Articles tagged "stock market"
Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 6th July 2012
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Welcome to the first week of July, and happy Independence Day to all our US readers! The big news of the week is, of course, the continuing Libor scandal which has engulfed Barclays, taking Chief Executive Bob Diamond with it at the start of the week. More details below. Barclays’ Bob quits over Libor row [...]
Tags: Bank of England, banks, house prices, housing market, stock market
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Stock Market Predictions 2012
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Stock Market Predictions for 2012 – it’s Fear and Greed Again It’s almost as difficult to avoid New Year predictions at the start of January as it is to avoid tinsel at Christmas. Particularly predictions about the Stock Market. Newspapers are full of experts predicting what will happen to the Stock Market in 2012 and [...]
Tags: FTSE100, investing, stock market
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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 16th December 2011
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Week ending 16th December 2011 Christmas is just around the corner, but good news in the financial world is still in short supply. Unemployment up, retail sales down. But the good news for some is that Mary Portas is championing the cause of the High Street with her report on the state of Britain’s shops. [...]
Tags: banks, car insurance, FTSE100, stock market
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Financial News Round Up for 23rd September 2011
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Week ending 23rd September 2011 It’s been another week dominated by fluctuating world markets. With the FTSE100 first making some gains after the losses of the last few weeks, towards the end of the week, it was heading back down towards 5000. This was also the week the Liberal Democrat conference took place in Birmingham [...]
Tags: banks, FTSE100, house prices, inflation, stock market
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Financial News Round Up 12th August
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Weekly news round up for the week ending 12th August 2011 • Pensioners forced to sell homes With annuity rates low and incomes squeezed, there has been an increase in the number of people aged over 60 who have sold their homes to move into rented accommodation to stretch their income. A survey conducted by [...]
Tags: Bank of England, FTSE100, house prices, investing, stock market
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Capital Protected Investments
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Make money when the market falls With the market in turmoil it is difficult for investors to know where to turn to. Investors are subjected to considerable noise, so much so, they don’t know who to believe. No sooner will a positive sentiment arise than a negative view of the same noisy information makes the [...]
Tags: FTSE100, investing, investments, stock market, structured products
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US Debt Ceiling
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
When will the market recover? What is your view on the U.S. debt ceiling and its impact on investments as my pensions and ISAs have taken a pounding? A month or so ago we reiterated the need to be invested in real markets that have exposure to companies with real earnings and real profits, as [...]
Tags: debt, investing, investment, ISAs, pensions, stock market
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Cheap Investments
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Cheap investments – get back to bed Just how inefficiently can someone invest money? I’ve always been told to make columns meaningful. Talk about the sizzle not the sausage, talk about how fast the car goes, not how many piston things it has! I have assessed how most people are currently investing via the calls [...]
Tags: funds, investing, investments, stock market, tax
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Past investment performance
Monday, April 11th, 2011
My financial adviser is telling me to invest into a range of funds based on their investment performance last year. Is there any relationship between last year’s investment performance and the future performance? A turkey sits all year with the belief everyone cares about it. As each day goes past, it believes it can’t get [...]
Tags: funds, investing, investment, investments, risk, stock market
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Understanding the markets
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
It used to be really easy to understand the markets. You could read sentiment and marry that with reasonable economic data but today it’s a great big bun fight that makes it complicated for some. Why do we have inflation when most countries are fighting their way out of a depressive state, when the world’s [...]
Tags: commodities, quantitative easing, stock market
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