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I don't understand why people can't be bothered!
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Thrugelmir wrote: »_pale_
I'm avoiding these sectors currently.....
Be bold, when others are fearful....
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Thrugelmir wrote: »_pale_
I'm avoiding these sectors currently.....
Why, because they are down and out?
Many people invest in things that have proven to be safe and have steadily appreciated. Oil in the 1990s, banks in the 2000s, supermarkets in the 2010s...
People tend not to invest in things that have taken a hammering - (when was it Barratt Developments nearly went bust...?).
I am as guilty as the next man. But I have learned, I'm not smarter than the market - au contraire. So now it's regular saving into a few index trackers (eg FTSE All Share). Sector and stock picking is for mugs. Though guess what, some sector pickers get lucky (and a very few really are smart) as subsequent posters will no doubt tell us...0 -
BHP Billiton is half what I paid for it. If I sold it now and it doubled back to where it was, I would feel dafter than if I kept it and it went bust. That would be two bad decisions instead of one.“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0
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Chickereeeee wrote: »Be bold, when others are fearful....
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Even Buffett burnt his fingers with a holding in Tesco's. By not selling out quick enough.
I'm not averse to contrarian investing. Providing the Company concerned is financially sound, cash generative etc.0 -
Why, because they are down and out?
Many people invest in things that have proven to be safe and have steadily appreciated. Oil in the 1990s, banks in the 2000s, supermarkets in the 2010s...
Too much uncertainty in the medium term. Burderned with debt, dividends under threat, market competition etc. Better options elsewhere at the current time.
Which banks are you referring to?0 -
I literally had no money to buy ARM shares in the beginning.
Every penny I had went into a rust bucket Alfa Romeo.
£800 a year on car insurance!
If only I had the sense to drive a Fiesta.0 -
Barratt Developments
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Perfect example of the effect of politics on investments. Osborne's obsessive housing market interventions to increase house prices have jacked up the value of Barratts landbanks - which has been their saviour.
(Wheras his widening the gap between rich and poor has trashed the middle of the road supermarkets as they lose customers at both ends)“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0 -
Glen_Clark wrote: »Perfect example of the effect of politics on investments. Osborne's obsessive housing market interventions to increase house prices have jacked up the value of Barratts landbanks - which has been their saviour.
The real root of HPI goes back to an earlier Governments wider fiscal policy policy.
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as does the housing crisis'We don't need to be smarter than the rest; we need to be more disciplined than the rest.' - WB0
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Be careful what you ask for.
If a share costs £10, and pays £1 in dividend a year, you get 10% yield. If more people invest their money, and they all want to buy this company, it will push up the price to £20, but the dividend is still £1. Now if you want to invest any more money, you will only get 5% yield.
There will soon be Chinese money flooding the world's markets.
The state visits from the president of China heralds a new era of trade and investment, i.e. money coming our way.
They want to put their money to work, like getting an income stream from UK nuclear power plants.
The pension funds from Chinese state institutions are now allowed to invest some of their money in the stock market, partially because they want to prop up the Chinese markets, but sooner or later they will see the sense in international diversification.
The savings from 1.3 billion people who like to save will be coming our way, driving up prices, pushing down yield.
Yes and no.
The Chinese government encouraged loads of modest investors to leap into the stock market for the first time.
It surged upwards, and more people put more money in, some even borrowing to stake more
Things were fantastic for a while, then it went down, leaving some of them with only half their previous fortune.
So it might not be 1.3 billion people in the next gold rush0
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