Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Big and slowWal-Mart's (NYSE:WMT) stock is a long-term underperformer. It’s well worth keeping that fact front and centre whenever market expectations or company forecasts take a bullish turn,...

There is an inherent tension in the stock market right now, on the one hand volatility remains at historically low levels, while on the other the amount of downside protection being bought is rising...

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will announce their third-quarter results on Friday 13th of October.Analysts are expecting revenue of $21.93 billion, and earnings per share (EPS) of 45 cents, and these...

For the first 5 months of the year it was business as usual in terms of the online fashion retailer’s market performance. Its January update was stellar, with a 36% surge in group revenue for...

Is pizza ‘discretionary’ or a staple nowadays? Domino’s Pizza Group (LON:DOM) is betting that Brits will decide the latter applies, and a 21% jump in third quarter sales showed...

What: UK utility companies are the worst performing sector on the FTSE 100 so far this year. As you can see in chart 1 below, all of the major UK utilities companies including National Grid (LON:NG),...

Trading downDo earnings matter for big U.S. banks right now? We will know for sure over the coming days. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Goldman, JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley...

FTSEFor today I am feeling similar to yesterday with an expected dip down from the 7530 area to test the 7450 or lower area. As such, I think an initial short off any early morning rise is worth a go....

The clothing retailer’s 2017 has been pretty lame from a market perspective. An end of January spike towards £31 was to be its year high so far, with the stock falling to an 11 month,...

Last year Booker Group (LON:BOK) registered an 8.6% increase in full-year pre-tax profits to £150.8 million and revenue rose by 0.5% to £4.99 billion. Sales of tobacco products increased...

Topping outEasyJet’s curtain raiser for results due in November shows no let-up in pressures that have crushed profits and capped revenues. Reminders of these tipped shares of Europe’s...

Sterling has dropped lower across the board since Monday with the currency set to post its largest weekly decline in a year as we approach the first anniversary of last October’s flash crash....

The company – which owns specialist brands Simply Be, Jacamo and High and Mighty – has had a year closer to ASOS (LON:ASOS) and Boohoo (LON:BOOH) than its high street clothing rivals. And...

The IBEX 35 was been hit by profit taking as yesterday’s impressive bounce back was short lived. The decision by Madrid to suspend the Catalan Parliament is a short-term solution to the problem,...