by Tom Rodgers | Mar 16, 2020
Any doubt that we’ve just witnessed widespread economic shock has disappeared. The most devastating stock market crash since Black Monday 1987. Positions wiped out. Portfolios decimated. It’s a pretty scary place to be. My collection of FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and AIM...
by Tom Rodgers | Mar 8, 2020
It was the fifth-largest single day UK stock market crash in history. If you were there you know what I am talking about. On Monday 9 March 2020, investors witnessed a perfect storm of market weakness. It was predicated on the growing fear of the spread of...
by Tom Rodgers | Mar 5, 2020
The signs are in for a deep and sustained fall in stocks over the next couple of months as the US grapples with growing fear over the long-term effects of the new coronavirus. Investors who bought the dip on Tuesday’s huge slide in the expectation of a reversal the...
by Tom Rodgers | Nov 11, 2019
Published in Motley Fool UK, 31 Oct 2019 Baillie Gifford’s flagship fund, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE:SMT) has forward-thinking investors hovering over the buy button. SMT is trading at a 3% discount to its net asset value (NAV) right now. It is up by...
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