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London house prices: more problems in the new-build sector
London house prices: more problems in the new-build sector There has been a huge response to my article on London house prices from last week. MoneyWeek readers seems to be genuinely split on this one. Half think that London is so fabulous and so much in demand that prices can’t ever fall much – or for long. The other half…
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State Pension Deferral?
Oops, posted in wrong section, please ignore
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The Great Financial Meltdown of 2015
Should I cash in all my Investments?
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Property market 'hits ground running' in 2016 as UK house prices accelerate
Wow. Rightmove +2.9% MoM. That's a lot of noise. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/property-market-hits-ground-running-2016-uk-house-prices-accelerate-1543796
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The Cashless e-conomy
http://toyland.gizmodo.com/monopoly-ultimate-banking-eliminates-cash-with-a-tiny-a-1759240688
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Buying a new house
sorry pls delete, wrong forum!
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What should you buy on 15th March?
On March 16th the FOMC meets to determine monetary policy in the US. It's likely to have an interesting effect on many markets. What will you be buying (or shorting) on the 15th March? Anyone fancy a competition? I betting MSE's old favourite silver takes a beating after recent rises.
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A Death By Eight Million Cuts
The Trade Union Act proposes that union subs shouldn't automatically subsidise the Labour Party any longer. According to the very excellent Labour List website, insiders think that this is likely to lead to a reduction in Labour Party funding by £8,000,000 a year.…
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Japan negative interest rates
Total, utter insanity. Yet, that’s what it now takes to keep the 2008 redux at bay for just a few business quarters longer. Now, other countries have done this, including Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden. Heck, even Germany has had negative bond prices, but Japan is the 3rd largest economy on earth, and is the largest yet…
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hsbc bought instead of sold
I recently sold some shares linked to my hsbc invest direct account. I called hsbc and placed the sell order worth about £250. I checked my online account the following day which stated that a buy order was executed successfully. Therefore I called hsbc back. The chap I spoke to said that it was clear that I placed a sell…
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Some food for Ruggedtoast's soul
Ranty Blog Post Link Ok, in the interest of disclosure, I don't agree with a lot of this but he does make some pretty good points. I think the answer, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle. I do believe young people today have fewer wealth options than of the previous decades. But equally, I know people in London with no…
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As stock markets tumble, gold buying gone bananas, telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/12151770/Investors-go-bananas-for-gold-bars-as-global-stock-markets-tumble.html BullionByPost, Britain's biggest online gold dealer, said it has already taken record-day sales of £5.6m as traders pile into gold following fears the world is on the brink of…
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Day 3: 12 Days of Xmas Quiz
[FONT="]Which band's single copy album sold in 2014 for $5mn was requested to be handed over in a Freedom of Information Act request in the US? [/FONT]
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Oil Prices and Interest Rates.....
....or Why I Stopped Worry and Learned to Love the Germans. For most of the period since 1974, world capital flows have been driven by so-called Petrodollars: US Dollars earned by selling oil (petrol) and then re-invested into the financial system. Petrodollars have enabled a number of things, for example: - Western…
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The Quant's House Price Diary
There's a lot of renters on this forum who are missing out on the joy & excitement of the current house price rises. So as a public service I'm going to keep a diary of my own HPI, so they can share in my success. I've been tracking my own property price and believe it to be worth £415k , the estimate was verified when the…
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Man-Baby Tory MP Lives with Parents
"A Tory MP earning £77,000-a-year has revealed that he is still living with his parents because he cannot afford to buy a home." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3440327/Tory-MP-earns-74-000-year-plus-expenses-moves-parents-t-afford-deposit-London-house.html#comments
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London - The commodity
Check out the video, future skyline if everything is approved .... http://www.cityam.com/234293/london-house-prices-how-the-capital-would-look-if-every-skyscraper-were-approved
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Anyone thinking of selling their BTL?
With all the gloom around is anyone temped to lock in returns? With all the new changes around and stock markets plunging which could be seen as a good indicator of times ahead. I was thinking quite negatively this morning until I heard PM's questions and he continued to reel of all the government incentives, all these HTB…
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EU Deal - Money still sent to other economies
Forgive the title, want to keep it here! So we have the draft deal. The deal appears to be that we have the power to ask for a temporary brake on migrant benefits. This is something we already have - we can already ask. It wouldn't be an outright break though as Cameron wanted, instead it would be graduated. So more money…
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More "We might do something, maybe" from the BOE
Consumer credit is increasing at record pace (or was last year) so not entirely sure how much faster it needs to increase before they do something. It's also at record highs, well passed the level in 2007. They also seem to be warning that they might do something more with BTL. So seems we've got some more words. Appears…
