UK

himynameis_

Listen, since you're in the UK. I'd recommend getting an ISA and maxing that out every year so that your gains are tax free. I believe it is £20,000 per year which is great. For the rest of it, I recommend the "VT and chill" strategy. As in, find an ETF in the UK that tracks the S&P500 index *at a very low cost* and leave it there. In Canada I have an ETF that has an Management Expense Ratio (MER) of 0.09%. So look for something in that range and lower. DM me if you want to talk more about this. Don't listen to people saying to buy individual stocks or sectors or whatever. They're setting you up for failure. You have a great starting capital to work with to help you retire early.

CalRippedken

Why is it "cancelled" in the UK and "canceled" in the US? Because we gave them that L in 1776 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Icy-Dimension2914

Oh hey it's freedom day already here (in the UK)

Swords_Not_Words_

Heres some DD from a guy in NJ who has bern to their original location and watched them grow over the years. They are a lot worse since getting boughrt out and going nationwide...but even at their best they were just kind of ok. In NJ, you can throw a rock and itll pass ten delus better than Jersey Mikes. The supermarkets here make better sandwhiches. But you probably dont live in a magical food wonderland like New Jersey. You might live in Ohio or Missouri or some shit and Jersey Mikes is probably better than anything you got. And they plan to expand to UK? Certainly vrtter than anything in England, you mfs eat beans on toast. At the end of the day these mediocre processed sandwhich chains usually expand rapidly and then vanish off the face of the earth. They say Subway is still around but I havent seen one in ages. Quiznos got ran into the ground. Im sure many others. I personally think JM isnt that good and their portions suck and they are stupid expensive for fast food. I can go to my local deli or market in NJ and theyll pile 5 piunds of good quality cold cuts on a sub and itll be 1000s times better but still cheaper than Mikes.

tfwInForChop

The worse the UK gets the prouder I am to be an American. It's like selling your bags and moving onto a different stock that does way better, then looking back at that old stock 250 years later, laughing, and feeling the awesome wave of relief and gratitude you got off that path. Happy 4th y'all. A lot of good men laid down their lives so we didn't have to be british.

gbdgdh

8% is a santander-UK thing, i think? in the usa, it's currently 3.8% - very good as well. $500 minimum deposit.

her_majestys_dildo

The UK PM did an AMA on Reddit yesterday. Bullish?

redmongrel

I assume the UK’s extremely wealthy are looking at the US model and realize that with just a small investment in misinformation (a road already paved by Brexit) they can easily grow the population of dumbasses so much that they’ll gladly give away their social entitlements to make the rich, richer. All while being 100% positive they’re making their own lives better.

Blackhawk149

Have some respect if there was no July 4 holiday you think there would be a America? Nah homie we would be like UK

MNCPA

Maybe in the UK. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Deep_Calls_007

“UK is experiencing massive surge in theft”. Is it not decreasing on an avg if we consider last 500 yrs?

FinePerformance1046

I only trade shares because I’m from the UK and our tax free accounts don’t allow options trading. I do trade penny stocks a bit which basically move in the same way as options in terms of volatility. I’m up 15% since May 13th when I first deposited on Robinhood.

No-Calligrapher250

This is where the UK is heading, dont you worry about that

littlecomet111

Because the UK Government just announced they will spend a fuck ton of money on drones.

Kavi_D

In the UK depending on age you get access to private pension at 55 or 57 but state pension is at 67.

Kavi_D

Thank you for your comment. Sadly in the UK there are no funds that yield anywhere close to 13% that I own of. At best may be 5-6%.

Deep_Calls_007

Going to dictatorship shithole >!UK!< for the weekend just to laugh at those poors

Various_Couple_764

consider putting your 300K into dividend funds. Not I live in the US so I may not know everything about UK ISA account. In the US I can invest in QQQI 13% yield 300K in this acount can generate 39K a year which you can either reinvest or spend. At 500k invested it would generate 69K year. having this much stable income from your investments could carry you and your family through periods of unemployment. Now QQQI is a US fund. For tax reasons you may want to look for a similar domestic fund. to avoid foreign taxes. Note dividends are cash profit sharing payments directly into your account. You don't sell shares of stock to get this income.

No-Mission-4784

Didn’t know that… wow. In UK it seems to be just Coca-Cola that bottles it. I never even knew PepsiCo had some sort of arrangement with them too.

No-Mission-4784

That’s interesting. Here in the UK it’s got something something Coca-Cola Company all over it. I don’t have a bottle on me at the moment but it always made me think it was owned by Coca-Cola.

Keeltoodeep

Good luck in your journey. It's a marathon not a sprint. Also idk about holding European companies. The GDP growth trajectory looks terrible over there. Are you investing in FTSE because you are more bullish on UK relative to USA?

on_hype

That $57 DCF number from GuruFocus is auto-generated and notoriously aggressive on terminal growth assumptions. I'd be careful anchoring to it. The spin-off logic is sound though. Conglomerates with divergent growth profiles almost always trade at a discount, and separating media from connectivity should unlock some value. Real question is what the debt allocation looks like between the two entities. Broadband losses slowing is genuinely good data. But fiber overbuild is secular, not cyclical, so I'd want to see stabilization not just a better-than-feared quarter. Theme parks in Saudi and UK are 5+ year capital commitments with uncertain returns. That's not a near-term catalyst, that's capex risk. Position disclosed, which I appreciate. At 10% portfolio I'd want a clearer margin of safety than a generic screener DCF.

VerdantPathfinder

If your mortgage rate is low, you're better off investing in FTSE. That said, there's some solace in paying off the mortgage and you need to live in a way that makes you happy. If paying off the morgage makes you happy, go for it. As a bonus you're not paying interest anymore. You've gotten the compounding and can invest your mortgage payment going forward. No matter what you do, that compounding happened. You're good. And if you need money for something in the future, you can take out a home equity loan (whatever the UK version is) to get that money back out. That's puts you back into a mortgage payment, but you have the cash you needed.

AfternoonEquivalent4

And the UK and Russia

mondeomantotherescue

Well hopefully it is spaces time to shine again soon. Got into asts at 8 USD. Sadly I sold 40 at 40 USD thinking myself a stock picking genius. I think they have great potential. I drove across the US a lot for work when I was a TV producers and I was always amazed how bad the cell reception was in rural areas. The UK is so small it's not such an issue

PlasonJates

Also 33 UK, I spent my 20s 'investments' playing with crypto and meme stocks. They paid for my car but nothing else to show for from it. Only in my 30s have decided to get serious and start investing properly. Finally paid off the loan I took out to retrain into a higher paying job so now I'm hoping to just dump every spare penny into savings. In a very similar boat to you so don't feel discouraged, as least you didn't waste your 20s chasing meme stocks haha

LasyKuuga

UK tard here. Chat I tried to watch porn on my phone using a VPN this morning and it didn’t work. It’s so over 😢

extrabigbrain

all these Euros going on about how great America is on SM is suppose to make us feel better? Give me a break - US biggest weakest link is that the food is absolute shit. I have a go to dinner that I cook thay consists of sautéing ground beef, tomatoes, and mushrooms. When I make it in the U.S. it’s practically flavorless. I made it in the UK and in France on holiday and it was bursting with flavor.

Kavi_D

Retirement for most in UK is when state pension hits at around 67. I know what you are saying about 57 but considering my financial commitment it will be hard pressed to reduce the time frame I think. I am looking for advice to improve the timeframe without overly increasing the risk. I can deal with volatility for around 5 years but then would look to revert to mean

affordable_luxury

At the end of the day any country has two options: the Ukrainian one to give nuclear weapons and let USA, UK and Russia (I know, but that was the deal) to protect them from aggressions, and the North Korean one, that they got nuclear weapons and nobody invades them. For peasants it is a terrible thing, but for the countries is not a terrible idea in a world where no one is reliable anymore.

-Mothman_

UK and France have ceased boats of the shadow fleet just this week. They are selling to countries in the East at discounted rates.

Red_Zone_Broly

I heard that the average junior doctor in the UK makes about as much as a McDonalds worker in the US

BlueberryConnect9115

The rules are weird in the UK. Magic Mushrooms are a class A drug (alongside heroin etc), but they grow naturally in the countryside. Also, because the spores don't contain Psilocybin, it's not illegal to buy them (usually in a solution). Germinating them is illegal.

No-Relationship8261

Trump doesn't like UK -> Half of USA doesn't like UK. Direct causation. If Trump starts liking UK, we will suddenly have a so many fans.

BlueberryConnect9115

Thanks for replying, perhaps it's just an internet thing but I'm definitely seeing more UK hate that goes beyond friendly banter.

-axelrod

Thanks for the update! I've been following your posts on GRPN recently and taken a small position so far after Thursday's action. I'm from the UK so the SumUp aspect has always been the key aspect to me, however the moves to leverage AI will hopefully decrease their Opex as well as their share buyback program. I wasn't sure if they were cancelling shares as part of the buyback, or just using it to fund SBC.

iqTrader66

Forget Iran. Trump made “legal” deals with the the UK and the EU. How are these going because we’re going back to square one. Fact is no world govt can negotiate with the current US.

erok_the_red

Ukraine had nuclear weapons and gave them up for security assurances from the US and UK.

bdd6911

Ah. Was only the UK as well? I thought more of Europe was in the deal. Regardless. Horrible for Ukraine and shameful they were left out to dry. Bullshit.

DesignatedControvert

Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons left on its territory after the collapse of the USSR. In return, Russia, the US, and the UK gave Ukraine **security assurances** regarding its sovereignty, borders, and independence. these were **assurances**, not a NATO-style military defense guarantee.

Trashpanda7193

In the UK a meal at Wendy’s is £10, a McDonald’s meal is around £7- I still feel hungry after McDonald’s. To eat an average restaurant here you’re paying around £12/£14per dish - so here in the UK i think they’ve hit the sweet spot. Also McDonald’s has become a shite hole.

Trashpanda7193

UK here, tried a Wendy’s for like the second time. It’s actually far better than McDonald’s and Burger King and not much more expensive. Also in the sweet spot where it’s not crazy expensive like five guys. I’d invest but I know this is all gonna rug pull the apes

dAn_tHe_mAn7

Its not just the US, they have a big presence in the UK and other parts of Europe too

Smasher_1909

Yeah in the UK you’d get arrested for insider trading! That’s what you’ve done and I hope the US arrest you for conflict of interest as you should not be awarding contracts if you own shares in those countries! You’re a criminal end of!

CryanRohen

UK heat?

ProfPatrickBoyle

UK. See the tube sign and the bus up right ? Bikers taking a break BTW.

NotreDameAlum2

SGOL holds its physical gold in secure vaults located in London, UK, and Zurich, Switzerland. Each share represents a specific fractional ownership in this metal, and the custodian (JPMorgan Chase) conducts daily audits to ensure the gold is properly allocated and matches outstanding shares. Because it is structured as a grantor trust, the fund's trustees are legally prohibited from leasing or lending out the underlying physical gold, meaning the shares are strictly tied to the actual bullion. 

Whipitreelgud

Appreciate the luv for WEN, but are they in the UK?

Clearandblue

I don't know what you mean by "China". Who knows, there's innovations coming from everywhere. The current step was developed from international authors: 2 from India 1 from the UK 1 from Canada 1 from Germany 1 from the Czech Republic 1 from Ukraine 1 from the US

confusing_roundabout

I sold my position today, but I have an autobuy set up to short the stock when it hits 8.10. I'm trading via a CFD account on trading 212 as that's the only way I can figure out how to short things in the UK. It's leveraged shares/margins rather than calls/options. I had great luck shorting Wendy's at the 8.80 peak pre-halt yesterday. https://preview.redd.it/q94shn8efq9h1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=d58571189c164a6340c0c46050ffdc17c50dcc73

Sir_Wayne_Giggsy

Anyone in the UK without air con go fill the sink up with cold water and put your foot in there trust me

mondeomantotherescue

Yep. Diesel is £1.89 a litre near me in the UK and before Operation Stop Talking About The Files started it was £1.30. I can assure you we hate Trump voters with a passion 

Hunting-Duck

Earnings are 2 times a year for rzlv, last time was april the upcomming one is sept/oct as it did last year. Its a UK based company thats listed on the nasdaq. Source: I have shares and calls with nov26 expiry

Maj0r_Payn3

Outstanding shares is around 400 million. The CEO/owner owns over half of shares so 50% is locked up (as he is not going to sell below 50% ownership) Public float is more like 200 million with 50 million shares shorted. So interest is probably closer to 20%. Institutions hold about 40-50milliom shares as well. So public float even lower with institutions. (A lot of institutions bought around $4) Cost to borrow has been over 50-100% APR for about 10 days now. Not a lot of shares available. High call options for July 17. Revenue exploding YoY. Should announce profitable this H1 or H2 (only reports twice a year because UK company). Share buy back goes into vote in June 30 then can start buying back shares around Aug.

Rough_Champion7852

Mothercare… no idea but a big fancy suiss bank just bought a big stake in the previous UK giant. Pension problems but I believe they have the right model going forward. Shares are about 1p (0.014c). Might go bankrupt thought. Got 20,000 shares as a punt. Can’t see it exploding in the next few months to be fair. Next announcement is likely Sept 26.

jerome-yellen

Bitcoin holdings by country: US: 328,372 BTC China: 190,00 BTC UK: 61,245 BTC GO AHEAD AND SHORT, PLEASE DO 🤩

BarbellPadawan

Is it true that all public schools in the UK are Church of England?

AltruisticOwl156

I live in the UK and there are not many Wendy's here but honestly the food is good man. The burgers are banging, the chips are crunchy and tasty, the frosty is really nice and the spicy nuggs 😘 I often chose it over McDonald's...

Ok_Satisfaction9398

UK Wendy’s has deals on App……

Rudybus

Market only opens at 2:30 in the UK, you can get a solid few hours in the morning

Lordofwar314

Does the USA mainly have DB pensions then rather than DC pensions? Just curious as a UK resident where the vast majority of people now have DC schemes as DB schemes have proven to be too expensive due to people living longer than expected.

Maleficent_Owl3938

$5M is a floor - could be surely be much higher. That said, these are fairly young guys and based in the UK, not the US.

hayl4bulb

I'm also heavy in ALRT. The announced MoD contract is a trial which, if successful, could lead to much larger contracts. SImilar companies have had MoD trial contracts which then evolved into long-term contracts worth 30x as much. Their accelerator program is backed by Oracle who are pushing companies towards signing up for it. They have connections with the UK gov, NATO and hyperscalers. Easily the biggest potential upside of my portfolio. Holding 80k shares at 2p average.

db2901

European countries have terrible public finances and their voters will not make the sacrifices necessary for heavier defence spending, France in particular is having these problems, also UK. German industry is having a massive china problem which will preoccupy them more and more. Only eastern euro countries like Poland are taking defence seriously.

tuppenycrane

Only ever seen one in central london, and after google mapsing wendys TIL there are actually a lot of wendys all over the UK, really thought that one was a novelty

City-Girl-Trader

Hiya. Can you invest in UK-listed companies on the LSE? If so, I'm personally continuing to add to First Class Metals, a gold exploration company with projects in Ontario, Canada. What attracts me is the number of potential catalysts over the next few months. The company is progressing exploration at Sunbeam, Roy and Pettigrew, while also advancing what could be a genuinely innovative funding model through its binding agreement with nGRND for the Kerrs Gold project. The aim is to generate non-dilutive funding while FCM retains ownership of the underlying mineral rights. A lot of investors are discussing the possibility that the nGRND deal could ultimately bring in somewhere around £7-10 million in cash, although that figure is market speculation rather than a company-confirmed amount. If it were to be in that sort of range, it would be transformational for a company of FCM's size, providing funding to accelerate exploration without the need for significant dilution. For me, that's what makes the investment case interesting. You have multiple gold projects with ongoing exploration, several potential news catalysts ahead, and a funding model that could unlock value in a different way to most junior explorers. It's still a high-risk exploration company and success is never guaranteed, but I think the risk versus reward looks very attractive at the current valuation. As always, do your own research. They are moving to tokenising in ground gold

Damtomillion

There is a simple argument for Rheinmetall. Germany is one of the G20 countries with the least national debt (1/2 of US and 1/4 of Japan) and best credit rating. It can simply get as much credit for defence build up to counter the Russian threats as its needs- without killing the social peace in the country. In stark contrast to France and UK. Rheinmetal as largest German Defence contractor is the biggest recipient. Beside the managment if RHM is outstanding clever. P.S. Im invested and conviced and bought more yesterday.

year2039nuclearwar

It's a way to get leveraged exposure to BTC without being liquidated in tax-wrapper accounts like SIPPs and ISAs (UK)

octopus_serenader

Wendys is in Europe, but only in the UK, Ireland, and Romania. EUROPOORS FIX THIS. DEMAND WENDYS.

Here4Snow

Is English your native language? Because you've missed a few words. Wealth is for a better future. Greed is for right now, immediate gratification.  Not spending mindlessly, but being "mindful" of your decisions with spending.  "I literally invest everything because I have NOTHING else in my life." That's not true, stop belittling yourself. You could throw it away downtown every night and rent temporary friends. When the money is gone, so are they.  You respect yourself for what you can accomplish, and do not need flash to dazzle people. A lot of people think too much about what others might think about ourselves. If you get to know them, it turns out they're just trying to survive day to day insanity and troubles, like a lot of us. They really don't think about your life, unless you are in trouble. That's when you find out who are your true friends, and money doesn't have anything to do with it. There was a TV show in the UK with a good looking woman and a fat short balding man. When they marry, her friends are confused. She tells them, "He may look like a frog, but he's my frog for life." No need to be judgemental.  You need to enjoy your life more. That doesn't mean spending. It means, get out of your head, start living with your heart. You can't be worthy of anyone else's love if you aren't worthy of your own. 

Waiting4Reccession

Its my opinion that such differences are just part of a larger normalization that's happening. Every country in the west has a slightly different flavor of police state encroachment, but over time they will all converge. You can see how the UK has now forced through their "social media ban" for under 16, which is the same as what Australia did a year or two back. Its really just to anonymize internet usage and tie everything to real ID

Strangedreamest

We have Wendy’s in UK

AprilsSecretAccount

In the UK, baseball is known as American Cricket.

vava2603

Japan just doesn t have the money …. lol. Current state of Japan finance is like UK with Liz Truce

Significant_Cow_2653

Looks good!! https://www.getblubird.com 🚀 the UK version of Securitize 👀

himynameis_

Indeed they are treating it like a vital piece of infrastructure and do not want to be dependent on other nations. Europe seems to be moving slow though. As is Canada. UK has their own problems 😂

bodacious-burger-boy

I would've bought ADTX last week but since I live in the UK there's no platform that allows me to buy it. Lololol

forwheniampresident

I hate that I‘m responding to this ragebait but wtf are you talking about? Mention pickpockets when talking about crime lmao yeah I get that you wanna do that when the America‘s have the highest murder rate in the world and Europe has by far the lowest. Let’s keep focusing on petty crime in Italy (not sure why you talk about pickpockets in particular if you’ve been to France, UK and Germany which do not have specifically high pickpocket rates. But we all get that you base your opinion off of Reddit posts lmao) rather than murder in Baltimore (historic low is x25 the murder rate of Germany). And let’s not start about human trafficking and other serious crime in Asia, especially Southeast Asia. To even entertain the comparison with Europe is laughable in itself.

Rosella2562

Guys I’ve had exactly $0 in my account for a week and had deposited a tax refund cheque (UK) which was supposed to clear today but still hasn’t so can’t trade today either 😔 Buy calls on my behalf too please, good luck everyone 🙏🏻

NurUrl

UK mate.... if we could sell the second coming of ARM we will do it... we so cooked

Accidental-Genius

The UK that left the EU, has a crumbling healthcare system, attempted beheadings, and an entire government department to enforce a licensing regime for televisions?

unclefire

In the UK fries are called chips. So rotating from chips to chips.

PlatesSpinning

The UK branches are struggling. It just tastes bad sorry.

barnshaw292

I think around 9.30pm UK time, after market closes sadly

Unknownlegend6

What UK time does MU earnings release? I assume just beating expectations won’t be enough, it would need to be a massive beat

-mini-kuma

US citizens cannot buy EU listings of SK Hynix? HY9H ticker (available on UK ISA)

House_Of_Thoth

Slow burn buying dips and selling highs on RR for me as a UK investor. That's a long term hold though, I have looked at BWXT and a few others before

mondeomantotherescue

Why the fuck did he think they went up? Diesel is £1.89 a litre in the UK thanks to this cunt and his cult of performing seal voters 

dogfoodengineer

china is rapidly adopting renewables, this was war has catalysed other countries to accelerating efforts. In the UK we are spending big on improvements to grid and energy storage to reduce gas peaking and increase electricity use for heating and transport. Turns out relying on Russia for gas was a bad idea.

Niight_Hunterr

OP hasn't ever been to the UK where every tom dick and harry is signing up for Costco every single day, regardless and it hasn't impacted costco

Rogue_Mang0

Locked for UK, close only!

TheHyperboley

The US and UK have already conditionally agreed to let it go through, no date set, but sometime in Q3 is likely

saintmitchy

I need to find a way to invest in the UK's air conditioning industry

Year3030

I've been checking out UK Tinder, not so hot bruh haha

harpers25

What I said is that fast track entry isn't new. "Since 2017, CRSP indexes have included newly public companies on the fifth trading day after listing." https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/how-will-mega-ipos-change-face-us-stock-market FTSE *Russell* added fast track for US indexes. VT is FTSE Global. “FTSE Global Equity Index Series and the FTSE UK Index Series already have a Fast Entry Rule." https://www.lseg.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/ftse-russell/2026/ftse-russell-introduces-ipo-fast-entry-enhancements-for-russell-us-indexes

Funny-Bit-4148

Anything a common man do protect himself? I have my savings in bank, not much but significant for me. Location: UK

confused_teabagger

Hey, did you know that in the UK some guy did a thing and some other guy did a thing and everyone was like ok? Is that why the tech sector is down today?

BigFaithlessness618

Interesting US or UK ?

BigFaithlessness618

It will be an Office tool. I work in a large UK bank and they are already using Copilot to automate alot office tasks, you pretty much don't see a PowerPoint that not written by AI as a base or an email which hasn't been out through AI. Basically now I don't have to spend 5 minutes writing a reply which makes sense I put my thoughts into copilot and it writes a good response. I'm still making the decision but not having to write a coherent reply.

Bob_the_peasant

They sell chips in the UK