 Investing in the FTSE 100 Index
Advantages: Cheap products, easy to invest in, good dividend yield, unlike shares in a company will never go bust
Disadvantages: Index concentrated in 10 companies meaning more risk, not for ethical investors, sensitive to oil prices
...Using a trading strategy I have been investing in the FTSE 100 index for the past 9 months. Personally I think the FTSE 100 index is a good place to invest for stockmarket novices and veterans alike. There are many different products that allow you to gai ...
 gorvifal3 22.10.2005 · Read full review
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Like a sheep
Advantages: strength
Disadvantages: follows other markets
It sometimes falbbergast me how much this exchange seem to follow its counterpart, the dow jones over the pond in the united states. Unfortunatley, particluarly at this time when the u.s is experiencing such a dramatic slowdown in its growth rate, the fts ...
AdonisC 05.03.2001 · Read full review
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Nikkei
Advantages: great high tech talent
Disadvantages: sluggish economic fundamentals
The Nikkei 2 2 5 was one of the best performing markets of the 1980's reaching epic overvaluation before the worldwide 1987 crashes where many Japanese investors go thier fingers burnt and realised the ridiculous multiples they were buying at. A minature ...
coop 31.07.2000 · Read full review
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A sorry tale
Advantages: breadth
Disadvantages: poor performance
...For those of you who follow the international markets, the nikkei makes for sorry viewing. Having reached an epic valuation of near 40000 in the summer of 1989, it has since collapsed, and due to renewed uncertainty in the united states, is currently trad ...
AdonisC 05.03.2001 · Read full review
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Not standard or poor
Advantages: very stable
Disadvantages: no bullish growth like dow
The S & P 5 0 0 ( The Standard and Poor’s 500 ) is a wide stable American index that has provided solid growth for the last 5years. not yielding the explosive returns associated with the N A S D A Q or the bullish growth of the D O W J O N E S . The ind ...
coop 31.07.2000 · Read full review
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