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Advantages: Well written, excellent articles
Disadvantages: A little dry and can be repetitive

The European edition of Business Week is published weekly and sells at £2.20. On subscription though this cost is much reduced. The contents are split in terms of a geographic split and also by the area of business involved such as finance or IT. In the geographic split you will find sections on European business, American, Latin American and Asian news. In the economic section there is an analysis of the current trends in business throughout the ...
...possibly knowledge of economics and business to find the articles interesting or informative. It is not a magazine for the layman and is not written in a simple way. Business Week seems to take the week’s main issues and distil them into a single edition. The analysis of trends in fiscal policy or economic growth is well defined and clear. The magazine does give a detailed resume of individual countries’ economic prospects. A recent issue had a ... Read review

Advantages: Careful choice could my you rich!
Disadvantages: Could cost you money if you are unlucky

This is a subscription only monthly newsletter covering smaller capitalised companies on the London Stock Exchange and AIM. It claims to have a portfolio of shares that have risen by 1200(excluding dividends)since 1st November 1994, turning £25,000 into £320,000 in six years! This sounds amazing, but unfortunately for us, the share prices they buy at seem to rise before the subscribers get an opportunity to buy. That said, the profit would still ...
...can claim to making a reasonable profit since following their recommendations, although in the present climate, it is becoming rather difficult to continue to tap into that rich vein. Each month it has one or two main write ups of companies they have visited, thoroughly describing the company and it's prospects, and then give their opinions why it's shares should be bought or not. The rest of the publication gives updates of other shares they have ... Read review

Advantages: Uniform price all over Europe
Disadvantages:

Euro Business is a birght glossy publication, which appears monthly halfway through the month, and tends to focus on a particular industrial sector, and often features articles about various bluechip concerns. There is quite a lot of advertising, and it is invariably from the areas most likely to interest businesses, namely Business Telecomms, business travel as well as a good deal of Formula One related advertising, the society element of the magazine ...
...grand prix. A great thing is that the price is near standard throughout Europe - it costs the equivalent of €4.00 all across the EU - so thats GBP2.50, DEM7.82 and so on. The magazine has done some very good features on Media groups such as the German Kirch Gruppe, and comment is incisive and well referenced. Subscribers get an even better deal, paying the cost of ten issues to receive 12. Being European based there is a very much "we" feel about ... Read review

Advantages: cost
Disadvantages: none to mind

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Advantages: Jargon free, very informative.
Disadvantages: Haven't found any yet!

This morning I made a discovery, my copy of "Real Money" dropped through my letter box. It is brilliant, I have just spent an hour and a half reading it. ( I'm working from home today! ) I am 24 years old with a mortgage, no money and a vague interest in finance. Although I am not stupid jargon annoys me, it takes longer than necessary to decipher the information and I don't like wasting time! This magazine is completely jargon free and really informative, ... Read review