Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Somewhat predictably the trade war fears draining the European session infected the US open on Tuesday. Returning from the Labour Day break in a bad mood, the Dow Jones fell 100 points after the...

Last week marked the fifth anniversary of a change in UK tax rules that transformed the investment appeal of many smaller companies.In 2013 the government gave the green light to hold Alternative...

Like the rest of its house-building peers, 2018 has been an interesting one for Berkeley, market-wise at least. Starting at £42.20, the stock had fallen towards £37 by mid-March, only to...

European stock markets are mixed as traders remain nervous about the debt situation in Italy, the poor global trading relations, and the weakness in emerging markets. The US markets will reopen today...

The FTSE 100 packaging firm hasn’t been the most consistent stock in 2018. Things didn’t get off to a great start, with the company falling from an opening price of £5.22 to an 8...

US Pre Market (Labor Day) - Wall Street holiday leaves US indices partying like it’s 1999Underlying markets on Wall Street are closed for the Labor Day holiday today, but futures markets will be...

EuropeEuropean stocks have limped into the end of a disappointing month in the wake of last night’s comments from President Trump that the EU needs to do much more to come to an agreement with...

While the Dow Jones avoided any serious losses this Friday, the European indices weren’t as lucky. The Dow managed to hang out at 26000 after the bell, its 25 points increase allowed it to keep...

Price pressures in the Euro area increased by less than expected in the month of August providing more reason for the ECB to proceed with caution as they look to reign in their expansionary monetary...

It’s been a disappointing start for European equity markets in the wake of last night’s comments from President Trump that the EU needs to do much more to come to an agreement with the US...

Will a dire Dixons Carphone fall any further following next Thursday’s first quarter update?There were points this year that things seemed to be going the retailer’s way. Opening at...

For some time Whitbread (LON:WTB) CEO Allison Brittain has swatted aside speculation that the company should divest itself of its Costa Coffee business saying that it didn’t make sense to do so...

Whitbread offloads Costa to Coca-ColaDespite a huge bit of FTSE-relevant M&A action, the European markets tumbled on Friday as Trump upped the ante of his global trade war. With the President...

DAX Xetra (cash index)An increasingly choppy outlook has formed in recent sessions, but this has come with the bulls losing their control of the market. The last two candlesticks on the daily chart...