The price of bitcoin plunged to a 13 month-low, leaving many punters who jumped onto the crytocurrency bandwagon last winter sitting on substantial a paper loss. Billions of dollars have been wiped from the value of the original and best known cryptocurrency in the past week alone, having tumbled by …
Read More »UK shares to back for a Brexit agreement bounce… or deadlock
Brexit has given UK investors a lot of food for thought. While the pound dropped after the referendum, as traders tried to digest what leaving the EU would mean for the economy, the effect on the stock market has been more subtle. The FTSE 100 index fell sharply in the …
Read More »PRUDENT INVESTOR: I took a 5.5% October haircut — but it could have been far worse
The early autumn stock market storms seem to have abated for now — but how much damage has been done? Few of us have the time to keep up with every investment on a daily basis, but periodic checks can give us a good idea of the direction things are …
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