If you had purchased £1,000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago they
would now be worth £4.95.
With HBOS, your £1,000 would now be worth just £16.50.
£1,000 invested in XL Leisure (the airline) would now be worth less
than £5 !
BUT .......
if you bought £1,000 worth of Carling Lager one year ago, drank it all,
then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would
get £214 !!
Based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to
drink heavily and re-cycle.