The Stock Market

The Stock Market and Investments in the UKStock market investors from around the world are worried about the state of the US economy. Some US banks have decided that their economy is already in recession or are predicting that it will be very soon.

Even if the US is not your biggest customer, a recession there would be bad news for your other trading partners and the knock-on effects would hit almost everybody.

In many ways, the stock market is similar to your local market place. It brings together people wanting to sell and people wanting to buy products at the best possible prices. However with the Stock Market we have one big difference, the transaction is undertaken by a middleman (a stock broker) through a dealing screen so we do not have direct dealings with the stock market itself. I have set up an account with Barclays Stockbrokers, I basically pay each time I buy stock rather than per month giving me time to sit back and watch the market.

You can only buy shares in public limited companies (PLCs) on the stock market. Each index comprises a collection of companies. In the UK the best-known is the Footsie - the FTSE 100 index. This reflects the average performance of the biggest 100 stock market-listed companies in the UK.

Is now a good time to invest in the stock market?

On my PC I have a list of companies that I like, this wish list is monitored most days depending on how busy I am with other businesses. Before buying any stock you should do the same, it involves getting the latest online data, checking out estimates and working out forward price earnings (You should consider how a changing society or climate may effect the future of the company!)

A great site for doing this is http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/

So who do we have our eye on in 2010?

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