Forbes: How A Small Scottish Biotech Firm Could Win A Decisive Battle Against Cancer?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A small Scottish-based biotech company could soon win a decisive battle in the war against cancer. 

NuCana, led by biotech industry veteran Hugh Griffith, is developing therapies that could radically change cancer treatment. Despite only being founded in 2008 the firm has already captured the interest of investors with good results from clinical trials of the compounds. Read more here.

Barron's: Get Ready for Big Oil Stocks in Europe to Rise if Prices Do

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Favorable valuations, a change in investor outlook, and a surge in oil prices could lift the stocks of major European oil producers.

“If you have a broad rally in energy, I think it is safe to say that both European and American investors will look at some of the big oil names globally and find them interesting,” says Steve Chiavarone, a portfolio manager at Federated Investors in New York. “Those companies with bigger dividends will become attractive again.” Read more here.

Korn Ferry: Europe’s Rattling Political Power Plays

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The upheaval keeps building up across western Europe’s political landscape. Germany’s center-right parties, which the country’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, represents, are increasingly getting squeezed at the polls. In Italy, the coalition government is having trouble developing a budget. And across the English Channel, the UK prime minister’s cabinet is in turmoil while Ireland’s president faces five challengers in an election on Friday.

Pundits have their own views on each country’s issues, but private-sector leaders are likely to see a simple lesson across the board: When the landscape changes, fundamentals become ever more important. Read more here.

Korn Ferry: Picketing for Equal Pay

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For years, it was a topic that would surface in studies and headlines, but rarely beyond. Then several countries began to get serious, requiring companies to report differences in gender pay gaps or trying to close it themselves. A few big firms spent millions trying to make up the pay difference between men and women in the same job. Read more here.

Forbes Russia: Time to Bet on Putin

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Санкции против Ирана, который скоро будут введены, а также невысокие котировки будут способствовать повышению стоимости акций российских компаний в краткосрочной перспективе. Хотя это ралли может продлиться недолго, там тем не менее существует возможность получить некоторое количество легких денег.

Read more here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Barron's: It’s Time to Bet on British Stocks — Even With Brexit Looming

By SIMON CONSTABLE

It’s an opportune time to bet on British stocks.

The country’s economy is strong, stocks are inexpensive relative to those in the U.S., and when the Brexit drama passes, the pound sterling should rise.

Investors playing a likely rally should purchase the iShares FTSE 250 exchange-traded fund (ticker: MIDD.UK). Read more here.

Forbes: Time To Bet On Putin?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Love him or hate him, now might be the time to place a bet on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Not exactly him, but rather the Russian stock market. Read more here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

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