Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Distorted patterns lead to severe corrections. When the stock market goes up in a straight line it is always risky to go long. Markets pulled back yesterday but today they are once again on the rise...

EuropeEuropean stock markets are in the red heading into the close as under whelming data from China overnight prompted selling. The official Chinese manufacturing PMI report, and the Caixin survey of...

Data of a mixed nature has been pouring in for investors to digest. Disappointing figures from Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Samsung (LON:0593xq) and weaker than forecast Chinese manufacturing pmi data...

The FTSE couldn’t really get anything going on Tuesday, prevented from bursting past 7450 by a China-hit set of miners and some unhelpful earnings updates.Waking up to the news that the Chinese...

Shares in Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HRGV) are currently trading close to a 52 week high, with the share price up by around 4.40% to 2282p over the past week. On a one-month basis, the Hargreaves...

Shares in Experian are currently trading close to a 52 week high, with the share price up by around 2.14% to 2246p over the past week. On a one-month basis, the Experian price has risen by 11.0%. At...

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 the oil & gas...

When the going gets tough, dividends get cut. Given today's volatile market conditions, mature economic cycle, and historically high dividend yields that are often inadequately covered by earnings, it...

“At the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control.”So said legendary stock trader Paul Tudor Jones. Great investors focus on risk just as much as returns...

Screening for companies with strong balance sheets and solid dividend yields can be a quick and simple way of identifying potentially high-quality investments that might be attractively priced. One...

There is plenty of focus on China today following the news that its PMI index for manufacturing fell to 50.1 in April, which was lower than initially expected. Non-manufacturing PMI was 54.3 which...

A much-needed move higher from the pound tipped the scales for the FTSE, while the Eurozone had a decent morning for data.Though he has nothing to do with the eventual decision, the dollar came under...

It’s looking to be a mixed start to the day’s trade on Wall Street as markets digest that shortfall in Chinese manufacturing PMI which was released overnight. Earnings news yesterday was...

Germany’s two biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn), (NYSE:DB) and Commerzbank (DE:CBKG), (OTC:CRZBY) called off negotiations regarding a potential merger last week, signaling that troubles...