Sunday is a good time to sit back, read, and forget about shares. Put the kettle on, find a comfy chair. You have the time, don't you?

In this graphic, we illustrate the top 10 emerging markets according to their foreign direct investment momentum in 2024. 

It's time for the ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz..  Last week, due to an accounting error, there were only nine questions instead of the usual ten. So there are eleven this week. There are still no prizes! And remember, no Googling!

Here are the most read articles and the most listened-to Bearcasts over the past seven days. The most read non-Tom article last week is Nigel Somerville with The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Tries And Fails To Push Further Higher at No 12 or No 20 including Bearcasts. 

Some Bearcast listeners – like me – are still having trouble getting new Bearcasts  with the Apple Podcast player on iPhones and computers. This is some sort of Apple issue – the secret Bearcast feed works fine for everyone else. So I have created a temporary workaround until Apple pulls its finger out of its ear.

Hello Share Bashers. Week after week, the most traded share in Blighty is the Black Horse Bank. That deserves an examination by this most respected of financial websites. One explanation of the usual trading frenzy is the negligible spread. And that’s because - and how’s this for a circular argument - the shares are traded a lot. But there’s another reason. Most analysts reckon that at just over 50p the shares are a bargain. But not all do, which is why it’s worth probing again what the arguments are.

Most recently on Xeros Technology (XSG) last year with the shares rising to 4.15p, I wrote agreement with “potential to deliver substantial revenues”… so also the potential not to & how’s that balance sheet? – concluding that it was looking towards a funding crunch AGAIN and still a Sell. The shares most recently closed at 1.85p and now a “Fundraising”…