Long-term yields a-leaping, plus all the week’s good reads
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What caught my eye this week. I can’t deny the Monevator Christmas party is always a little awkward, but I look forward to it every year. It’s the anonymity that makes it tricky. Not just keeping our identities secret from the waiting staff, but also from each other. Finumus doesn’t want anybody to know who [...]
What caught my eye this week. Data from MoneySuperMarket on household disposable income was presented by This Is Money this week as a regional ranking of which city’s citizens have the most spending power: Disposable income is defined here as what you have left to spend after paying some 31 kinds of outgoings – from rent [...]
What caught my eye this week. With 2024’s decline in mortgage rates arrested – if not yet quite beaten-up for resisting said arrest – it is likely house prices will continue to go nowhere for a while. Especially given the higher stamp duty for buy-to-let landlords that came in with the October Budget. The now-5% [...]
A bit about Bitcoin on the cusp of $100,000 then all the week’s best money and investing reads…
Feel free to skip one more pundit’s view of the Budget if you’ve had enough. I’m not claiming to be John Maynard Keynes. This is just how I see things. When asked why he robbed banks, the US heist wiz Willie Sutton said: “Because that’s where the money is.” Those hit by what passes for [...]
What caught my eye this week. I was bemused to see Adrian Chiles penning a glowing paean to the Delay Repay compensation scheme in The Guardian this week. I’d always imagined such warm feelings were an Investor family quirk. As Chiles writes: After a bit of a fiddle setting up your account, you automatically, as [...]
What caught my eye this week. When I wrote a few weeks ago that pre-Budget speculation had reached a fever pitch, I was wrong. Turned out that was mere pre-Budget babble. This week was the fever. I have no more speculation to add. Not least because Whitehall-based readers seem to have picked up on my [...]
Even a crystal ball wouldn’t help most people trade successfully, plus all the week’s best reads…
What caught my eye this week. Some good news for investment trust fans this week, as the Financial Times reports: The UK government has exempted investment trusts from onerous cost disclosures in a move analysts believe will boost the £260bn industry and could support trusts’ share prices. In a joint statement this week, the government [...]
What caught my eye this week. Recent weeks have seen us debate whether you should sell ahead of – what’s still only rumoured – capital gains tax rises. But as St. Charlie liked to remind us: invert, always invert! To wit: tax-motivated sellers might create opportunities for bargain-hunting buyers. Of course every tax-fearing seller must [...]