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Is it a good time to buy into FTSE 100 shares? February 2018 was a bit of a roller coaster ride for UK share prices, following the drop in the Dow earlier in the month. Investors looking for a long-term investment home for money could well be nervous about buying shares in the UK. Investing in […]

Uk government considers revenue taxes on tech giants: The UK government is currently considering proposals to levy new taxes on tech giants operating in the UK. This is in addition to the OECD inquiry which is underway and will be producing a report into findings within the next few months. It’s possible that the chancellor […]

Facebook to roll out a new privacy initiative. Users of Facebook are beginning to receive notifications recommending they perform a ‘privacy checkup’ as part of a new initiative from the company to help users stay informed of privacy issues. Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to improve the social media platform in 2018, and the company is […]

The giant Swiss investment bank UBS has gone on record saying London should still be Europe’s financial core after Brexit, and it will do its utmost to keep as many staff as it can in the city. The comments came from UBS’s investment banking head Andrea Orcel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where […]

Lloyds bans credit card payments purchasing Bitcoin Lloyds Banking Group has banned its customers from purchasing the Bitcoin cryptocurrency using any credit card issued by the group. The group includes MBNA, Halifax and Bank of Scotland and is believed to be the first banking group to ban customers planning to use credit card funds to […]

After years in the doldrums, signs are emerging that oil might be in line for a comeback, nearly four years after its value fell dramatically in mid-2014. With Brent Crude recovering to $65 a barrel on a generally upward trend, thoughts will turn to the $100 a barrel days before the price crash, which saw […]

Cast your mind back 12 months, did you think we’d be having the type of year we have in equities? I know I didn’t. There was a lot of doom and gloom out there…but all we have seen is green, green and more green. European worries are all behind us, populism is back in check, […]

Another year, and another December FOMC meeting where the Fed is set to raise rates. Well, that’s the word on the street, where a 0.25% rate rise is all but priced in for Wednesday. This meeting is important as it sets up 2018, a change in forecast or language could set the USD off into […]

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is just shy of $14,000US (when I started writing this article it was around $13,000). Bitcoin’s market cap is now greater than Citigroup, a company that employs over 200,000 people all around the world. This is probably the most interesting series I’ve seen on Bitcoin so far; on the […]

It’s December, a new month, and the final of what has been an eventfully uneventful 2017. Let’s take a look at how the markets stand right now, and see if there’s any opportunities in the final trading month of 2017. Why do we look at the US markets? They lead, the rest follow. Broadly speaking, […]