Reading the runes in the retail sector

In an era where digital communication dominates, the enduring appeal of a handwritten card might seem quaint. Yet, for Card Factory (LSE: CARD), the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greeting cards,

Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

The combined market capitalisation of the Magnificent Seven group of US mega-cap stocks – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta , Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla– is now over $22trn, meaning these seven stocks ma

The strategy employed by Temple Bar is known as value investing. This is the process of buying a company’s stock for less than its true worth, or intrinsic value. By buying at a discount, this strateg

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

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