Investment advice

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago they would now be worth £4.95.

With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50.

£1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5.

But if you'd bought £1000 worth of Carlsberg Special Brew Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant today you would get £214.

So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle!