Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Wednesday’s plunge on Wall Street came as a shock and global markets are now readjusting. Sellers shaved 830 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 4% of Nasdaq with big tech names like...

Heavy selling of US equities in the latter part of yesterday’s session saw major indices tumble, with the Dow posting losses of over 850 points during the course of the day. With futures markets...

When it comes to investment strategies, ‘growth’ and ‘income’ investors tend to focus on very different things. For growth investors, it’s often the case that sales and...

Recent history has taught us to buy the dip. Even the eye-watering declines in February proved worth buying. On Wednesday the Dow Jones closed down 800+ points and the S&P 500 dropped 3%....

With hurricane Michael battering the US coastline it is perhaps apt that a hurricane of selling has hit US stock markets, as the Dow and S&P500 posted their worst losses since February this year,...

WH Smith (LON:SMWH) shares are in the red after the company revealed a 4.28% decline in full-year pre-tax profits to £134 million. The retailer cited a difficult trading environment, and the...

It was just all too much for the markets this Thursday, an already awful month turning truly alarming following an American and Asian collapse overnight.The European open was a proper, old-fashioned...

DAX Xetra (cash index)The selling pressure continues to accelerate lower as the DAX has now broken below key support to trade at the lowest level since February 2017. We were concerned that the...

EuropeContinued concerns about the political situation in Italy, and the relatively high yields on US government bonds, and the strained global trading relations have all contributed to the decline in...

Tesco (LON:TSCO) shares are still smarting after severe punishment that followed its operating profit miss last week. The stock is down 9% since Monday 1st October. Heaviness suggests investor views...

European markets are on the slide, rattled by a 386-point drop in the DJIA and a 2.47% decline in the Nasdaq. Domestic news should have been positive for the London index as the Bank of England...

In light of the scandal-ridden past few years Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) has endured, which weighed on the stock and fostered volatility, perhaps the most compelling reason to own shares of...

Even when factoring its recent decline, it has been a truly astonishing year for the media giant. Opening at $195, the company rocketed all the way to a fresh record peak of $423 by late-June, a...

The bullish momentum from yesterday faded a little with European stock indices and US index futures both edging slightly lower at the time of writing, although the markets weren’t exactly...