Which trading platform?

[BlasterBates]

Trading account or S&S ISA: Halifax iWeb. Ideal for infrequent share/ETF purchases with low charges. Sit and forget about them.

My personal view is that we are currently seeing the calm before the storm. We're about to witness a change of world economy that will pivot away from China as a major supplier and developer, across multiple sectors. Pensions will be demolished and old boring folk won't be paying £8k for a nice cruise, that's for sure. I wouldn't touch Carnival shares with yours, but feel free to gamble if that's your desire

I'm not convinced about the pivot away from China, the company I work for is increasing its business with China because the rest of the world is in lock down. Over the next year or two it will be all about survival, there will be no money to build factories for new supply chains, and companies will buy from the cheapest supplier. However I agree that it will be discussed extensively on chat shows, radio shows and in the newspapers.

[ladymuck]

I'm not convinced about the pivot away from China, the company I work for is increasing its business with China because the rest of the world is in lock down. Over the next year or two it will be all about survival, there will be no money to build factories for new supply chains, and companies will buy from the cheapest supplier. However I agree that it will be discussed extensively on chat shows, radio shows and in the newspapers.

A company I'm doing work for is also seeing China as a huge growth area. Nothing to do with manufacturing, more on the pharmaceutical side.

[BlasterBates]

A company I'm doing work for is also seeing China as a huge growth area. Nothing to do with manufacturing, more on the pharmaceutical side.

In the end reality prevails. Still and this is the important point, the discussion about it makes for good ratings and helps to sell newspapers.

[rogerfederer]

In the end reality prevails. Still and this is the important point, the discussion about it makes for good ratings and helps to sell newspapers.

I suspect we'll see raised barriers from the US, of which the UK follow suit. It does make more sense to concentrate on India and Brazil than China, given the authoritarian and oppressive tendencies of the latter. I don't like the altright wing narrative in general but unfortunately they've latched on to the hypocrisy that is a fair point: we've allowed a communist-authoritarian-dictatorship hybrid to flourish to such an extent whilst ignoring morals, when other countries not far away (India, for example) are there and offer just as much opportunity as China.