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Anyone looking at the three month chart below (courtesy of SharePrice.co.uk) could be forgiven for assuming that June contained a profit warning or the like for Berkeley Mineral Resources. But not so! Just another month in the life of an AIM-listed minerals share.     In fact, since June of this year, in this amateur’s [...]

Fuelled by the possibility that the US may soon default on its debt – to avoid default, US politicians have to agree to raise the country’s debt limit by 2nd August 2011 – coupled with the imminent announcement of the European Banking Authority’s stress tests on 90 banks across Europe, it was a bumper period [...]

A couple of weeks ago now – prior to a little mid-summer rest and relaxation – I penned a post (with one foot out the door) in which I fleetingly mentioned the fact we’d liquidated a number of holdings and topped up on one in particular I thought a little over-sold. There wasn’t any great [...]

Lots going on, but I’m heading off – on holidays that is. A midsummer week of island-hopping in Scandinavia. Now if that sun would just re-appear. I’m usually not one to scare too easily but today – with a week away from the keyboard coming up and the way things are heading on AIM – [...]

With AIM shares pretty much taking a beating across the board, it’s a good time to keep an eye out for an AIM bargain or two. I’m not saying dive in head-first for all you’re worth, but there’s a lot of very good companies that have probably drifted into the over-sold category that are worth [...]


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