| | Sunday 8 July 2012 A MESSAGE FROM TOM Most of our actions as investors are driven by human psychology. We like to think that we are all rational human beings and act accordingly. We are not. How we feel about life is a mirror for how we can feel about shares.
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The Week Ahead Recruiters, house builders, AB Foods
Next week sees two big recruitment agencies, Michael Page and Hays, update the market, and if Thursday's report from smaller rival Robert Walters is anything to go by, the news may not be good.
Better news is expected from house builders Bovis and Galliford Try if recent trading statements from sector peers Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey are any sort of guide.
Associated British Foods, which on Friday announced the acquisition of the Elephant Atta ethnic flour brand from Premier Foods, updates the market on Thursday. Attention will probably be on the group's Primark clothing chain, as usual, but the Elephant Atta purchase is a useful reminder that there is more to the company than Primark.
Panmure Gordon expects the tone of the trading update to be similar to the previous report with "strong earnings growth expected to be delivered for the year to September, driven by particularly impress growth in the Sugar division."
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BOOK OF THE WEEK By Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
A book review by Ross Jones The majority of us will have heard of Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Peter Lynch, but less of us will be familiar with Benjamin Graham or David Dodd. Peter Train in The Money Masters (1980) described Graham as the 'century's (and perhaps history's) most important thinker on applied portfolio investment, taking it from an art, based on impressions, inside information, flair, to a proto-science, an orderly discipline'. But who were Graham and Dodd?
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ALTERNATIVE BET OF THE WEEK Your local betting shop may be great for the footie, but you must go online for the truly weird bets.
This week: When will Tom Cruise remarry?
Singles only. Applies to the year that Tom Cruise marries again. Must be to someone that he was not previously married to. Must be confirmed by official spokesperson for Tom Cruise. PP decision final.
| 2012 or 2013 | 5/1 | | 2014, 2015, or 2016 | 7/4 | | 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020 | 11/8 | | After 2020 | 3/1 |
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