The 'best time' to buy British shares, halting a digital tax roll-out and FT readers divided on a wealth tax - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...
This could be the best time in 40 years to be buying British shares British shares are the cheapest since records began, reports The Sunday Times, citing Brexit fears and concerns for the economy after the pandemic as two of the main reasons investors have "shunned" them. According to Columbia Threadneedle, the FTSE 100 is at its lowest valuation since 1988. Shares are at a 42% discount to other global markets, the company says, with a historic average of about 17.5%. Hargreaves Lansdown head of investment analysis Emma Wall tells the paper: "The UK has neither economic certainty, ...
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