
Dear Reader, My electricity supplier has sent me four energy-saving light bulbs. I suppose I should be grateful, but I am not. I hate these things. They are big and ugly. They give us about as much light as a flickering candle. Medical experts reckon that they ...
European Shares
You are on page 1 of 1To get a feel at how Europe’s doing, it’s worth looking at the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the region’s manufacturing sector. This is the most crucial ‘turning point’ indicator for the economy, as manufacturing represents nearly a quarter of total ...
Pharmaceuticals have been a great place to invest over the past 12 months. Whilst the FTSE has been battered, money has flowed into the sector for its classic defensive qualities. Recession or no recession, you don’t stop buying drugs. Understand, though, that ...
Finally, a nation with a little backbone...a little integrity...a little good sense. And guess what, it’s that dreary socialist refrigerator – Sweden. Asked to bailout its GM-owned automaker, Saab, the country’s Prime Minister just said ‘no.’ Good for him... ...
You remember that famous cover story of the New York Daily News? New York was nearly bankrupt in 1975. The city asked the feds for a bailout. To his everlasting credit, Gerald Ford had the backbone to just say ‘no’. Had he given the city a bailout Ford might have ...
It’s times like these, when everything around the world has been sold off aggressively, that you come across apparently quite staggering value in small cap shares. You see a share selling for pennies, have a look at the company’s assets and find that there is ...
Bowing to peer pressure from Eurocentric readers, today’s comment focuses squarely on opportunities in European indexes, or should that be ‘bourses.’ It seems that European stocks are at their cheapest levels in six years and the French and German stocks top ...
As a member of The Zurich Club, you know the potential of investing in shares outside the UK. But what are the tax implications of global investing? It’s a frequent question at The Zurich Club events, and a problem faced by a growing number of smart British ...
European Shares
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