Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Earlier in the year, coronavirus-fueled panic buying put supermarkets in the headlines. As a result of the pandemic, the food industry and online shopping have become increasingly important to people...

The FTSE has already been busy, swinging up and down this Friday as the markets digest a report out of Japan that Shinzo Abe is preparing to resign due to health reasons. With the Nikkei taking a...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell brought a new policy approach on the table at yesterday’s Jackson Hole meeting, tweaking the Fed’s inflation target from 2% to ‘2% over...

Lacking the tech support of its Nasdaq and S&P peers, the Dow Jones nevertheless opened sharply higher following Jerome Powell’s online Jackson Hole address.Confirming what has been...

Stocks are in the red after the much awaited update from Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve.Europe The central banker announced the Fed would adopt an average inflation target of 2%. The...

While US stocks—at least since the March bottom—have bestowed investors with the best returns in decades, on a year-to-date basis their performance has been mixed. Within that framework,...

Wall Street rolled on with another record day. The S&P hit its fourth straight closing high and the Nasdaq set its 39th closing high YTD as investors remained focused on big tech and large cap...

For long-term income investors, the post pandemic environment has made it difficult to find safe, high-yielding dividend stocks.Many blue-chip dividend stocks were forced to cut or freeze their...

Much like on Wednesday, the markets are opting for caution this Thursday morning, eagerly anticipating this afternoon’s Jackson Hole appearance from Jerome Powell. The Federal Reserve chief is...

European equity markets are largely in positive territory as the trading session draws to an end.Europe The FTSE 100 is flat as internationally exposed stocks like British American Tobacco (LON:BATS),...

It remained a mixed, uninspired session on Wednesday, investors choosing to sit on their hands ahead of the Jackson Hole Symposium in the second half of the week. The Dow Jones was one of the less...

Stock market history was made yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s oldest surviving component, Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), was kicked off the mega cap index, put out to pasture as the...

This week hasn't had a good start for oil supermajor Exxon (NYSE:XOM), as the world’s most famous equity benchmark, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, removed the oil giant from the meg cap...

Earnings from the U.S. tech sector have all but wound down, but results this week are due from a variety of high-flying cloud-computing software companies.Cloud-related software ETFs are trading near...