Sadly this a bit of a limited Full English, as my long-suffering phone, on which the draft was stored locally, decided on Thursday it would prefer to emulate a house brick. Minimal news links, no wafty text, mainly UK blogs.
Have a great week,
The Shrink
News:
- ProShares UltraPro QQQ, the triple leveraged ETF focusing on tech, has had a stunning year, but is now haemorrhaging investors (1)
- House prices are predicted to fall over the next two years (2)
- Gold is at record highs. Is it worth buying? (3)
- Tesla’s price has shot up since March. What can stop it’s runaway success train? (4)
Opinions/ Blogs: (After last week’s craziness it’s a bit briefer today)
- The IT Investor reports their H1 returns (5)
- Money Bulldog looks at whether it’s worth booking a holiday this year (6)
- John, the UK Value Investor, has lessons from investing in Ted Baker (7)
- Can’t Swing A Cat covers the new stamp duty changes (8)
- The Banker on Fire covers the easy way to get rich, reduce your tax (9)
- Ermine shares some thoughts on emergency funds, fintech, and holding other currencies (10)
- MedFi has a great post on different approaches to Emergency Funds through personal risk analysis (11)
- Tuppenny covers some classic investment routes (12)
- Life after the daily grind aims fire at the brainwashing media (13)
- Monevator’s weekend reading is on the resurgence of COVID-19 cases (14)
- While this week they also covered the worst UK market crash in history (15)
- Moneygrower reports their Q2 dividend income (16)
- Playing with FIRE has a starter explanation of FIRE (17)
- GFF considers holidays (18)
- Getting minted covers some portfolio changes in the wake of market moves (19)
- TEA recommends introspection to find your weak link (20)
- The DIY Investor UK examines IShares MSCI World SRI Fund (21)
- Monethalia has some matched betting mistakes (22)
- FIRE v London takes a look at various points of view on how much should you save? (23)
- And Indeedably is learning from his lizard brain (24)
References:
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/triple-leveraged-tech-etf-has-exodus-after-200-surge-from-lows
- https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-8506319/House-prices-forecast-fall-5-year-11-2021-Cebr-warns.html?_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D&_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thisismoney.co.uk%2Fmoney%2Fmortgageshome%2Farticle-8506319%2FHouse-prices-forecast-fall-5-year-11-2021-Cebr-warns.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jul/12/precious-metal-the-gold-standard-investment-when-a-crisis-hits
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/mystified-tesla-bears-on-wall-street-admit-there-appears-to-be-nothing-that-can-stop-the-stock-right-now.html
- https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2020/07/h1-2020/
- http://moneybulldog.co.uk/is-it-worth-booking-a-holiday-in-2020-or-even-2021/
- https://www.ukvalueinvestor.com/2020/07/ted-baker-disaster.html/
- http://www.cantswingacat.co.uk/2020/07/09/coronavirus-stamp-duty-changes-what-do-they-mean-for-you/
- http://bankeronfire.com/the-really-boring-and-highly-effective-way-to-get-rich
- https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/fancy-fintechs-fishy-fun/
- https://medfiblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/emergency-fund-2-0/
- https://tuppennysfireplace.com/change-investing-gold-mutual-funds-investing-habits-financially-frugal/
- https://lifeafterthedailygrind.com/brainwashed/
- https://monevator.com/weekend-reading-corona-crisis-round-two/
- https://monevator.com/the-uks-worst-stock-market-crash-1972-1974/
- https://moneygrower.co.uk/second-quarter-2020-dividend-income-importance-of-dividend-cover/
- https://playingwithfire.uk/fire-101-financial-independence-retire-early-in-the-uk/
- https://gentlemansfamilyfinances.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/1859/
- https://gettingminted.com/returning-to-normal/
- https://theescapeartist.me/2020/07/12/youre-only-as-strong-as-your-weakest-link/
- http://diyinvestoruk.blogspot.com/2020/07/ishares-msci-world-sri-fund.html
- https://monethalia.com/matched-betting-mistakes/
- https://firevlondon.com/2020/07/12/how-much-should-you-save/
- https://indeedably.com/instinct/
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