Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

My Bitcoin and FX broadcast at CME London today covers the possibility of a snap general election in Japan, whilst the Nikkei reacts to pressure taking it lower. Meanwhile Bitcoin has a long hard look...

Lloyds Banking Group (LON:LLOY) investors may be distracted by preference share concerns on Tuesday, but the cool reception to its first-quarter performance hangs more on overexposure to UK economic...

Despite plenty of reports about both supply and demand issues in 2017, Apple has another fantastic year market-wise. Opening at $116.16 the company eventually closed out December at $169.29, securing...

The European markets looked increasingly ugly as Wednesday went on, investors fearing what could happen after the US open. Despite a bevy of broadly positive updates from the likes of Whitbread...

European stock markets are in the red this morning as traders lock in their profits. The yield on the US 10-Year government bond is back above 3%, and this is also a factor in the equity sell-off as...

The FTSE 100 is trading lower by around 35 points this morning with the market looking set to end a run of 6 consecutive higher closes. The weakness emanates from the US with stocks on Wall Street...

Finally, it crossed the line. For the first time since January 2014, the US 10-Year Treasury yield briefly rose above the key 3% level before dipping lower again.Yields in Europe also rose, which kept...

Government bonds continue to fall out of favour with investors, sending yields higher. Will US 10-Year Treasuries yielding 3% bring about an immediate collapse in equity markets? The answer from today...

Headwinds from President TrumpThere is a long-standing feud between the President of the United States and Amazon’s Chairman and Chief executive Jeff Bezos. Trump’s tweet attacks have...

Despite slowing somewhat the FTSE continued to hold around a fresh 11 week high on Tuesday, coasting on the back of Brent Crude’s rise. Though its growth fell to around 20 points, the FTSE...

The fast food chain had a pretty chaotic 2017. It had hit a high of £3.95 by early March, only to plunge all the way to £2.70 by summer. It did manage to bounce back by the end of the...

Markets in Europe have picked up where they left off yesterday opening higher with the weak pound and higher oil prices helping push the FTSE100 strongly above the 7,400 level.The rise in Brent crude...

For today I am thinking that bulls will build on the break of the 7398 resistance level and we have the next area of note in play which is 7432. This area should get a reaction, and we may well see a...

FTSE closes higher as pound skids sub $1.40After spending most the day hugging the flatline, the FTSE finally picked up in the afternoon, lifted higher by continued weakness in the pound versus the...