Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Asian equities tumbled, partially erasing gains from Monday’s euphoria over what seemed to be a trade truce between China and the USA. Hardest hit is the Hong Kong Hang Seng index, -1.62%, while...

Sterling briefly dipped to its lowest level of the year yesterday, before finding some support and recovering as PM May suffered a double defeat in the House of Commons. MPs found the government in...

Wall Street crumbled during yesterday’s session, reversing Monday’s gains and once more posing the question as to whether the year will end on a rather turbulent note.Earlier optimism over...

Having climbed from an opening price of £4.25 to £5.02 by the start of February, it was all looking good for the AIM stock in early 2018. However, since then its year has turned into a...

European stock markets are firmly in the red following the major losses incurred on Wall Street yesterday. The declines in longer-dated US government bond yields has spooked traders, and that...

European shares opened lower across the board after Wall Street clocked heavy losses for a second day in a row. The Dow lost 800 points on Tuesday as panic started to build not only about the eventual...

Monday’s stock market relief rally rather surprisingly ran out of legs fairly quickly yesterday, with some blaming the differences over the detail between the US version of what transpired at...

EuropeStocks are lower today as continued political uncertainty is weighing on investor sentiment. The US and China have called a truce to the trade dispute, but that just means the problem has been...

There’s been some small upside seen in the pound today with the currency moving back above the $1.28 mark, aided by a softer dollar and also reports from the ECJ that the UK can unilaterally end...

The European indices weren’t feeling quite as cocky as they were on Monday, while the pound got a bit of a boost from the EU’s Advocate General.Having initially held off from posting any...

Can a freezing cold Superdry warm up with next week’s half year results?2018 has been a truly terrible year for the clothing company. Starting at £19.81, it had quickly climbed to an...

Politics continues to weigh on investment sentiment in Europe. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, will present the new budget proposal to the EU in the next few hours. Rome is locked in a...

Shares of Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) are coming back. Their late surge in 2018 has put this coffee chain company in the club of a few consumer stocks that are still posting double-digit gains this year...

Following the overnight gap in almost everything, stocks, crude and gold remained sharply higher during the morning session, while the US dollar was lower as yuan and commodity dollars all...