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The Share Centre wins Best Execution-only Broker Award

Retail stockbroker, The Share Centre, scooped the award for Best Execution-only Broker Tuesday night at Shares Magazine's 2008 Awards ceremony, held at Grosvenor House Hotel.

Investors capitalise as Taylor Wimpey's predicament continues

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "Our customers continued to trade heavily this week with a strong focus on UK housebuilder, Taylor Wimpey, whose tales of woe have showed no sign of improving, despite a glimmer of hope from the Bank of England when it cut rates back to 3%.

Calls for more international cooperation to tackle boiler room fraud

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has called on regulators and law enforcement agencies from around the world, to help tackle a fraud that reaps about £300 million yearly from the UK public, for criminals.

Tens of thousands of teenagers set to invest in shares

Financial education charity, the ifs School of Finance, confirmed that record numbers of 14-19 year olds will take part in the 2008-9 ifs Student Investor competition.

Investors react to mixed fortunes for some of the largest blue chips

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "Our customers continued to trade heavily this week with heavy focus on buying shares, particularly in Barclays which accounted for 39% of our top ten buys as customers looked to bulk up on the stock.

The stock market has further to fall

According to a poll of investors by money website Fool.co.uk, the stock market still has further to fall. Three out of four investors (76%) think the market has yet to bottom, and could drop further.

The black horse falls out of favour while the eagle is flying high

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "As the economic crisis bites further into both the UK and more far flung markets, you might have expected nervous investors to quit shares for more safer havens. Yet, once again buy trades by TD Waterhouse customers have outpaced the number of sells this week, this time by 57%, up 11% compared to last week.

Despite falling markets confident investors have faith in the FTSE

Despite fears of a looming recession as the FTSE hits its lowest level in over five years, research from Barclays Stockbrokers reveals investors are still retaining their confidence in the market.

TD Waterhouse customers resist the pressure to sell out

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "This week, the general trend among TD Waterhouse customers has been to buy stock, with top ten buys outnumbering top ten sales by 33%, while trades in Royal Bank of Scotland have remained level compared to last week's buying frenzy.

TD Waterhouse customers jump in on the rescue plan

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "Slumping stock prices of the UK's leading banks saw our customers' trading activity predominantly focused on the distressed banking sector - 79% of top ten trades are with the banks this week with RBS topping the table, taking 32% of buys and a quarter of sales.

How safe is my money? How safe is my bank?

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "Exceptional circumstances call for exceptional measures, so before we look at this week's top ten trades I wanted to address two questions that appear to be on the lips of many retail investors during these extraordinary times, namely - how safe is my money, and how safe is my bank?

Investors bounce back from B&B with some insightful trading

Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse comments: "TD Waterhouse customers will have had mixed feelings to the news that Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is to have its mortgage and loans book nationalised and the bank's savings business and branches transferred to the Banco Santander group (Santander).

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