Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

There are few defensive dividend-payers more obvious than Unilever (LON:ULVR). The company’s long track record of steady dividend growth, powered by an array of defensive consumer brands such as...

Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) shares are in the red this morning after the company had a ‘mixed year’. Full-year group system sales increased by 9%, while underlying profit before tax...

DAX Xetra (cash index)A positive session on Monday and a second positive daily candlestick suggests that the bulls are in recovery mode once more. Maintaining the support band 11,370/11,415 has been...

The last group of companies to report Q4 earnings this season were major U.S. retailers, and the results were a decidedly mixed. On the winning side were the companies that have worked out online...

For the umpteenth time in several years, Germany’s two largest and most hamstrung banks could be on the road to a mergerReally this time?Shares in Germany’s second-largest listed lender,...

News of a second tragic accident in a matter of months involving Boeing's (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX airliner has seen shares in the company come under some extreme selling pressure in pre-market trade. With...

The FTSE 100 has rallied today as there is a broad push higher in financial, energy and mining stocks. The slight weakness in the British pound has helped the main equity index too. Eurozone stocks...

DAX Xetra (cash index)Selling pressure has just begun to dissipate this morning, but is this just a pause in the correction or the beginning of a renewed leg higher? The important technical factor to...

Asian markets were mixed, whilst European futures are pointing to a stronger start. Signs of a tepid recovery are setting in after the worst week for global equities since mid – December.Stocks...

DAX Xetra (cash index)This is now a key moment for the bulls as the market is testing key support and momentum indicators take a turn for the worse. Unless the bulls gest a grasp of this move quickly,...

Having been all over place in 2018, finishing December at £1.83 having climbed from £1.94 to £2.48 in the first half of the year, DFS has gotten off to a superb start to 2019....

It’s the morning after and the FTSE is struggling. The London gauge is down 0.7% after the ECB’s grim assessment of the state of the European economy yesterday and the index’s chance...

The recent rally in European markets appears to have finally run out of steam this week as investors start to take profits over concerns that the macro economic backdrop is much weaker than was...

Can Morrisons pick up a trolley full of new investors following Wednesday’s full year results?The supermarket went on quite the journey in 2018, travelling from 19-month lows of £2.06 in...