First group plc shares slide

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The UK travel and transport operator shares dropped to nearly the lowest in three years because of challenging trading conditions. Continuing worldwide trading difficulties are hitting margins and the share price, with the steepest decline since Jan 2009. The shares currently offer a 10% dividend.

UK Stockmarket decline

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The uk stockmarket fell for a third day in a row as Greece comes under renewed fire over the European crisis. The FTSE 100 dropped to its lowest levek since the end of Jan 2012 as Greece looks to increase the ceiling on its borrowing.

Weakness in the eurozone hits world markets

The problems in greece are excacerbating the stock market situation with european markets down this morning in response to the fact that greece may finally default.

What is the FTSE 100?

Many are often confused by what the FTSE 100 means. Actually its really very simple, it is a measure of the 100 largest companies in the UK by value. It provides a simple index aiming to give a measure of the health of uk listed companies in one single number.

Google to get live stock market feed from LSE

For retail investors, live finance data will be a great benefit as it will show the very latest data and trade prices which will mean up to date.portfolio prices and will probably spawn a whole new plethora of tools for managing finance.

How do stock markets work?

Ever wondered what the difference between stocks and shares are? Both terms can be used interchangeably, and mean the same thing. However one often refers to the ‘share’market as the stock market partly through tradition. The basis of the stock or share market is that investors purchase shares of the company and can then be [...]

What is an ETF?

An exchange traded fund or ETF is an entity listed on the stock market. That means for example that you can trade it. Its not quite the same as the usual stock or share that relates to your average company. There is no actual company behind the scenes but the ETF could track a company [...]

Investing an a FTSE 100 ETF

One of the smartest ways of investing in stocks and shares is via a tracker fund that aims to capitalize on gains to the average of a bunch of shares. One of the most popular indexes is the FTSE 100, and you can invest in this index by purchasing an ishares ETF tracker which can [...]

How to invest £70,000

To Invest £70k, here is what I would encourage you to think about. Going back to the original point, what every investor wants is to be able to add the maximum added value to what ever asset or entity that they purchase. Whoever said balance or diversification is half right, you could do this or [...]

Warren buffet says gold is not that precious

The legendary investor Warren Buffet cannot understand why anyone would invest in gold which is an asset that generates no income and no wealth. Buffet say that if you were to pool all the gold reserves in the world together you could buy several billion dollar companies that generate billions in income whilst gold earns [...]

Get rich schemes, here’s how they work

Are you ever tempted by the offers of instant wealth in a letter from unknown people offering you anything from courses to materials on how to achieve it for a certain fee. We list some of the common schemes here: 1. Making money online. Well yes you can make money online. After all this is [...]

Saving cash by investing in high dividend stocks

Saving money might not be the highest priority on your todo list but we all need to be saving for a rainy day. Whilst many are struggling just to make ends meet, the question is how do you make money given the poor returns from putting money in a bank account? One way is to [...]

House hold name stocks paying more than 10%

With falls in stockmarket share prices, some shares now look really cheap compared with their dividend payouts. Two well known listed companies are paying out dividends of over 10%. Compared to paltry rates in the bank, investing in shares could over as much as 5 times or even 100 times the tiny interest rates on [...]

Ftse 100 heads towards 5,600.

The major uk share index is finding it’s way to 5600, just a week after reaching lows of 5,100. Hopefully this stability in the marketplace will help more inward investment as confidence regains.

Shares pick up investor confidence returns.

The share market is showing signs of recovery as more investors put money back into the markets. The markets such as the ftse 100 are still a long way from the highs of the year, but after their recent rout it looks like things are stabilising.

Thomas cook shares nosedive

The holiday group shares have taken yet another nose dive leaving the battered company with even less working capital.

Ftse 100 falls as banking crisis continues

The uk’s leading share index suffered yet more falls as the european crisis has created more economic woes meaning more people are ditching shares in favour of less risky assets. Some shares such as rbs are close to their all time lows. Rbs or the royal bank of scotland is hovering around the 17p mark [...]

Global crisis creates more market turmoil

Yet more worries over the euro zone are sending shares even lower as investors pull more cash out of the market and attempt to preserve capital and avert money being lost to a recession. This comes after recent rises in most global stock exchanges around the planet.

Ftse 100 hits 5,300

The major share index is back up on hopes that the euro crisis can be avoided and that economies around the globe will recover resulting in investors ploughing money back into UK equities.

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