Should you be a micro entrepreneur
Have you ever thought you’d be an entrepreneur but thought you’d need a lot of cash to start up then become a micro entrepreneur where you use a relatively small amount of cash to start a business. Such businesses can be started using existing platforms such as ebay to buy, sell and trade. You might [...]
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 [...]
Record low interest rates boost borrowers
Interestingly the Daily Express ran a headline this past week suggesting that interest rates will remain at record low levels for the foreseable future. This is potentially very good for borrowers and those with mortgages especially as the expected payments on a mortgage dwindle. Whether savings will be passed on to standard loans is another [...]
Have we seen the worst of the financial crisis?
Futures in the US market are down as more share sell offs are expected. The markets continue their turmoil as investors consider their positions in the wake of more bad news and with nothing positive to buoy the markets a slight decline maybe evident despite a day of mixed trading yesterday.
FTSE 100 heads below 5000 mark
The recent turmoil has pushed the leading share index below 5,000 this morning. The rapid selling of many shares has led to a recent downwards trend which seems to have considerable momentum driving forward further selling. The FTSE 100 nervously awaits the opening of the US markets and readies itself for a talk from the [...]
Italy in panic…the financial crisis continues.
As if the existing and european crisis was not enough, the contagion spreads and the focus now moves to Italy. We await monday’s opening on the market to see what is going to happen, but right now the ECB is considering buying Italy’s bonds to help move the markets in a positive way.
