The benchmark index of the UK equity market is the FTSE 100 Index. This index is comprised of the 100 blue chip companies on the London Stock Exchange and is dominated by oil majors like Shell plc(SHEL) and BP(BP), banks (HSBC), drug firms (Astrazeneca – AZN) and consumer staple giants like Unilever (UL). As such, …
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We reviewed The Vanguard Index Chart for Australian equities in an earlier post. In this post, let’s take a look at a similar chart for the UK market. British stocks have underperformed poorly relative to US stocks for the period from 1992 to 2021 as shown in the chart below. Since 1992, US stocks would …
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Similar to the S&P 500 Index, the FTSE All-Share Index for the UK equity market has also generated positive year-end returns in most of the recent few years though the intra-year declines was negative. The following chart shows the intra-year highest declines vs. year-end calendar returns for the FTSE All-Share Index from 1986 to 2022 …
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The automotive industry is one of the largest industries in the UK providing jobs to hundreds of thousands of workers and involving billions of pounds in economic activity. At the end o 2019, there were 7 major luxury and sports car manufacturers in the country. Some of the top British brands include Aston Martin, Bentley, …
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