Financial Mail on Sunday

Advantages: Light, easy reading, very informative, good share tips.
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...on a wide range of financial subjects, are complemented by reviews of the Stock Market in the past week, major share price movers, and tabulations of the next weeks list of companies reporting. The Midas column usually tips up to 4 companies each week. I have systematically logged the share tips of all the Sunday papers (listed on Teletext channel 4, each Sunday afternoon), and have concluded that the Midas tips are consistently amongst the best! ... Read review

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Disadvantages: lack of general share coverage

As a small investor I recently tried the Mail On Sunday to check out it's share coverage . I wish I hadn't bothered . To start with hardly any closing share prices were listed . The categories are small and do not feature the share price of pretty big companies when almost every other Sunday publication you can think of does . For example . If you look under the transport sector . There are half a dozen companies listed . I couldn't find however ...
...Why not is this an oversight or can't the paper be bothered to expand it's coverage ? The list goes on and on . Lot's of big name companies are not featured and they are widely held shares by the ordinary person in the street . It is not just this though . The pages do not give enough coverage to shares in depth generally and I really think this is something they need to work on. ... Read review

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...rates. There is an interesting and informative readers letters section. What I have also found interesting is the financial mails link to the world wide web... for those technical people out there check out: www.thisismoney.com. This finance site contains many of the articles from the mail and is updated daily. ... Read review

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...tall" as a leader in financial newspapers does it? surely the Times and the like do? Well, actually, I think the Mail has a lot of good points in it - and it is a shame that newspaper snobbery in the UK prevents the Mail from getting the recognition it deserves. I am a long term investor, have been doing my own research etc for many years so would be the first to admit that the Mail does not prvide the depth that I would wish for. However, I think ...
...inforamtion which we can all to some degree benefit from - and the average uk investor or person looking to start to understand finance could do a lot worse than read the Mail. Its articles are concise, well rounded, clear etc. ONe other thing I like is it is willing to campaign on behalf of the average uk man and woman - for better and fairer pension rights from companies for example. The other thing is - watch out on wednesdays - they do another ... Read review