How much longer will this bear market go on for?

coastline

It'll go against the grain but I'd rather buy a FTSE tracker than a gilt or even an annuity especially when you intend to hold for many years.
Dividend yield of 4.1%...

Dividend Yields - FTSE 100 (dividenddata.co.uk)

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Not that many problems along the way.

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P/E ratio falling nicely.

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Launched with a dividend yield of 3.3% when index was set at 1000. 

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So £33 a year and now index at 6950 with a dividend of 4.1% or £285 a year. Inflation works out at £33 in 1986 now £87 in 2022. Dividends looking good then and a bit capital gain along the way. Doubt many would agree but there you go. ?

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A doom free day

Type_45

The US Treasury bubble is the final bubble.

GazzaBloom

Type_45 said:

The US Treasury bubble is the final bubble.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/us-budget-deficit-cut-in-half-for-biggest-decrease-ever-amid-covid-spending-declines.html

Type_45

Interesting tweet by Tobias Ellwood MP saying "the free market experiment is over" and "the reset begins" as he endorses Sunak for PM.

Any ideas as to what that might mean?

masonic

Type_45 said:

Interesting tweet by Tobias Ellwood MP saying "the free market experiment is over" and "the reset begins" as he endorses Sunak for PM.

Any ideas as to what that might mean?

Probably that conspiracy theorists are going to try to attach spurious subtext to individual words in that statement.

DoublePolaroid

“The fever-dreamt fiscal policies of our financially illiterate soon to be ex-PM, which threatened to turn the economy into a giant dumpster fire, have been binned. It’s time to get a grown up in charge.”

snarffie

Type_45 said:

Interesting tweet by Tobias Ellwood MP saying "the free market experiment is over" and "the reset begins" as he endorses Sunak for PM.

Any ideas as to what that might mean?

If any post describes what you are about it is this one.

Type_45

masonic said:

Type_45 said:

Interesting tweet by Tobias Ellwood MP saying "the free market experiment is over" and "the reset begins" as he endorses Sunak for PM.

Any ideas as to what that might mean?

Probably that conspiracy theorists are going to try to attach spurious subtext to individual words in that statement.

What does "the free market experiment is over", coming from a Conservative MP, mean to your non-conspiratorial mind?

InvesterJones

Type_45 said:

Interesting tweet by Tobias Ellwood MP saying "the free market experiment is over" and "the reset begins" as he endorses Sunak for PM.

Any ideas as to what that might mean?

Isn't it quite simple? The experiment he refers to is Trussonomics - the idea that you can hand-wave more money to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and companies in the hope that they then generate enough extra lift in economic output to make it pay off in the future. And it's over because the new chancellor is returning to more traditional Conservative values of fiscal discipline.