When on furlough, start picking stocks (no experience needed)
With plenty of trading apps around, and a volatile market due to Covid-19, some have taken to armchair economics — and it’s paid off
20 June 2020 - 08:00
Stockholm — At 7am on Friday morning, Dean d’Arco, a phone shop manager from Belfast, Northern Ireland, logged on for his last day as a round-the-clock armchair stock market trader.
During almost three months on coronavirus furlough, he was one of a swelling number of stuck-at-home punters using their free time to ride a climbing stock market that rebounded after a giant slump in March...
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