JohnBM:Liberal » rolling news http://www.johnbm.com Liberal Musings from the Calder Valley Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 24 Hour News – Still not enough hours in the day http://www.johnbm.com/2009/02/16/24-hour-news-still-not-enough-hours-in-the-day/ http://www.johnbm.com/2009/02/16/24-hour-news-still-not-enough-hours-in-the-day/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:18:32 +0000 JohnBM http://www.johnbm.com/?p=129 Noticed this article on BBC News this morning:

Lloyds bank shares slide further

Lloyds Banking Group shares have fallen 7% in morning trading as the bank continues to reel from Friday’s announcement of massive losses at HBOS.

On checking the current share price of Lloyds Banking Group shares at noon I discovered it was UP 2.77%

Within an hour of posting the above article, it’s headline was out of date rendering a large portion of the story obsolete.

Herein lies the problem of using shareprices to bolster a story. As we are repeatedly told “The price of shares can go down as well as up”.

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