6.5 Monitoring shares, gilts and Bank Rate
Now is a good time to catch-up again on your shares tracking activity.
Activity _unit6.5.1 Activity 6.3 Monitoring the market
In Week 2 in Activity 2.4 you started to monitor the share prices of some selected companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and also the yields on UK government bonds (gilts). You were asked to check the prices for the selected companies once a week for six weeks and enter their level in the Market shares tracking worksheet.
Remember, you can follow these shares using the BBC Market Data tool, or by picking up a newspaper which focuses on financial markets.
When you have tracked the prices for six weeks consider the following question:
What has happened to the prices of the shares and to the UK gilt yield curve?
Note your thoughts in the course forum and discuss with other learners. Although the period you tracked may not correspond, it will be interesting to compare differences.