Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Restaurant Group (LON:RTN) shares are in the red this morning after the company registered a 1% rise in total sales, but like-for-like (LFL) sales for the 52 week period dropped by 2%. The group...

European markets have got off to a mixed start this morning ahead of today’s meeting of the European Central Bank. This will be the first meeting since the bank curtailed its asset purchase...

The pound has rallied through $1.30 and is climbing towards $1.31 on growing optimism of Brexit being delayed. Labour signalling its support for blocking a no deal Brexit boosted sterling to its...

EuropeThe FTSE 100 is in the red as there is a broad based sell-off in the London market. Energy stocks are the worst performer, and there are losses in financials, miners and consumer goods too. The...

Fears over the health of the global economy rattled Wall Street yesterday with the Dow clocking up a 300 point loss during the session, although managing to close well above the intra-day lows.News of...

European stock markets are in the red as dealers are concerned about US-China trade talks. Yesterday it was reported the US cancelled a meeting with their Chinese counterparts. It is possible that...

Lloyds Bank is a stock that divides opinion. On the one hand, there are plenty of investors who believe it offers considerable value at its current share price. After all, it’s trading on a P/E...

Last week's reports from the big U.S. banks, the first major group of companies to report fourth-quarter earnings, were a decidedly mixed bag. While JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) and Morgan Stanley...

Will Royal Mail’s shares go Postman Splat following next week’s post-Christmas trading update?Having scaled to the heady heights of £6.22 in mid-May, the stock’s best price...

DAX Xetra (cash index)The bulls took a big leap forward with the decisive breakout above 11,000 last week, how they respond to weakness will now be key. An uptrend channel has formed in the past few...

The FTSE has opened lower this morning but is starting to nudge higher on signs that the mood in Westminster is changing in favour of finding a Brexit solution.It has been clear for weeks now that for...

It’s been a weak start for European markets in the wake of yesterday’s IMF downgrade of its expectations for global growth this year in its latest update on the health of the global...

With no lead from the US, which was closed for Martin Luther King public holiday, Asian markets dropped lower overnight. The latest report from the IMF confirming the markets’ fears over slowing...

FTSE on the flatline ahead of Theresa May’s plan BThe FTSE recovered quickly from a dip on the open, rising to just shy of 7000, before moving back to the flat-line. Oil majors offered support...