How low can Santander shares fall?

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Santander fell over 4% on Friday. Is this creating a buying opportunity? The credit crisis has not been good  to banking stocks and the recent crisis on the Euro and growth issues surround China has put enourmous strain on all things – especially european. Bank shares are miles from their market peak before the credit crunch. [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

Buying shares in a falling market

It could be a good time to buy shares depending on your perspective. As shares cheapen, there could be a golden buying opportunity to buy great value shares. What should you do? 1. Pick shares with a decent dividend. This will limit your downside in the event of further falls. And at least provided there [...]

Market turmoil as shares plunge.

Worldwide markets have been gripped by panic as what appears to be a severe correction is underway. All the leading share indicies are down including the FTSE 100, with double digit percentage losses in the last week. With no sign of abating, all markets are continuing their slide downward as the fear of recession grips [...]

How does the share market work?

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The stock market system is an avenue for the trading of shares of stock of listed corporations. As a corporation is formed, its initial shareholders are able to acquire shares of stock from the point of subscription when a company is created. When a company starts to be traded to the public, the primary market [...]

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