Bearish...or Bullish, What's Your Style?Written by Alton S. Shermand
If you are interested in stock investing and stock market, you may have plenty of questions. Even if you have already started investing, you may still have many questions about details of stock market and your options. Even stock investing pro needs tips now and again and is on a path of continuous daily learning. That is their lifestyle and sometimes their contribution in life.So, how, as a part-time investor, do you know where to go for recommendations? How can you be sure ideas you are getting is good advice? How can you use that advice to make right decisions about your portfolio so that your investing meets your ultimate plan? Stock advice comes in many forms; financial reports, newsletters, performance charts, and trade papers, provided by financial institutions, stock analysts and investment companies are only a few of valuable sources for market information. Stock tips, investment strategies and money management predictions can be obtained by a mere phone call or in a casual chat with your relatives or business colleague. You can receive stock advice by watching CNN or your local news and seeing what is going on in world and condition of various companies. You can also look at companies that are looking to grow or to merge and at what companies' projections and strategies are.
| | Moneynet sounds alarm over poor-paying children’s savings accountsWritten by Moneynet.co.uk
Interest rates on children’s savings accounts – some of most heavily marketed of all savings products – can leave kids badly out of pocket, online financial data service Moneynet warns today.In some cases, difference in rates can be several per cent (see data below), meaning that over a period of years – accounts are typically held for longer term – end savings pot can vary significantly. “High Street lenders are particularly aggressive when it comes to promoting their kids accounts as they hope to retain business as child turns into an adult,” said Moneynet chief executive Richard Brown. “But as our data shows, with a difference of several per cent between best and worst paying accounts, parents should really do their homework before choosing a suitable account to hold longer term savings for their kids.” One of best accounts, Scarborough Building Society’s Children’s Savings Bonds, delivers an attractive 5.75 per cent. A full one per cent above current Bank of England base rate, it is also 3.50 per cent higher than one of worst paying accounts, Norwich & Peterborough Building Society’s Easy Plus, which delivers a relatively meagre 2.25 per cent. “There are literally hundreds of accounts out there, and of course with launch of Child Trust Fund giving kids’ saving an extra dimension, parents need to be vigilant when looking for best options,” said Richard Brown.
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