It is not necessarily good news that the UK has become a magnet for companies that until recently might have floated their shares elsewhere
Category: Aggregator
This Is Money: Sainsbury’s Introduces Green Orange Bags
A supermarket is replacing its white carrier bags with orange versions made from 33% recycled material, it announced today
MoneyExpert: Report: Credit Card Rates Rising
Credit card companies have increased their interest rates to compensate for revenue they have lost as a result of lower default charges and rising bad debt, according to new research.
This Is Money: Enron’s Fastow Says UK Banks ‘knew Of Fraud’
Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow, who was senetnced to six years last night, has said that major UK banks were aware of his financial schemes
This Is Money: Dial-a-geek To Beat Techno-rage
BT has become the latest firm to launch a broadband home installation service in a bid to tap into the number of customers suffering techno-rage
This Is Money: 40 Years Of Campaigns
For four decades Daily Mail’s Money Mail team have been fighting for a fair deal for families trying to make the most of their finances
This Is Money: Standard Life Feels Flotation Pain
Standard Life’s 1.5m private shareholders are counting the cost as the assurer put aside an extra £100m to cover lost premiums and pension subs
Motley Fool: Price Cut
My next couple of weeks’ articles will be HYPerintensive. The next will be the second selection for HYP4 and after that the quarterly review of the three complete high yield portfolios up to the end of September. A load of number crunching so it’s another attack of the verbals this week following last week’s job. Also, I’ve had quite a spate of value trading selections in recent weeks too, so I don’t think readers can complain about my failing to write about specific value possibilities. Anyway today’s piece is about some of my views on the price of shares, principally for value players but some of it applies to some extent to HYPers too. It’s all stuff I’ve written about before but it may be informative for some, particularly beginners, to revisit it.
This Is Money: Brits Are Europe’s Debt-kings
Britons are responsible for a third of all unsecured debt in Western Europe, and on average borrow twice as much as their Continental cousins
Motley Fool: The Secrets Of Financial Success
According to a recent survey for “How to” website VideoJug, the skill that Britons would most like to acquire is how to make money.