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Interactive Investor Blog 2.0
Have you ever left a comment on our blog and forgotten all about it, oblivious to all the replies you might have received? No more. Tim’s put a small box under the comment form. Tick it when you comment and the blog will automatically send you a notification every time somebody else comments on the [...]
The Dow since 1920
It’s to indexes what the QWERTY keyboard is to computers. Because it only has 30 constituents, weighted by price, not capitalisation, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is not an ideal market barometer, but it’s the most widely reported index and it has a very long history.
As well as price, Valueline’s chart (Dow Jones Industrial Average, [...]
What is the future of finance?
A big question, and I don’t have an answer… yet. But a post on the Zopa blog by it’s founder and UK chief executive James Alexander suggests one future. Zopa, like Interactive Investor, uses the Internet to help the guy who wants to help himself. He quotes the shadow chancellor, George Osbourne:
“With all these profound [...]
Correction: Taking the market’s temperature
Hi folks, There was an error in the blog I just posted. It was only there momentarily but if you use RSS, you’ll have wrong version in your reader so please come to the site to read it. This is the correct text:
Currently the 10-year world treasury yield stands at 4.6% and the MSCI world [...]
Stop demonizing shareholders!
The markets are not perfect and neither are the fund managers driving investment decisions nor the managers of companies seeking to maximize shareholder value, but I will take a free market any day over controlled five-year planning. A financial institution should know better.
Tom Glocer, chief executive of Reuters, on Nationwide’s new ad. campaign, which [...]
Pouring money into digital, sucking it out of newspapers
Last week in New York:
“I think we’ve got to pour some money into digital… There’s so much going on on the Internet. We’ve got to find new ways and new business models to get revenues. Or else the world is going to be owned by Google.”
Rupert Murdoch in the Wall Street Journal, explaining what he [...]
Facing the economic facts
The Adam Smith institute says UK media is vapid. It churns out commentary about how people feel, but too rarely presents economic facts:
How much more effective our public spending would be… if the familiar cry for ‘more resources’ were routinely coupled with the idea of ‘opportunity cost’…. And how much less would be squandered on [...]
The Lewis Hamilton of investors
Third in Australia, second in Malaysia, second in Bahrain. It’s never happened before in Formula 1, but Lewis Hamilton, has won a place on the podium in his first three motor races. The fact that he’s a Brit makes his sporting achievement all the more remarkable. No doubt he put lots of work into lesser [...]
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