Analysis of Euronext

Company: Euronext

ISIN NL0006294274 | WKN A115MJ

Business: A Dutch operator of stock exchanges. They are currently operating stock exchanges in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and in the UK. They claim they are the #1 listing venue in continental Europe, #1 cash trading venue in continental Europe and #2 listed derivatives trading venue in continental Europe.

Active: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.

P/E: 27.2

Comment: I was a bit annoyed by the company because on their home page they only have the annual report for 2014 available. Weak!

Analysis of Lancashire

Company: Lancashire

ISIN BMG5361W1047 | WKN A0HM5W

Business: A Bermuda insurance and reinsurance company. They are especially focused on four segments: Property, Energy, Aviation and finally Marine. 

Active: World Wide 

P/E: 8.0

Stocks of Interest: January 2016

In December 2015 the share prices kept dropping and now in January 2016 even more so. This means to me that contrarian times are here and it is time to go shopping! Unlucky for me, as I have mentioned before, I need to build up my cash buffer as preparation for a potential unemployment period during this year.

I am currently late with plenty of things and then I do not only mean with this report but also from analysis requests due to that I have a terrible cold and have not managed to find the energy to write articles as I would have liked. I am now feeling a bit better and will hopefully get started slowly again.

Summary of December 2015

Life is running away. Christmas is already gone (I was Jultomten!), New Years Eve is also gone and as always no fireworks were bought since I consider that to be very similar to burning money. The one week skiing that I bought the snow chains, ski and ski boots for are also gone. Left is however five days of additional vacation and those I will enjoy as much as I can.

During the vacation I started to bring up the topic of investing for my brothers oldest child. He is eight years old but not yet ready so I guess I will have to wait. I told him that one that I will teach him about investing. He was not too excited about it when I said it. Happily he got a long life ahead of him and we are investing for him until his investing interest has awoken.

German inside trading: December 2016

To be honest with you all I have not followed the stock market very well during the last month. It was simply too much with work, studies and well... buying Christmas gifts and being on vacation at least in the end of it and all this combined made me less interested in following daily movements on the stock market.

For the previous report please click on German inside trading: November 2015.

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