Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

What: Global stock markets are starting the fourth quarter in a strong position. The MSCI all-country index expanded for a sixth consecutive quarter in Q3 and volatility indices remain subdued. Due to...

UK household spending slowdown be damned! Despite wider concerns in the services sector about the impact of rising inflation and falling real wages, Greggs has just kept climbing in 2017, recovering...

FTSEWe ended September pretty strongly, with that bullish Friday as expected. Didn't even dip down to 7320 though, just straight out the blocks! Overnight we have popped above the 7400 level but...

It’s not been a particularly good three weeks for one of Europe’s biggest budget airlines, Ryanair (LON:RYA), which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past few...

The FTSE 100’s best day in September speaks volumes about its quarter and indeed how it has fared this year.Sterling again London’s equity market benchmark is looking at only its second...

It doesn’t take a genius to see that things have gone horribly wrong at DFS. While the first 5 or so months of the year saw the stock on a bit of a tear, climbing to a 7 month high of...

‘They also serve who only stand and wait’ is the last line of a sonnet by John Milton but it aptly describes my approach to Japanese stocks.I have a small technical exposure (those of you...

Clarity in TanzaniaPetra Diamonds (LON:PDL) shares have extended gains this week to almost 20% after it got more clarity about authorisation to export from its troubled Williamson mine in Tanzania....

For a while now the supermarket sector has been a tough one, something that’s only been exacerbated by the UK’s rapidly rising inflation and falling real wages. Tesco (LON:TSCO)...

PsycheWhat started as a wobble of Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) could yet turn into a broader and deeper stock market sell-off. Or at least that’s the worry expressed by some market participants...

Can Electrocomponents (LON:ECM) avoid having (Raspberry) Pi on its face following next Tuesday’s update?While – like in the first few months of the year – Electrocomponents (LON:ECM)...

After Monday’s sell-off, Wall Street opened sharply higher as downbeat tech names found support on “bargain” hunting and amid short-side profit-taking. However, the gains appeared to...

Hello to BerlinEasyJet (LON:EZJ) shares rose as much as 3.2% on Tuesday as discussions over the purchase of some insolvent Air Berlin assets reportedly gathered pace. Investors have been steadily...

After stagnating for much of the year, bouncing between £11 and £11.75, TUI finally broke through the £12 with some substance in August, eventually climbing all the way to a high of...