Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

With the world still caught in the throes of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it’s hard to predict how dire the global economy will become before it's all over, as well as which direction it...

It was a painful day for equities yesterday as traders started to contemplate the potential economic fallout of the pandemic.On Tuesday both the IMF and the OBR released awful forecasts, and yesterday...

When:21st April 2020, after market close.Expectations:EPS $1.62 +113% yoy Revenue $5.7 billion +26.1% yoy Coronavirus. unsurprisingly, will be THE major theme across earnings season. However, not all...

Equity markets in Europe are firmly in the red as the warning from the IMF yesterday has finally sunk in.Europe The group anticipates the world economy could contract by 3% this year. The update was...

Yesterday’s 3% rally in the S&P did not spill into the European markets and instead the FTSE started the day firmly in the red. The ever-so-slight easing of the lock downs in Europe where...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was already the largest retailer in the world, as well as the biggest cloud computing business on the globe. The owner of this business...

When investors in the cannabis sector look back at 2020, the picture they see won't be pretty. Marijuana growers were already juggling a number of challenges — and then, the COVID-19 crisis...

Positivity from Asia overnight is spilling into Europe, with stocks set to open on the front foot after the extended Easter weekend. Less gloomy than forecast Chinese trade data, in addition to more...

When the largest U.S. lending institutions, including JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), report Q1 2020...

This year's historic stock market drop into a bear market seems to already be old news. Through Thursday’s close ahead of the Good Friday holiday, the S&P 500 has rallied about 26% from the...

For the third week in a row investors had their attentions pulled from a horrendous US jobs number by some market-lifting news. For the week ending April 4th, another 6.6 million Americans lost their...

View the estimated indices dividend drop points* for week commencing 13 April 2020. Cash index / Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Canada 60 0.02 0.01 0.01 Euro 50 0.71 ...

Several European countries are gingerly making steps towards reopening parts of their businesses and restarting schools from next week, providing hope that at least in some parts of the continent...

Once again choosing to turn a blind eye to the negatives, the European indices picked up the baton left by the Dow Jones last night, continuing to rebound sharply higher. Though Wednesday saw another...