Stock Market crash-not if but when?

mike88

Glen_Clark wrote: »

I don't think the UK election has got much to do with it because foreign stock markets have been similarly volatile - if you look on the front page of the FT and hover your mouse of the the indexes you can see .. http://www.ft.com/home/uk

Clearly the election has been a significant factor as the FTSE opened up 2% this morning.

le_loup

Not far off what Germany, France, China and now the US have done.
Clearly they too were all excited about our Long Tern Economic Plan being given a further run for it's money.

Glen_Clark

mike88 wrote: »

Clearly the election has been a significant factor as the FTSE opened up 2% this morning.

The FTSE has not risen as much as the rest of Europe, (or China)

FTSE 1007,028.76+2.06%


Eurofirst 3001,587.07+2.59%


Shanghai4,206.76+2.30%

I suppose Britains right wing press are giving the Tories the credit for that as well

Alfairy

Well there are a lot of speculations regarding when the market will crash and stuff like , looking at the current scenario and market conditions it is more prominent that the market is going to crash. The most important thing is how to profit from stock market crash .The recent stock market crash highlights the need for more attention on portfolio risk, asset allocation, and quality. But it also highlights opportunity.

2010

This thread has been dead for a year.

Interesting thing in post #114 above is where the ftse100 is,just about peaking.
Since then, it`s dropped 870 points.

diamonds

Forget the markets, Child Tax Credit generations the state paid for will all be entering the workplace en mass and most on minimum wage with get help for housing costs and then having their own tax credit children, the next 5 years onwards this country is royally screwed, the UK markets will be affected and thus a knock on effect.


CTC does not remove any generation of child poverty (it adds many on different state dependencies in generations ongoing), education does.

BananaRepublic

Alfairy wrote: »

Well there are a lot of speculations regarding when the market will crash and stuff like , looking at the current scenario and market conditions it is more prominent that the market is going to crash. The most important thing is how to profit from stock market crash .The recent stock market crash highlights the need for more attention on portfolio risk, asset allocation, and quality. But it also highlights opportunity.

You've proven that the market is about to crash. But I'm still waiting for your link to your web site explaining how to make a mint from gold. Hurry up please.

jimjames

2010 wrote: »

This thread has been dead for a year.

Interesting thing in post #114 above is where the ftse100 is,just about peaking.
Since then, it`s dropped 870 points.

Having been down nearer 1200 in that time. Yet still been paying 4% dividends over that year. Europe is up approx 10% as is the US. World index is unchanged.

Doesn't that show that despite all the doom and gloom and crashes, that it's not as risky as some might suggest?

Glen_Clark

diamonds wrote: »

most on minimum wage with get help for housing costs

Is this why the UK market is underperforming the rest of the world?
Taxpayers are borrowing astronomical amounts of money to subsidise other people's housing costs because Government intervention in the housing market has made housing too expensive for those on the minimum wage. Rather than allow enough houses to be built to bring down house prices, for the first time in history a Tory Government now wants a higher minimum wage!!!! - is there anything they won't do to keep their house price bubble inflated? High housing costs is obviously a drag on the productive side of the economy. Why risk investing in a factory full of machinery and training engineers when taxpayer subsidy has made buy to let more profitable?

Glen_Clark

2010 wrote: »

This thread has been dead for a year.

Interesting thing in post #114 above is where the ftse100 is,just about peaking.
Since then, it`s dropped 870 points.

Only just noticed that when I copied and pasted it the spaces after FTSE100, Eurofirst300, and Shanghai, all seem, to have disappeared.