Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The FTSE 100 failed to break above the 7555 resistance area for the whole of last week, despite the US rising strongly. That level still looks pretty key resistance for today, however there is much...

What: The Spanish index may have taken a knock today after the Catalan government failed to revoke its pledge for independence and Madrid’s response to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy,...

There remained a general lack of cheer on the markets this Thursday, cemented by a negative open in the US. The Dow Jones dropped 90-ish points after the bell, though managed to remain a decent way...

Buy the dip mentality put to the test on ThursdayWhile there were no major triggers for this morning’s decline, the finger is being pointed at the softer Chinese economic data and unrest in...

For most of 2017 the high street staple has really struggled, eventually hitting an 8 year nadir of 40p in early September. However, sterling’s sharp rise across that month helped revitalise the...

The company – whose other major operation is Premier Inn – has been a bit all over the place in 2017. Twice it surged to highs of £43, only to fall to 9 month lows of £35.93 in...

Trading placesGoldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) have kept sentiment on big U.S. banks aloft after both comfortably beat quarterly expectations. Crucially, and unlike rivals that...

Charts don’t get much better than PayPal’s 2017 display. A couple of wobbles here and there aside, the stock has not stopped climbing. At the start of the year it opened at $40.30; now...

FTSEWith the bulls failing to break above the main resistance area we have formed a double top at 7565 now so could well see a bit of a pullback down to the daily support area at 7449, before another...

Fairly simple plan today really as looking at 7540 to 7550 as initial support and a buy the dip to this area looks like it should then see a rise towards the cluster of resistance levels at 7590 to...

Despite a few dips here and there for the first 4 and a half months of the year Travis Perkins was doing pretty well, climbing to a 9-ish month high of £17.10 by early May. However, since then...

For today I am thinking that the bulls will take another run at the 7567 level and possibly break above it to test the resistance area between 7584 (R2) and 7594 (fib level). R3 is just above this at...

Favourable market conditions, relief on the back of a reduced threat of Catalonian secession from Spain and record low interest rates and QE combined have all helped to lift the German DAX to a new...

JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) and Citigroup (NYSE:C) earnings again lay bare the hype over potential U.S. tax cuts.Neither ‘bulge-bracket’ behemoth knocked the ball out of the park on Thursday, with...