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Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 30 March 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: Recent market jitters and last week’s mixed reaction over the Chancellor’s Budget have calmed this week. However, it hasn’t all been good news in the telecoms and technology sectors.
Trade online now and pay later with T20 extended settlement
TD Waterhouse, one of the UK’s largest brokers, today announces new extended settlement periods up to 20 working days for online traders.
Barclays Stockbrokers enters partnership with the National Trust
Barclays Stockbrokers has announced that it has entered into a three year partnership deal with the National Trust.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 23 March 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: This week saw the Chancellor deliver his eleventh and possibly swan song budget with much attention given to headline cuts in corporation tax aimed at boosting the international competitiveness of the UK's tax system.
Investors still too bullish
Investors remain excessively bullish about short-term stock market returns despite the recent correction, warns Argonaut European fund manager Barry Norris.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 16 March 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: “As the banks’ reporting season finishes, interest remains high in Lloyds TSB and Barclays on the back of worries over the US sub-prime market which took hold across the Atlantic this week.
Local schools rise to the stock market challenge
Marks & Spencer Money sponsors enterprise education event for schools for the fourth year running.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 9 March 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: “After last Tuesday’s jitters in the global markets, investor activity has been busy this week, particularly amongst key UK players in the banking sector.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 2 March 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: “It has been a tough week for UK investors as global stocks plummeted on Tuesday night slicing over 36.2 billion pounds off share prices in the UK alone.
Fidelity comment on recent market volatility
In light of recent market volatility, Fidelity International's Director of Asset Allocation, Trevor Greetham, comments: "Markets that have risen a long way without a pause are at risk of sharp short-term corrections as we are seeing now. This can be healthy as unrealistic expectations are brought down to earth.
Bear market or just a correction?
The market downturn of the past couple of days is most likely to be a healthy correction in a longer term bull market, according to research conducted by Simon Ward of New Star Asset Management. The research examined the performance of the FTSE 100 following the three great bear markets of the twentieth century (1929-1932, 1936-1940 and 1972-1974), and applied their trends to the rally following the recent bear market of 2000-2003.
Correction in the Chinese market: profit-takers strike
By Gigi Chan, Far East & Asian Equity Fund Manager, Threadneedle Investments
Bristol school students pick up Best Stock Market Performance prize
A team of A-level students from Mangotsfield School in Bristol have performed better than almost 30,000 other teenagers from across the UK in the ifs Student Investor Challenge sponsored by Deutsche Bank and Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust.
Global stock market falls
Over the last couple of days world equity markets have fallen back sharply. “What is the cause and should we be concerned?” asks John Kelly, Abbey’s Head of Client Investment.
FSA plans would give foreign firms easy ride at expense of UK investors
The Consumer Panel has today written to the FSA to say that their proposals to amend the stock exchange listing rules for offshore investment companies threaten to undermine investor protection for the sake of attracting non UK based companies to list in the UK.