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The eight shares you should be buying in 2024 — according to the Standard City desk

Source: PA Archive

Last year was a lacklustre one for the FTSE 100 — but not if you followed the share tips from the Standard’s crack team of stock pickers. The Standard City portfolio returned almost 20% in 2023. Today we offer our recommendations for the star share price performers in 2024.

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took a hammering in 2023. in the furniture store had rallied during Covid as locked-down Brits forced to spend hours on the sofa realised it needed replacing. But this surge in demand in 2020 and 2021 was rises making furniture finance unfavourable and the stock has now sunk some 60% from its 2021 peak of 300p.

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