Sign of the times

YOU need to go west for the latest investment trends because the US stock markets continue to set the pace. The growth stocks over there tend to be replicated over here shortly afterwards and big rises or falls on Wall Street trigger corresponding celebrations and shockwaves around the world.

The internet lets British investors see the same financial information as US investors but it can be hard to know from a distance which sites are solid and properly researched. Many apparentlyconvincing US sites peddle exaggerated rumours about specific shares to encourage excessive trading - boosting brokers' commissions.

To help investors sort the wheat from the cyber-chaff, www.thisismoney.co.uk has signed up to offer direct links from its home page to one of the most established and credible US investment websites. News giant CBS's finance staff offer constant updates with a rolling news service, a detailed stock watch of key movers in the markets and a focus on net stocks, still the most exciting shares for many investors. The boom in technology and biotechnology shares both began and headed south in the US ahead of Britain, Europe and Japan, and was widely commented on in CBS reports.

Anyone using thisismoney.co.uk would have seen which way the markets here were likely to go ahead of many other investors - vital if you want to make money in any market.

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