buying shares in us companies

[limpsfield]

What do you want to know. If you want to buy shares in a quoted us company e.g. Microsoft, IBM, GE etc you can usually use any big standard UK stock broker - although you will pay a bit more than for UK stuff.

There's no mystery to it all - unless I have missed the point.

[ginettag27]

Yep, as will most banks...

[thewave]

Who do you want to buy?

[ginettag27]

What's fairly priced?

Ig index is another possibility..

[LeTim]

haworthlloyd1 said:

sorry if I didn't make too much sense in the post - i meant any reputable companies that are fairly priced. I use hoodless brennan at the moment but would think about changing if there were any better ones for trading online as they only cover 500 ish foreign stocks and have to trade over the phone which costs a little more.

As for the shares i'm not going into anything too adventurous - just some of the household names that we all know

Of all of the different firms 'Natwest Online Broking' and 'TD Waterhouse' offer the best coverage of foreign markets that I've come across to date ( amongst the execution only brokers online at least ).