My father used to ‘play the stock market’. He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord. He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a … Read more
We’ve been here before: the country goes into lockdown and the stock market shoots up. The start of the first national lockdown in late March marked the bottom of the coronavirus crash, England’s November lockdown played host to the vaccine rally, and yesterday the FTSE 100 added to its week’s gains with a 3.5 per … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Being a Boxing Day sloth and leaving investments alone can make for long-term wealth, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 10:18 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 10:18 GMT, 26 December 2020 Boxing Day used to be the day for long walks, for some, watching … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Airline shares are prepared for take-off in 2021, let’s hope there’s clear skies ahead, says JUSTIN URQUHART STEWART By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 December 2020 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 18 December 2020 What’s Happening? Locked down, fed up and thoroughly brassed off. Not exactly the … Read more
Over the weekend millions will push a laden trolley along the Covid-compliant one-way system of a supermarket, stocking up for Christmas and against possible Brexit shortages. Determined to celebrate despite the odds, the British are forecast to spend £12billion in supermarkets this month, £1.5billion more than last year, says retail consultancy Kantar. A record amount … Read more
From ignoring stock tips you hear down the pub, to shutting out political noise, Money Mail has drawn on experts’ experience to pro-vide invaluable pointers… Do your homework Peter Hargreaves, Hargreaves Lansdown and Blue Whale Capital co-founder Watch what your investments are doing and keep up with what is happening in the economy, and what … Read more
The second in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. The first, on open-ended funds in the environmental sector, is here. The UK’s energy mix is in the process of transitioning from coal and gas … Read more
The second in a series of articles investigating growth sectors, developing technologies and niche themes that adventurous private investors can back in their Isas – and how they might do so. The first, on open-ended funds in the environmental sector, is here. The UK’s energy mix is in the process of transitioning from coal and gas … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Investors shouldn’t shun the EU after Brexit, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 What’s Happening? Markets and investors love to focus on exciting successes. This year we have certainly had enough excitement, and … Read more
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3, that catchy hit by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, became a key theme song for the troubled early 1980s. Now, experts are adopting its sentiments for the rest of this decade, predicting that we are set for a sequel to Roaring Twenties, despite the economic crisis of 2020. The … Read more