If there’s one thing I don’t recommend, it’s buying stock on margin. Due to the volatility of stocks and high margin interest rates, borrowing money to buy stocks is a bad idea.
Conversely, I’m not opposed to buying a home
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Inheritance tax receipts surge 10% – HMRC on track for another record year
…The taxman is set for another record year when it comes to inheritance tax (IHT).
HMRC collected £6.3 billion in the first nine months of the tax year. This figure is up more than 10% compared to the same
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Wage growth in UK jumps ahead of inflation
…Wage growth in the UK hit 5.6% in the three months to November 2024, meaning more money in workers’ pockets, but potentially stoking fears of inflation.
Economists and analysts watch the strength of the UK labour market closely as a
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Should you add Straumann Holding to your portfolio?
…The global dental market is expected roughly to double in size over the next decade. Rising demand for aesthetic treatments, such as implants, veneers and braces, is set to drive the bulk of the growth, particularly in major developed markets
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Low Tuck Kwong: the Indonesian mining billionaire who is benefitting from coal boom
…A decade ago, the Indonesian mining billionaire Low Tuck Kwong was known mainly for his private zoo – a fabulous menagerie of peacocks, orangutans and Sumatran tigers, featuring zebra-hybrids known as “zonkeys” and the tycoon’s own “zorse”. To visiting journalists,
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The top areas for buy-to-let rental yields
…It is a challenging time to be a buy-to-let landlord.
Many of the benefits of investing in property have been hit by slowing rental growth, tax relief restrictions and lower capital gains tax allowances, as well as increased regulations such
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Review: Cobblers Cove, Barbados – your hotel home in the Caribbean
…It’s not because this pink gem of a hotel is stashed away in the verdure of its Barbadian gardens that Cobblers Cove is so named. (Although pink and green are its signature colours.) And it’s not because, like a pirates’
