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Does good economic news exist anymore?

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  • badger09
    badger09 Posts: 11,691 Forumite
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    ColdIron wrote: »
    I found a pound in my washing machine yesterday :)

    Hope you've added it to your spreadsheet :p

    Under column headed 'Serendipitous discovery of funds which, if not found, could have necessitated expensive repair bill, or major unplanned expenditure on white goods' :rotfl:
  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,892 Forumite
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    Good news?

    Just got the Fidelity Special Values annual report.

    Share price up 63% and dividend up 25%. Investment news doesn't get much better than that!
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • Westphalia
    Westphalia Posts: 33 Forumite
    If anyone may be interested, Mark Carney gave his first major TV interview tonight on C4 news.

    http://www.channel4.com/news/mark-carney-channel-4-news-bank-england-governor
  • bigadaj
    bigadaj Posts: 11,531 Forumite
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    ColdIron wrote: »
    I found a pound in my washing machine yesterday :)

    Tut tut, money laundering..
  • Thrugelmir
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    Freecall wrote: »
    FTSE100 drops 100 points on news!

    The world's gone mad.

    :doh:

    .

    Brings forward the day interest rates might rise. This will hit corporate profitability.
  • A_Flock_Of_Sheep
    A_Flock_Of_Sheep Posts: 5,332 Forumite
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    edited 14 November 2013 at 10:22AM
    pat_cashmoney wrote: »
    it's because of idiot short termism. they'll have forgotten about it tomorrow and think "ooh, these prices look cheap, will have some of that!"

    Just goes to show how stupid and idiotic it all is. Back up today. The only people that get rich through it is the brokers.

    Haven't all those stupid folk yesterday read Tim Hales book? One of the first rules. Don't make the croupiers rich.
  • Freecall
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Brings forward the day interest rates might rise. This will hit corporate profitability.

    I understand the reason commentators give, that is not the point.

    The economy is on the mend after several years of stagnation and investors in British Business can't see that this is good news.

    The focus is so tied in to detail that they can't see the big picture.
  • pat_cashmoney
    pat_cashmoney Posts: 42 Forumite
    A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »
    Just goes to show how stupid and idiotic it all is. Back up today. The only people that get rich through it is the brokers.

    got a suspicion that everyone just invested those washing machine pounds. :money:
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