There are plenty of financial forecasts knocking around at this time of year, but the most entertaining are the 10 deliberately outrageous predictions from Saxo Bank. These are intended to flag up the outlier events with the most potential to move the markets. You can read them all here.
The one that caught my eye was number eight on the list: "Despite Trump, the Mexican peso soars – The market has drastically overestimated Donald Trump's true intention or even ability to crack down on trade with Mexico, allowing the beaten-down peso to surge."
This is probably the ultimate contrarian bet given Trump's fierce anti Mexican stance, which he first made public in June 2015 when he announced his candidacy for the presidency: "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall."
by Zak Mir | Trading| 1 mins. to read Stanley Gibbons (LON:SGI) was founded in 1856, but it would appear that the troubles at the stamp collecting group in the recent past have been worthy of a Dickensian novel.
With 2016 almost behind us and the Christmas holidays just around the corner, there will soon be plenty of time to spend with family but also to re-think your investment portfolio
by Evil Knievil | Evil Diaries | 1 mins. to read MP Evans (LON:MPE) surprises me. It was always known that KLK would fail at the first acceptances stage with their 740p bid where the major shareholders (55%) had in mind perhaps 840p.
by Zak Mir | Trading | 1 mins. to read One of the New Year resolutions I am going for is to look for reversals in stocks and markets as early as possible. This is especially pertinent in the context of Cloudbuy (LON:CBUY).
by Victor Hill | Equities | 8 mins. to read In the January edition of the MI magazine I'm going to be talking about food. Specifically: why global agribusiness is likely to step centre-stage in the next decade.
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