Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The FTSE and European markets started the day mostly higher but the positive tone is masking growing concerns over the escalation of US-China trade tensions.Now all major industries are trying to...

DAX Xetra (cash index)A recovery from the range low has failed to kick on as the risk recovery has failed to substantially follow through into the DAX. The rebound yesterday closed only marginally...

Bank of England policy decision Flash PMI data for the Eurozone, US and Japan Brazil policy meeting Brexit vote and OPEC meetings The week sees key monetary policy meetings in the UK and Brazil, which...

Commodity stocks lead FTSE higherThe FTSE along with other global indices was on the rebound on Wednesday, capitalising on the lack of trade war news to claw back some of the losses from the previous...

The market’s rebound waned as Wednesday went on, investors struggling to find a reason to keep the gains going into the afternoon. The Dow Jones, which at one point looked like it was going to...

If a recent barrage of geopolitical risk—including more hawkish Fed tightening on the horizon and the ongoing escalation of a brewing trade war between the US and China that yesterday weighed...

The fact yesterday’s Trump tariff threat remains just that – a threat – helped the markets rebound on Wednesday. Just as it avoided the more excessive declines seen on Tuesday, the...

Will Whitbread give another update on what it intends to do with Costa Coffee during next Wednesday’s Q1 results?The firm’s 2018 has been defined by the speculation surrounding the coffee...

A day after US and China trade tensions took another step to full hostility the markets managed to regroup and start afresh. The FTSE opened on a stronger note, up 0.7% Asian markets also traded...

Despite the White House heightening the trade war rhetoric with a 35-page report – the snappily titled ‘How China's Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property...

Berkeley Group (LON:BKGH) announced a solid set of full-year figures. Revenue dipped by 0.7% to £2.703 billion and the consensus estimate was £2.729 billion. Pre-tax profits jumped by...

There was no let up on Tuesday, the US open extending the disastrous trading that began on Monday. Plunging 400 points to hit a 2 week nadir, the Dow Jones was the latest index to display its abject...

The UK’s largest pub retailer brewer didn’t get off to the best start to 2018. Quickly spiking above £5.75, Greene King’s post-Christmas statement in mid-January sent the stock...

Stock markets are lower as the US and China edge closer to a trade war. Tensions are rising as President Trump is lining up tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Washington DC are turning up...