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MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Investors on solid ground after flotation of Van Elle

Last week's shock victory for Donald Trump in the US Presidential election is likely to fuel market volatility over the coming months, particularly when combined with persistent concerns about the impact of Brexit on UK businesses. But Van Elle should deliver strong growth, despite political and economic uncertainty. The company is a highly successful, hard-working British business, specialising in ground engineering services that make it safer and easier to build railways, roads, houses and a range of other buildings.

Profit for the year to the end of September is set to be about £495 million compared with £686 million last year.

Bruno Monteyne, of stockbroker Bernstein and a former Tesco director, has warned that growth at the discounters is falling off a cliff and will peter out altogether over the next 18 months.

Britannia Hotels, owner of the famous Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, has recorded a huge leap in profits at its 52-strong chain.

Piccolo was founded two years ago by Italian Catherine Gazzoli, the former chief executive of Slow Food UK.

Speaking to The Mail on Sunday just hours after Trump's election victory, Stephen Moore outlined a vision for the US and world economy that will fuel fury among critics.

There will be many reasons some Americans voted for Trump (and Brexit). But I believe the great economic insecurity and a perception of unfairness is the underlying cause.

Shoppers hunting bargains are primed for a Black Friday frenzy with the number of orders expected to hit a record of almost ten million on the day.

Britain and the US would both benefit from a new open trade deal, Donald Trump's senior economic adviser told The Mail on Sunday this weekend.

The Prime Minister is expected to outline what relationship Whitehall is seeking sector-by-sector when she speaks to the Confederation of British Industry a week tomorrow.

Hazel Reynolds, who quit working as a journalist to turn a card game she invented in 2014 into a business, has sold 1,000 copies in a single day.

Should you invest in a VCT? Watch the Investing Show

Venture capital trusts offer generous income tax relief, tax-free dividends and the chance to strike it rich with early stage companies, yet remain something of a mystery to many investors. To find out more about what VCTs do and what they invest in, we invited Stuart Lewis, of Octopus Investments to join us on the Investing Show.

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Three arrested at top banks in what could be Britain's biggest-ever insider trading probe

The arrests are thought to be linked to the Panama Papers scandal. A probe is being carried out by the Financial Conduct Authority with support from the National Crime Agency.

A third of firms regard the availability of childcare as a key issue in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a British Chambers of Commerce survey of more than 1,600 business leaders.

Nasty Gal, founded by Sophia Amoruso, who was just 22 when the company was launched, enjoyed several years of rapid growth and toasted sales of over £80m at the height of its success.

The lender is fighting its way back to health after coming close to collapse in 2013, when a £1.5bn black hole was discovered in its accounts.

Banking shares rose across the world on hopes that Donald Trump would ditch tough rules introduced after the financial crisis.

Midas recommended the shares in August 2013 when they were 19p. Today the stock, traded on the junior ISDX market, has almost tripled to 56p.

Shares in the ingredients firm fell heavily on Wednesday as Donald Trump won the US election. Fears about the company's exposure to Mexico saw the stock fall more than 12 per cent.

Last year it was ten times bigger than pre-Christmas Cyber Monday in America and dwarves this country's sales and Black Friday online deals.

Mortgage lending rose 24 per cent to £1.5billion and businesses borrowed 13 per cent more than in the same period last year.

MARKETS COMMENT & ANALYSIS

Wall Street already is exuberant at Donald Trump's campaign commitment to sweep away legislation designed to usher in an era of safety and consumer protection for the financial markets. The Dodd-Frank act was intended to make sure abuses that led to the financial crisis never happen again. It runs to some 2,500 pages and is considered over-elaborate, costly and cumbersome. But presence on the statute books has not prevented American banks from bouncing back quickly from the nadir reached in the aftermath of the crisis. ...read

Janet Yellen's current term ends in 2018 so Trump will have the chance to pick a new chairman. In the interim the White House will have the chance to fill two vacancies and potentially a third - the person to head the new office of banking supervision. The immediate question is what will the US central bank do next month? The uncertainty of the transition to a new, very different, presidency may now weigh on the minds of members of the interest rate-setting Open Market Committee. ...read

Instead of wittering on about the need to preserve the single market and the customs union and wearing sackcloth and ashes chief executive George Weston is gearing up Britain's food manufacturing and selling Ryvita crackers, Twinings tea and Ovaltine from Mexico to Australia. ...read

Marks & Spencer is set to close some stores. This is good news because it is a tentative sign that the group is grappling with the real strategic challenges that it - and the whole retail sector - are facing. For years the strategy of shop groups was simple: open more stores because that will increase sales and so profits will rise. ...read

The shares are 595½p and should move higher as boss Richard Harpin expands the company both here and overseas. Richard Harpin began running businesses while he was a teenager, starting out with a mail-order fly-fishing tackle venture and moving on to create Hookers, which made earrings from the same fishing kit. ...read

There are many reasons why people might be concerned about a Donald Trump victory - from his attitude to women to his endorsement last week by the Ku Klux Klan, writes ITV News economics editor NOREENA HERTZ. But what would a Trump presidency mean for the world economy? I fear we would wake up on Wednesday facing a global recession within the next 18 months. ...read

Three arrested at top banks in what could be Britain's biggest-ever insider trading probe

The arrests are thought to be linked to the Panama Papers scandal. A probe is being carried out by the Financial Conduct Authority with support from the National Crime Agency.

MARKET DATA

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Motorists' champion and model Jodie Kid is an ambassador for a new industry-wide service: the Motor Ombudsman which covers new and used cars, service, repair, finance and warranties.

The gold miner is feeling the full effects of Trumponomics as it has a project based in Mexico, which could suffer under the US president-elect's plans for high tariffs and high walls.

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