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Investments | Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS.L)
Buying in a bear market When there are more sellers than buyers in the market, traders call it a bear market and when the buyers outnumber the sellers, they call it a bull market. This appears to be a...
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Investments | Zopa and ISAs
Zopa I’ve been with Zopa (Zone Of Possible Agreement) for two years now and have been getting a better interest rate than with any bank. The interest is taxable, but at over 6% is still better than...
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Investments | Death or Glory
I bought shares on the stock market a few years ago because I thought there would be a take over bid on a company. There was and I thought I was going to make money, until a large investor blocked the...
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What would you do if you won the lottery?
What would you use the money for if you won a million or more on the lottery? In the old days the richest person and most influential member of the community was the Lord of the Manor. You could buy a...
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Investments | Royal Mail
It seems that the General Public offer for Royal Mail share is already over-subscribed. “The price at which Royal Mail shares will be offered is expected to be between 260p and 330p per Ordinary share...
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Preparing for financial disaster
We all have expectations, but things don’t always go to plan. We can lose our jobs, have investments fail, have disasters on holiday or have a unexpected expense that leads to spiralling debt. Can we...
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Learn to invest and win prizes
There are a few fantasy investment games on the internet, but I found one that seems quite good and so started playing the Big Deal stock market challenge this week. There is a prize of £10,000 for...
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Finance Friday: Investment risks
Differing investments have different risks. The higher the risk the bigger the return investors expect. A savings account at a bank in the UK is protected by a government guarantee up to £85,000 and...
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Alternative investments
Many people think they can’t afford to invest for the future, but even very modest investments soon mount up. There are many different ways to invest and different things to invest in. People invest...
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Investments: Royal Sun Alliance (RSA)
I usually do an investment post when I make a new investment on the stock market. On my watch-list for some time has been the troubled insurance group, Royal Sun Alliance. I had a discount on dealing...
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Investments: Investing in peace
I’m not having a good week with my investments on the stock exchange. There are various reasons for the downturn in prices. One of the main reasons is the problems in Ukraine. Some people like...
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Finance Friday: Compound interest
Many people don’t understand compound interest and some people don’t even understand percentages. Compound interest isn’t too difficult, it simply means you get interest on the interest in the second...
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Investments: Supply and demand
Last week I wrote about the ‘rights issues’ I’ve been involved in on the stock market. A large amounts of shares were issued in Premier Foods and so the supply has increased. The price is dropping and...
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Investments: Easter
It’s Good Friday and so the stock market is closed for 4 days. It’s sunny where I am so it could be a nice weekend. Will traders and investors forget the market through the long weekend? I doubt it....
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Finance Friday: Finance and politics
Our finances and politics are inextricably linked. The latter keeps changing and so we have to try to keep up and take political policies into account when planning for the future and deciding on...
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Finance Friday: Black Friday
Today is Black Friday and people are fighting to get goods in major supermarkets. It seems it’s been chaos in Asda and Tesco as people go after 40 inch televisions. Are these the benefit claimants...
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New Year resolutions and goals
Goals for 2015 I took this photo yesterday, it was freezing, that’s ice on the lake. You might have noticed I’ve added some EXIF info from the camera and my copyright notice to the picture. That’s one...
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Politics and #investments #GE2015
The stock market has been a little rocky as investors wonder how the general election result will affect their investments. The minimum wage might go up and put a strain on those companies that have a...
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Predictions for 2016 #finance
We can never be sure what the future will hold, but I think this will be the year when inflation starts to creep up again. Competition in many areas such as the supermarkets was fierce in 2015. The...
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January on a budget #thrifty
You can buy things with money, but it also has other uses. Money to some people is power and to others it’s security. They feel secure in the knowledge that they can afford to enjoy Christmas and...
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