Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Wall Street looks set to give back most of yesterday’s gains as markets digest both the news of progress in US-Chinese trade talks and the fact that some better than expected US economic data is...

The FTSE is trading higher but most other European gauges are in the red as the US is looking to broaden tariffs on European products including chemicals, metals, whiskies and cheese. The decision...

Equity markets have continued to push higher overnight with the S&P500 closing at a new record high, while markets in Asia were buoyed by another interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of...

At the moment May is looking like a mere blip for the Dow Jones.June saw the index overcome the previous month’s losses thanks to a dovish Federal Reserve, and now July has opened with a fresh...

It’s been an awful six months for UK retail if you believe the cacophony of negative headlines about the health of the UK economy and the confidence levels of the UK consumer and shopping in the...

As a baseline expectation the weekend G20 meeting met fairly low expectations with the US and China adopting a standstill position on tariffs, while agreeing to continue talks over future relations....

The most likely result – and the outcome considered the best possible – is what materialized at this past weekend’s G20 meeting in Japan.China and the US agreed on a trade truce, in...

European equity markets are a little higher this morning as traders monitor the G20 summit. Trade talks between the US and China will be in focus as tensions have moved up a notch in recent months.The...

Having traded at lows for the week during yesterday’s session, futures suggest that the Dow Jones industrial Average will start Friday’s session on the front foot. Optimism over a meeting...

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 Paypoint...

An optimistic tint over European and Asia Pacific markets was also reflected in Wall Street futures for most of Thursday morning. As the start of U.S. trading approaches though, futures there look...

Stocks are on the rise this morning as traders look ahead to the G20 summit which begins tomorrow. The meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on Saturday should be the highlight of the meeting of...

The Sirius Minerals (LON:SXX) share price fell to a three-year low earlier this month, as the fallout from the firm's share-placing scheme weighed on investor confidence.The fertilizer development...

Stock market snapshot as of [26/6/2019 5:30 PM]Nasdaq indices can thank semiconductor bellwether Micron (NASDAQ:MU) for an assured swing higher that negates much of Tuesday’s jittery decline....