UK stocks offer historic value

With global stockmarkets so expensive, UK stocks offer a rare pocket of value. 

City of London © UrbanImages / Alamy Stock Photo
The UK is being rubbished by the herd and looks a bargain © Alamy
(Image credit: City of London © UrbanImages / Alamy Stock Photo)

“Those struggling to break bad habits should take inspiration from the eurozone,” says The Economist. The currency bloc blundered its way through the financial crisis, but this time around the response has been swifter. The proposed €750bn “EU Recovery Fund”, to be financed by common borrowing, may be a first step towards easing imbalances between the north and south. The European Central Bank (ECB) has soothed markets with more than €1trn in emergency bond purchases.

Why European stockmarkets lag the US

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.