Thursday 10 January 2008

FTSE4failure?

Many of the predictions at the end of last year were for an average year for FTSE100 shares; with good corporate profits, falling interest rates and a poor housing market the money would have to go somewhere.

Here is the Graph below for the last month, not looking so good is it. I am struggling to predict which sectors will do well this year, maybe tobacco and oil?

7 comments:

  1. Feel free to "invest" in me!

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  2. Anonymous10:14 am

    FTSE100 is flat for the year but FTSEAllShare is already down a few points. Flight to quality has propped up the FTSE100 for a while but I guess that will come to an end soon.

    M&S decline of 4% in a quarter measured in real-terms must surely be the writing on the wall. The FTSE simply hasn't priced this kind of decline in yet on the broader market. I guess brokers are still claiming that Bernanke and King will pull the magic reflationary rabbit out of the hat and save the day. Well it hasn't worked so far, and it looks as if the BoE has decided to salvage itas reputation rather than salvage a screwed economy that refuses to be salvaged.

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  3. I don't like your credit rating Ed! ;-)

    How does the retail investor get exposure to gold?

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  4. Well I guess HMG will just have to shove a few billion in my direction then.

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  5. Richard,

    By buying gold sovereigns or small ingots. You usually have to pay about 4% when you buy and 4% when you sell though.

    Some managed fund will buy gold bullion whne they think the time is right too.

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  6. Richard, avoid physical gold unless you think the banking system is going to collapse.

    Buy an ETF - easy, cheap, liquid.

    http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/buy_gold_071820074

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