Tech exuberance feeds stock-market bubble talk

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) —Exuberance in the tech sector is easy to come by these days. The question for investors is whether it’s irrational —and another reason to get out of record-high stocks.

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Aberdeen AM leads FTSE100 firmly higher at midday

Rightmove says little sign of UK housing bubble

(Reuters) - Fears that Britain's housing stimulus schemes are inflating a price bubble look overblown according research by property website Rightmove, which cited evidence of strict lending criteria.

The government has introduced two schemes to help revive a property market that crashed in 2008 but, as an economic recovery takes hold, some worry the stimulus could overheat the market and pose a new threat to Britain's financial stability.

Rightmove director Miles Shipside said efforts by the Financial Conduct Authority were working after it introduced new rules following a review of the mortgage market to stop a repeat of the previous decade's housing bubble.

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