The UK Economy

As with the two other biggest banks in the UK, The Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE:RBS) has also set aside an enormous amount of money to cover for the infamous mis-sold payment protection insurance that has weighed heavy on the banks bottom lines since it was uncovered. RBS said today it has added some £400 […]

Lloyds Banking Group’s (LSE:LLOY) Chief Executive Officer, Antonio Horta – Osorio must have been inspired by the Halloween when he made his review for the bank’s July to September financial health and the nine months since January when he, unfortunately, disclosed “legacy issues” continue to affect the bank’s profit-making business. A further one billion pounds […]

It’s as if regulatory authorities in the United States cannot get enough of the British financial giant, Barclays plc (LSE:BARC), that after having fined the bank as much as £290 million for fixing the London Inter-Bank Offer Rates (LIBOR) and went to investigate major banks all over the world for the same, two new investigations […]

I recommended shares in Town Centre Securities (LSE:TCSC) – a Leeds-based northern property investor and developer – in April 2010 at 148.75p on t1ps.com the site I founded 12 years ago and ran until this September. The company has since paid out 20.88p in dividends and the shares currently trade at 184p – so this […]

Perhaps the biggest financial news of the day is not the trend of the FTSE 100 nor the rise or fall of a single company’s share price.  It’s not even the continuing saga of the banking scandals.  It’s Ford Motor Company’s announcement of the imminent closure of its Transit van assembly plant at Southampton and […]

What a difference 1% makes! News that the world’s eighth largest economy broke out of recession and grew by 1% during the third quarter of 2012 sent waves of reactions across different economic and social standings, giving a mix of positive and negative impressions highlighted by the media today. Whilst British Prime Minister, David Cameron, […]

I first recommended shares in AIM listed Staffline Group (LSE:STAF), a provider and manager of industrial workforces which operates from more than 190 locations in the UK, at 77.5p in March 2010. The payment of a 3.1p per share interim dividend on 9th November – as declared in the company’s results for the first half […]

The economic situation in Spain is deteriorating rapidly and is coming dangerously close to ongoing situations in failing economies such as those of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.   And the UK stock markets, like other stock markets the world over, are feeling the pinch. Even mere rumors stipulating that the Spanish government might request for […]

Seeing as the UK still ranks as the sixth largest national economy in the world, and is home to one of the world’s most renowned stock exchanges, UK stock markets are certainly still viable for international investments. Some of the benefits investors stand to gain from investing in UK-listed financial securities include the following: Ready […]

London is one of the largest cities in the world; it also boasts of having the highest city Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Europe. All this and more are what help to make the idea of investing in UK stock markets very appealing to investors the world over; hence the high rate of international investments […]