Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

European equity markets are set to finish the week on a positive note. Europe The FTSE 100 hit its highest level since early August, and the CAC 40 registered a new 12-year high. This day last week it...

Investment sentiment was sour at the start of the year as there was a fear the Federal Reserve were going to carry out an aggressive rate hiking cycle, and inadvertently push the US economy into a...

The FTSE is seesawing with no clear direction at the end of a week that saw the index gain 6.8%, one of the largest weekly gains since mid 2017. The slightly stronger pound played a role, helping...

There’s been little in the way of let up for the UK food retail sector in the last 12 months. Having seen sharp slides in market share and share prices in 2018, there was a hope that 2019 might...

Similar to last year, the travel sector had many factors holding it back, and 2019 was a tough year for the industry, so much so that a big name went to the wall. Continued uncertainty in relation to...

Oil prices have traded in a much more subdued fashion this year, after hitting a Boxing Day low last year of just below $50 a barrel.The recovery off those lows was helped by a sharp repricing of...

As a group, UK housebuilders have produced astonishingly good financial results over the last decade.This has given their shareholders equally astonishing returns, with average share price gains from...

The sharp decline in global stock markets in late 2018 meant the share price of the house builders started off this year on a negative note. The stock prices rebounded despite that the UK was supposed...

UK firms with a strong focus on the domestic market are recovering this morning in the absence of negative Brexit headlines. A slight recovery in the pound is also helping the likes of British Land ...

Woodford is reported to be in China testing investors appetite for a new venture. Aquis Exchange PLC (LON:AQX) – Trading Update Share Price 440p Mkt Cap £119m Conflict Disclosure: No...

Having performed poorly in 2018 there was little confidence that the UK banking sectors fortunes would improve in 2019.Concerns about Brexit, a slowing global economy, and the prospect of interest...

It seems that traders are winding down for Christmas as volatility in the markets was low yesterday. The bulk of European equity markets finished in the red, but the FTSE 100 managed to close...

In terms of stock market performance this year we’ve seen some decent gains across the board year to date, despite a slowing global economy and in contrast to the big rebound we saw in the...

The FTSE has come under pressure in early trade, despite the slumping pound, as fears of a hard Brexit return to haunt traders. The UK index is down 0.1% at the time of writing.Newly elected Prime...