“If tomorrow everybody was your friend. Anyone could take you in, no matter what or where you’ve been. If tomorrow everybody had enough. The world wasn’t quite so rough. Don’t you wish it were true? If tomorrow everybody under the sun, was happy just to live as one, no borders, no battles to be won. […]
Let’s hope the experts have called it right on the lockdown
On the Money: Alan Steel I’ve been in the financial advisory industry for over 47 years now and I’ve never seen anything like this before. I survived the 1973/75 stock market crash when the FTSE All-Share Index fell 72% peak to bottom when after months of red prices and anguish, prices plummeted in the last […]
Loo roll index soars as investors catch selling bug
On The Money: Alan Steel Does anybody remember Black Friday 13 October 1989? How about Black Monday 19 October 1987? No? Well on the first day a reported “mini-stock market crash” knocked 191 points (or 6.9% if you prefer) off the Dow Jones Index. Why was that you might ask? What could be so serious? […]
Hold tight and try to avoid the bad news sickness
“We have fallen upon evil times, politics is corrupt and the social fabric is fraying” On the Money: Alan Steel Any idea who said that and when? Was it last year? Or last month, bearing in mind Donald Trump’s supposed impeachment, or does it refer to Brexit? What about the disturbances in France and Hong […]
It pays to play the long game
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because somebody planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffet On the Money: Alan Steel Now that we’re a few days into 2020 I wonder how many of you have already given up on your New Year Resolutions ? According to a bunch of statisticians with too […]