Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Global sales of semiconductors have fallen sharply over the last year or so. Semiconductor sales are an important global export product used in both business and consumer appliances. Therefore, they...

Wednesday night’s Dow decline, and the subsequent losses in the Asian session, led to a duff start from the European indices.The catalyst for all this was a report from the Wall Street Journal...

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) share price plunged in afterhours trade last night after the company disappointed on subscriber growth numbers. It has always been well understood that the growth in online...

European markets have opened sharply lower this morning after US markets closed lower for the second day in a row, over concern about progress in China, US trade talks. This weakness also prompted...

The index snapped a 3-day losing streak as bulls try to carve out a new low. Whilst the jury is still out for a rebound, we’ve filtered and ranked equities which have outperformed the sector for...

EPS 74 cents vs. 71 cents exp. Revenue $23.2 billion, in line with exp.& up 21% from 1 year earlier.Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) was the latest big US bank to report better than expected Q2...

Mega-cap tech stocks have come roaring back in 2019That follows a difficult end to 2018, when the group was hammered alongside the broader market on trade and rate-hike worries. Rallies of Facebook,...

EuropeStock markets in Europe are lower heading into the close as trade concerns have resurfaced. Yesterday, President Trump said a trade deal with China has a ‘long way to go’, and he...

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) says subscribers will fall 8% in Q2, just as it faces rising competition and higher content costs Understandably, investors are restive ahead of Netflix’s second quarter...

European markets have a spring in their step this morning, boosted by record high closes on Wall Street where Citigroup (NYSE:C) kicked off the latest US earnings season. The bank will be followed by...

Stocks markets are quiet this morning as low volatility in the US last night, and in Asia overnight, has spilled over into Europe. The bullish move that some equity markets enjoyed thanks to the...

A do-nothing start for the global indices left the floor clear for investors to focus on the incoming UK jobs report.Even before the latest jobs data, life continued to leech out of sterling as the...

The IPO season in the first half of 2019 was one of the busiest in history. We recently took a look back at the biggest IPOs in the first six months of this year; today we’re focusing on big...

Hopes that Citigroup (NYSE:C) could get the Big U.S. Bank earnings season off to flying start haven’t quite worked out.The $165bn lender which is around the mid-range in terms of asset size...