Financial Advice in these dark times

If you had purchased £1,000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago, it would now be worth £4.95.

With HBOS, earlier this week, your £1,000 would have been worth £16.50.

But if you bought £1,000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminum recycling plant, you would get £214.

So, based on the above statistics, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.