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  • BusinessAOL

    'Black Monday' for traders as FTSE 100 collapses nearly 8%

    An all-out oil war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has led to stock markets and oil prices tanking around the world. As investors already deal with the fallout from coronavirus, the Middle Eastern oil giant announced plans to flood markets with

    2-min read
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    FTSE at record highs

    If you're over 55 and are considering cashing your pension savings in, you might be in for a pleasant surprise. 2017 has so far seen the FTSE 100 reach record highs, so many people have more money in their pension savings than they thought.

    3-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    Two investment trends shaped 2016, can they survive in 2017?

    Happy New Year! If you take a look around the press, and even more so the internet, you'll get the impression that a lot of people are grateful to see the back of 2016. But for equity investors at least, it was a pretty good year... 2016

    5-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    Here's how the top 12 predictions did in 2016

    Every January I like to make some predictions for the year ahead. The following December I like to follow up. See also: Are we heading for a hard Brexit? See also: The 4 biggest threats to your wealth in 2017 We get out the red pen, look back

    8-min read
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    When will the next bull market start?

    Throughout the history of the world economy, asset prices have endured bull markets and bear markets. It could be the case that we witnessed one of the shortest-ever bear markets in history recently when the FTSE 100 fell into bear market

    3-min read
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    Brexit undermining small caps? Baloney!

    I don't get why the prospect of a possible EU referendum this year should be hammering UK smaller companies, but it's having a visible impact on share prices at the moment. The volatility in the markets has been affecting small and

    4-min read
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    Why I'm more bullish on the FTSE 250 than the FTSE 100

    Since the turn of the century, the FTSE 100 has fallen by 15%. Clearly, that's hugely disappointing and investors quizzed on New Year's Eve 1999 regarding the prospects for the index would have been unlikely to make that prediction.

    4-min read