GDP figures show the pain of COVID19
The UK economy saw a 2.2% contraction between Q4 2019 and Q1 2020 followed by a 20.4% contraction between Q1 and Q2. This is in spite of 8.7% growth in June when businesses deemed non-essential [...]
Is gold the shining star of investment?
World events have put gold back in the spotlight. In fact, on 6th January 2020, the price of gold reached its highest level since April 2013 ($1,590.90 per ounce). It then quickly dropped back to [...]
How to keep your portfolio intact in a crisis
Keep calm and carry on may look cute on mugs and t-shirts, but it can be a bit harder to apply in real life. It is, however, precisely what investors have to do right now. [...]
What does the Coronavirus mean for investors?
Depending on your point of view, the collapse of Flybe was either the end of an airline or the end of an era. Flybe wasn’t just a budget airline, it was the airline which kept [...]
What has the Coronavirus taught us about e-commerce?
If there’s one economic sector which should, at the very least, be doing just fine right now, it’s arguably e-commerce. For example, looking at the headline figures, Amazon is doing spectacularly well. According to CEO [...]
Spotting Coronavirus Scams
Scammers are a sad fact of life. It would be nice to think that they would “go straight”, for the duration of the pandemic. Unfortunately, quite the opposite seems to be true. Some people are [...]
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