Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The FTSE 100 has risen by some 25 points this morning with a surge higher in BP’s share price lifting the index back above the 7500 level. The pound is also trading in positive territory making...

Market-wise Britain’s fourth favourite supermarket – based on Kantar Worldpanel’s sales figures at least – has been a bit all over the place in 2017. Morrisons has found itself...

FTSEFor today I am thinking that we will see more consolidation and a fairly flat day while we wait to see what the US does with their rates on Wednesday and what the BoE announce on Thursday. a...

The turnaround in BP’s fortunes since 2010 has been a very long road and CEO Bob Dudley has managed to navigate the very tricky road with significant assuredness so the news that the shares have...

European markets had a fairly positive day yesterday, as we come to the end of another record breaking month for equity markets. Despite the fallout from a new series of political surprises across...

HSBC’s “pivot to Asia” underpinned profits in a successful third quarter with little drama, though a second straight quarter of higher than expected costs is a caution.Growth...

There wasn’t much going on this Monday morning, with investors arguably looking to later in the week for trading-inspiration. Despite Brent Crude keeping above $60.50 per barrel – levels...

How many friends will Facebook have following Wednesday’s Q3 earnings release?Despite repeated questions about its practices during last year’s US election, market-wise 2017 has been...

What was set to be the afternoon’s biggest story – a better than forecast US Q3 GDP number – was gazumped this Friday by the news that Catalan parliament has voted to declare...

The high street staple has certainly had an interesting year market-wise. For much of 2017 Next has been in serious trouble – a Christmas statement-inspired plunge in January set the tone of...

We have risen well to the 7500 area and there is some initial resistance here first thing. Above this then I am watching the 7525 area as there are some key resistance levels in the 7520 to 7531 area,...

The consolidation has been smashed by the ECB decision that weakened the euro and pulled the DAX sharply higher.A breakout above 13,089 has seen futures storming to all-time highs and implies around...

The European Central Bank successfully managed to announce tapering of its QE stimulus programme without causing the euro to rise or panic in the stock markets. In fact, the euro has taken a big drop...

Spanish stocks are leading European markets higher this morning, and the Ibex is up some 1.3% so far on reports that the Catalan President Puigdemont will call regional elections on December 20th....