Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

EuropeThe FTSE 100 is higher as energy stocks are receiving a boost from the upturn in the oil market on account of the Forties North Sea pipeline being closed for maintenance. Brent Crude hit a level...

Buyback eyes £1bnAshtead, which normally gets little attention outside of The City, caught the eye of a wider set of investors on Tuesday, at least for a while. Even those least attracted to the...

The markets remained a muddle of data-reactions this Tuesday, with the major indices all largely moving higher. While the pound couldn’t gain any traction against the dollar, where it dipped...

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) buys music recognition firm Shazam for a rumoured $400 million. This was not an acquisition that the market saw coming by any length. The reasons behind the purchase are far from...

After a torrid five years of declining prices, commodity prices appeared to put in a decent base at the beginning of 2016, posting their first annual gain since 2010.It was back in April 2011 that the...

It was more of the same this afternoon, with the FTSE and sterling intensifying their interlinked gains and losses. The pound was not in a good mood this Monday, the currency continuing to undo the...

Will investors roll out the proverbial red when Carpetright releases its half year results on Tuesday?After a very strong start to the year, where the stock surged from an opening price of £1.66...

No game changersU.S. November payrolls were no game changer – and that is exactly what U.S. stocks needed to throw off their late-2017 funk. The confirmed normalisation of the jobs market...

Can Sports Direct (LON:SPD) sprint higher following next Thursday’s half year results?For the first 6 months of 2017 Sports Direct was having a pretty bog standard year. After opening at...

Bit of a mixed bag yesterday as the markets recovered from their lows, but all three - Dax, S&P, FTSE - dipped below their key support levels for the day. Oil tumbled the most in two months, while...

US Markets Finished Steady As Investors Await Details on the Tax ReformWednesday’s US session had a definite wait and see feel about it. The Dow closed marginally lower and the S&P 500 flat,...

Europe European equity markets are off the lows of the session as the selling pressure that overflowed from the Asian session waned. The FTSE 100 is outperforming eurozone indices like the DAX and the...

The market sentiment improved during the Asian session sending the future rates of the US major stocks indexes up, after the selling pressure on the US Equities abated during the US session.As the...

2016 was a good year for the FTSE100, DAX and S&P500 with gains of around 10% for all three, with all the gains coming in the second part of the year, mainly as a result of a weaker euro and...