Primary Recommendation

Plus500 - 66% forecast upgrade

December 2013

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

It's a good rule in the stock market that when activity levels rise you should look to buy shares in the financial services sector. This rule has been borne out with IG Group (IGG; 585p), which has developed an internet based spread betting and CFD service enabling investors to wager on the direction of stockmarkets, commodities, equities and forex and which has seen its shares rise threefold since the bull market began in late 2008/early 2009. IG is, of course, a name most investors will be familiar with and has been quoted since 2000 when it brought financial spreadbetting to the masses (although there was a brief spell when it had gone private). On the other hand, the subject of this article, Plus500, which focuses ...

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