Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSa) confirmed that third-quarter net profit jumped by 40% to $5.6 billion, which undershot the $5.7 billion that equity analysts were expecting. The upstream and integrated...

As was widely expected the Bank of England have voted unanimously to keep the current policy mix in place, with the base rate unchanged at 0.75%. The overall tone of the accompanying statement was...

Having finished October on a strongly positive note, equity markets appear to be losing some of that momentum ahead of tomorrow’s US payrolls report. The rise in US markets was mostly driven by...

The FTSE rallied for a third straight session on Wednesday despite a stronger pound, jumping 115 points after a dismal October.October is traditionally a difficult month for equities but the FTSE...

SummaryHas Facebook broken through to the better side of its worst year as a listed company? Messy Asked another way, in what could still be the stock’s first ever annual fall, does a strong...

There’s been a strong rally in stock markets this morning with the FTSE 100 gaining over 100 points as investors seek to recover from the recent declines. The benchmark has moved up to its...

After a rocky first few months, that saw the stock dive to an 18 month low of £2.04 by late-March, the supermarket had settled into a nice little rhythm as 2018 progressed, eventually climbing...

With October containing as much red as the goriest of slasher flicks, the markets oddly chose to rebound on what would have been an entirely calendar-appropriate day to continue the month’s...

It looks like Donald Trump, like many post-crisis bulls, has finally realised that the markets go up as well as down. Apparently the US President is so concerned with the sell-off that in a tweet, he...

While the pound’s sharp decline against the dollar, and BP’s post-earnings rise, prevented the FTSE from dipping into the red, the Eurozone tumbled following some worrisome GDP data.The UK...

The plunge protection in Beijing appears to have done its job again in Asia this morning after the national regulator said it wanted to boost investment in China’s local markets, by encouraging...

Volatile US markets keep Europe on its toesOil stocks and miners are leading the FTSE risers this morning after BP (LON:BP) reported a doubling of quarterly profits and the best underlying results in...

Opening back at the start of April at $169.90, a decent whack higher than the IPO price of $132, the subscription service ended up closing its first day of trading at $149.01, roughly in the middle of...

With the Dow Jones undone last night by the re-emergence of US-China trade tensions as a key market mover following a Bloomberg report suggesting the White House is prepping another round of tariffs,...