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Barclays stockbrokers reveals shareholder benefits with online guide
Over £500 off a new home, 20 per cent off Mulberry, 30 per cent off Eurotunnel routes are just some of the additional benefits available to the shareholders in a variety of UK listed companies.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 25 May 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: As the markets wind down for another bank holiday weekend, we look back at the key movers and shakers on the scene this week.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 18 May 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Telecoms giant BT is popular amongst TD Waterhouse customers this week after if was reported that pre-tax profits had grown by a quarter on last year.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 11 May 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Moving away from the story of ABN Amro and RBS, this week there is interest around the £8.76bn takeover bid for the news agency, Reuters, from the Canadian Thomson family. However, the city’s response to this news has been uncharacteristically reticent, with Reuters trading at a near 8 per cent discount on the offer price on Wednesday.
Teenagers investment pays off to beat 30,000 competitors
The 2007 ifs Student Investor Challenge sponsored by Deutsche Bank and Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust has been won by Metro, a team of four teenage boys from St. Pauls School in Barnes.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 4 May 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: The plot thickened over the ongoing tussle for ABN Amro between Barclays and RBS yesterday after a Dutch Court blocked ABN’s £10.5bn sale of its US banking business to the Bank of America. Investment group VEB asked the court to stop the sale of LaSalle, arguing that ABN shareholders should have been consulted on the deal.
HeidelbergCement may make offer for Hanson
The Board of HeidelbergCement AG (“HeidelbergCement”) notes the recent movements in Hanson’s share price.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 27 April 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Banking stocks dominated market talk once more this week as Royal Bank of Scotland upped the stakes in its bid for Dutch Bank ABN Amro. Monday saw Barclays agree to buy ABN in an all-share deal but the RBS-led consortium has since stepped in with a cash-and-shares proposal of $98 billion.
Gloomy ISA season as volatile stock markets keep private investors away
The dramatic volatility in February and March saw the FTSE 350 drop over 5% from peak to trough, before recovering to end the period 2% higher than the end of January. This masked a sharp difference in the performance of larger and smaller companies. Over the two months, the FTSE 100 rose 1.7% while the FTSE 250 rose 5.3%.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 20 April 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: It’s been an interesting week on the British high street. The spell of warm weather and sunshine seems to have added a spring to the step of both UK shoppers and investors.
Standard Life - unclaimed shares worth £261m
Standard Life has revealed that 220,000 former members (now shareholders) have yet to claim around 83 million shares following the company's demutualisation and flotation in July 2006. This amounts to 3.9 percent of Standard Life plc.
Charles Stanley experts comment as FTSE 100 breaks 6500 level
The six-year high of the FTSE 100 index is good news for investors and is accompanied by some strong indicators of future stock market growth, according to investment experts at Charles Stanley:
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 13 April 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: With spirits lifted by the Easter break, our investors return to the markets with renewed vigour this week. Oil giant BP has enjoyed strong trading as reports flare over a possible shareholder revolt over the pay package of outgoing BP chairman Lord Browne.
Should investors Sell in May and go away?
According to an old stock market adage investors should "sell in May and go away, come again on St. Leger Day" (mid September) or in a US variation St. Leger Day is replaced by Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 6 April 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: With Easter approaching Woolworths has been popular this week, not only for its seasonal confectionary but also attracting attention following the news that it could be subject to a competition probe by the UK Office of Fair Trading.