Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Stock markets across Europe spent most of Monday deep in the red, with the FTSE 100 posting 1pc losses and Germany’s blue-chip DAX falling almost 2pc. Virtually all of London’s blue-chip...

Following on from the Dow Jones’ gains at the end of yesterday’s session, and green boards in Asia overnight, the European markets rebounded at the start of Tuesday morning.A general lack...

2019 was a pretty disappointing year for retail on both food and general, with the main headlines being dominated by business failures, CVA’s and restructurings.In terms of food retail only the ...

New Year ThoughtsCulture It can’t be a co-incidence that the companies with the most positive culture were among the best performers last year – personally. Dart Group and K3 Capital are...

Equity traders are in risk-on mode today as the US-China trade story is still fuelling the upbeat sentiment. Europe Phase one of the trade deal will be signed in the middle of this month, and the...

The FTSE is cautiously up this morning on the back of substantial optimism on global markets as the New Year begins. There is lots of strong market sentiment around the prospects of a US/China trade...

By Caroline Gerber Risk-on investor sentiment has propelled markets to new records as 2019 comes to a close. In the last few weeks of the year, U.S. equities rallied to all-time highs with the S&P...

Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), along with the FTSE 350 Mining index as a whole, has had a roller coaster year. Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) rallied an impressive 39% across the start of the year, hitting an...

After a brief respite over Christmas some of the key issues that have plagued the markets are coming back onto the agenda. While the China-US trade talks seem to have made progress the European Union...

The FTSE and other European gauges started the day higher buoyed by record high closures on Wall Street on Boxing Day. The tech heavy Nasdaq breached the 9,000 level, helping bring up its total gain...

The FTSE is making small moves this morning but as expected for a pre-holiday session, the index is really lacking any conviction. BT (LON:BT)and NMC Health are the outstanding fallers with Lloyds...

The FTSE 100 is enjoying a broad based rally as consumer, industrial, mining as well as health care stocks are higher this afternoon. Europe Market movements are low as some traders are tapering off...

NMC Health (LON:NMC) shares dived over 50% across the previous week, wiping £2.7 billion from the company’s value. Today the stock has jumped over 20%. What is causing such high levels of...

UK stocks paid out an eye-watering £100 billion in dividends last year, and the bulk of that cash came from the biggest and best known companies in the FTSE 350 - including Bovis Homes ...