Advantages: Up to date comapny specific information - at your fingertips Disadvantages: Unlikely to help me with a high yield stock portfolio
UK-invest
[Background: Find out all the latest business news and views in detail at www.ukinvest.com - in association with Freeserve]
I recently discovered the site UKInvest (www.ukinvest.com) via a search engine, whilst trying to find some information about a Building Society with which I hold a savings account.
After finding an up-to-date article (a press release from that same day) that included all the pertinent information on the ...
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The single best feature about UKinvest is that it gives the user free access to real-time stock market quotes, it's worth using for this factor alone.
Naturally, there's much more to it than that, UKinvest's home page gives you up to date access to major financial headlines and opinion from their wealth of technical writers, including Mike Walters, Alpesh Patel not forgetting Bernice Cohen. There's plenty of USEFUL links and a wealth of archive ...
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Advantages: tech charts, loads of info Disadvantages: sometimes a bit slow
UK-Invest is probably the best equipped site for stock market investment on the net. Sharepages is its only possible rival. If you are into your technical analysis (which I am) then it provides the greatest wealth of charting information. You can get your bollinger bands and various moving averages all plotted for you on this site which saves a lot of time and effort. Apart from that you can also get tons of other useful advice and reports.
It's ...
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Advantages: absolutely essential for financial gurus and beginners alike Disadvantages: none
UK Invest is one of the most comprehensive financial sites around and certainly worth a visit as a starting point to investing.
Financial and Markets news is updated throughout the day. You can enter a stock's name and get a quote - delayed - but if you register you can get a real time quote.
You have an excellent portfolio tool to log your stocks and shares, which you can check throughout the trading day.
There are plenty of articles on investing ...
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Advantages: easy , and in depth Disadvantages: none
The editor of UKinvest is of course Tom Winnifrith . This is the well repected shares guru who helped front Show Me the Money channel four's daytime hit of the past two years .
He is just part of a pretty big behind the scenes team howver at UKinvest which have got together to produce a pretty nifty site for private investors !
Much of the relevant share price information is free which is not always the case with other sites .
The site also has ...
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Advantages: useful information Disadvantages: brokers'tips are not as accurate.
Uk-invest has got a lot of useful articles. "Press clips, Economy and city talk" are all very useful sections. There are some very interesting read.
I think the website is well designed and for people who have just started buying and selling shares it has very useful.
I the only secton i would recommend is the brokers' tips. I have been following some of the shares they have recommended and they don't seem to be going up. They don't make it ...
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Advantages: upto the minute information Disadvantages: discussion rooms
A really useful site filled with lots of invaluable information.
Don't be put of the slow speed of the homepage it mainly because of the ticker but its very useful to have running in the office. Other features include real audio interviews with CEOs and brokers and guru picks. The information on the site will allow you to research any company in some depth with charts and press cuttings available.
The only area when uk-invest is lacking is in ...
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Uk-invest is a very handy site, which gives you up to the minute information on the financial world. It has lots of content including which saves you loads of time. You can get up to minute share prices and all the latest news on any company. This site also tells you whats moving in the stock markets. The weekend tips section gives you a round up of all the tips in the weekend papers so you know which stocks to look out for on Monday.I addded this ...
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Advantages: Very thorough site with good original articles Disadvantages: This site has closed and is no longer running
Unfortunately due to problems with UK-iNvests parent company this site has closed. Any redirection which may happen will send you to ADVFN who took over some of the features of UK-I
Several of the investment writers have moved to write for nationals or other websites. Most notably -
Alpesh Patel writes a regular column for the FT on a Saturday
Alicia Wyllie writes for the Sunday Times (money) as well as other publications as a freelancer
Stephen ...
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Advantages: Comprehensive financial news, lots of useful features Disadvantages: Can occasionally be slow at busy times
I visit UK-Invest every day to keep up with what's happening in the world of finance. It has all sorts of interesting content, including news items on the most active stocks, news of new financial products such as mortgages and bank accounts and analysis of the day's events. As well as all this they publish a roundup of the latest broker tips, which is very useful.
It also has a very good search facility for stock prices, including links to all ...
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Advantages: Great info, right up-to-date Disadvantages:
uk-invest is the provider of financial news and comment for freeserve and it's a great place to get up-to-the-minute information on the stockmarket. The site is linked to a whole host of sister sites across Europe in a rapidly expanding network so you can get news and info on most stocks on earth. The site has its own editorial staff who create informative and easy to read news. They have a variety of financial gurus who write and do audiocasts for ...
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