Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The performance of Royal Mail (LON:RMG) since its IPO back in 2013 has seen a fairly decent return despite scepticism at the time about its profits and earnings forecasts looking out three years into...

European markets slipped lower in morning trade as the rising threat of a US rate hike in June hit confidence, whilst the price of oil gave up yesterday’s gains.The suggestion there could be...

After two consecutive weeks in which all eight of the world indexes on our watch list posted losses, the past week shows some improvement. Although the average of the eight is still negative for the...

Risk was off the menu first thing Friday morning in the last day of what had been a rather volatile week for the global equity markets. Although stocks on Wall Street managed to regain their poise...

The quote continues “and don’t come back until St Leger Day”, which in 2016 will be Saturday 10th September. The adage recalls a long-gone era when the City would plan a leisurely...

If there’s a story on the stock market in 2016, it most certainly has to include shares on the mining index. Since the turn of the year, mining stocks have been extremely bullish, partly due to...

The FTSE 100 closed up near 6170; this level has been tested three times this week. In general, when a level is tested repeatedly it will be broken, so odds favour a break above 6170 today. But the...

It’s been a difficult year to date so far for the travel and leisure sector buffeted by industrial unrest, terrorism concerns as well as the Zika virus in South America, which have offset the...

European markets are broadly positive on Tuesday after data showed the decline in producer prices in China slowed whilst a recovery in commodity markets eased concerns of another rout. A smaller than...

UK and EuropeMarkets had an undistinguished finish to a rough week after data showed US job growth slowed in April, adding to concerns that the global economy has hit a soft patch. Feeble economic...

For the second consecutive week, all eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses. The average of the eight was -2.27%, fractionally lower than the -2.18% the previous week. The S&P 500 was...

European stock indices were trading lower at the time of this writing, in what has been a very bad week for equities. Understandably traders are awaiting the key monthly US jobs report in...

Markets were lower on Friday, showing typical caution ahead of the monthly US unemployment report as some European stock exchanges came back online having been closed for Ascension Day.The FTSE 100...

European markets were seeing modest gains on Thursday with a rise in oil helping offset global growth concerns brought about by a slowdown in China’s service sector in April. US oil production...