Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Investing in equities can be a rocky ride for retail investors, but a solid track record of dividend payments is one way a listed company might look to share price volatility. If a dividend becomes...

Stock markets are largely higher today, but the move feels hollow as political and economic relations are still strained. Today is the sunshine after the rain, but the dark clouds are unlikely to be...

With seemingly little reason behind it, the European rebound gathered pace as Thursday went on – though it is worth noting, at the moment the Dow Jones isn’t looking quite as enthusiastic....

Stocks in Europe have recouped some of yesterday’s major losses, but the trade tensions are still simmering away. This morning some traders are licking their wounds in the wake of...

The stock has been all over the place in 2019. Opening at £1.13, it had climbed to a 6-month high of £1.57 in mid-March, only to tank back to £1.11 just a couple of weeks later in...

The kind of rhetoric being used between China and the US levelled-up on Thursday, with a senior diplomat from the former accusing the latter of ‘naked economic terrorism, economic chauvinism,...

European markets, index futures and benchmark government bond yields all declined further this morning, leading to a sharply lower open on Wall Street today. Safe-haven yen, franc and gold all rose...

The final group of companies to report first quarter earnings this season were major U.S. retailers, and the results were mostly gloomy. Major department stores such as Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN), Kohl's...

The threat of a new element – or should that be mineral, given Beijing’s rare earth threat – being introduced to the US-China trade war not so much suppressing investors’...

European markets are on shaky grounds and the FTSE is trading over 1% lower thanks to simmering trade tensions between the US and China. China has started making its move on two fronts, firstly...

There’s been some notable selling in stock markets this morning with European bourses trading firmly lower and US futures are pointing to a red open on Wall Street with some disappointing...

After holding between £1.25 and £1.30 throughout January, the stock sank across the first week of February, eventually slipping all the way to 95p. It took another tumble in early spring,...

Down beat economic news and the fact there’s no resolution in sight to the mounting global trade woes means that Wall Street is struggling to find much support as the week progresses. With the...

If you’re a bull – don’ t move. Bears, lean right on in as a break of this neckline could confirm a larger, bearish reversal on the Dow Jones Industrial index (DJIA). Last week we...