If you are suffering from financial difficulties your first point of call maybe the internet. Simply type in ‘Debt’ on Google and you will see a bewildering array of companies promising to sort out your debts and wipe of vast amounts off the money you owe. But what do all these mean? Well, due to [...]

Spread betting is based on predictions made by bookmakers specifying the range of possible outcomes of an event. A ’spread’ covers the most likely outcomes of an event and consists of two prices, a higher ‘buy’ price and a lower ’sell’ price. If you believe the bookmakers ‘buy’ prediction will be exceeded you ‘go long’, [...]