{"id":89574,"date":"2018-05-26T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/us-tech-giants-dont-just-have-your-data-they-are-in-your-pension-too\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T07:04:19","slug":"us-tech-giants-dont-just-have-your-data-they-are-in-your-pension-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/us-tech-giants-dont-just-have-your-data-they-are-in-your-pension-too\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech giants don\u2019t just have your data \u2013 they are in your pension too"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBritish pension funds are so globalised, there\u2019s little chance of them avoiding investing in Facebook and GoogleThe population of the US, at 325 million, makes up just over 4% of the world\u2019s total population. But its stock market, fuelled by the rise of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, comprises 60% of the value of all shares traded on the planet. The Dow Jones index of Wall Street-traded companies stood at 16,000 in early 2016, but is about 25,000 now. And the Nasdaq index of tech shares has nearly doubled in just two years. Together, Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook are now worth $3tn (\u00a32.2tn). Meanwhile, closer to home, the FTSE 100 earlier this week hit a record high.Is this a bubble? And is there anything the average person can do to protect themselves? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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British pension funds are so globalised, there\u2019s little chance of them avoiding investing in Facebook...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-niK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81103,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/office-space-hard-to-find-as-tech-firms-from-amazon-to-facebook-settle-in-seattle\/","url_meta":{"origin":89574,"position":0},"title":"Office space hard to find as tech firms from Amazon to Facebook settle in Seattle","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It\u2019s not just housing prices: Seattle is not the bargain it used to be for companies, either. 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