Despite bad news from every direction, global stockmarkets showed strong rises in the third quarter of 2017. The UK…not so much. If you spend any time at all thinking about the recent news stories to emerge over the last three months, , you might think that there is no good news left in the world. […]
Rates on a range of National Savings & Investments products will fall from 1 May. National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has announced that it will be cutting interest on four of its variable rate products from 1 May. These follow the Bank of England’s base rate cut to 0.25% which took place in August 2016. […]
At the start of a new year it’s common for financial pundits to predict the value of the FTSE 100 by the end of the year. Seeing what the experts think and why can make for interesting reading, but by the end of the year it has been forgotten in favour of new predictions for […]
At first sight, the results from the world’s main share markets in 2016 appear mixed, but that’s before currency effects are considered. World Index Changes in 2016 FTSE 100 +14.4% FTSE All-Share +12.5% Dow Jones Industrial +13.4% Standard & Poor’s 500 +9.5% Nikkei 225 +0.4% Euro Stoxx 50 (€) +0.7% Shanghai Composite -12.3% MSCI Emerging […]
