Best sources of business information, market watch from Irish perspective?

R1_Pete

Hi All,

Have opened an account with Saxo bank through SAM.ie and am about to transfer some cash to start some trades.
With the weak Euro and currency fluctuations I am unsure if I am better to have stocks tied up in GBP despite the poor FX rate right now, or to buy and focus on Euro stocks at the moment. Thoughts??

Also, can anyone recommend some good blogs, websites, podcasts etc that are worth subscribing to? There is a lot of US and UK focused stuff out there, but seems very little focused on the ISE?

Thanks in advance for any inputs,
P

Prezatch

new_balls wrote: »

the weak euro is possitive for european stocks which are relatively cheap right now compared to u.s equities , if i were you i would buy the vanguard european fund ( VEUR )

low fees and a very broad exposure

id also buy VJPN as japan is cheaper than it was twenty five years ago

both funds are on the amsterdam exchange

An alternative to VEUR (which is quoted in GBP) is IMEA (a very similar european stocks etf but is quoted in EUR) if you want to avoid currency exposure in the portfolio and currency conversion commissions if you don't have a GBP bank account to fund the share purchases with.

euroboom13

Read all the Sunday papers and do the complete opposite of their advise and you will make money in no time at all.

Headlines that read "House prices rising"= sell .
"Bumper year end results" =sell
"Hugh accounting errors only coming to light, and may run deeper" =BUY,sell your granny, BUY"
Massive decline in revenue" BUY

Seriously works ,Good Luck

R1_Pete

Cheers guys, ill look at some of those funds this evening..
Euroboom, thanks for the laugh.. Funny as its mostly true.