Monday 26 September 2022

No 225: Useful place to see live market data

 IF you want to see live changes in stock markets, exchange rates, bond rates etc (and who doesn't in the current economic situation), this has a good dashboard: https://www.marketwatch.com 

You can also click through to see charts. For instance here is the "Rates" dashboard which tells us about different interest rates governments are having to pay on their 10 year bonds:


If you click on a certain country's bond, you get more information including charts. Of course, what we all want to see at the moment is what's happening to UK government borrowing:


It's going up today, but it is even more striking to see what's been happening just in the last five trading days.

As you can see, the rate has increased by almost 1% since last Tuesday.

If you want to know why this is happening, read this previous post: 




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