Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Last weekend we saw that the week-over-week average of the eight indexes on our watch list was -1.10%. But global markets are back in rally mode. Over the past five sessions that average has soared to...

There is still no end in sight in the rally on Wall Street. The major US indices have hit new 2016 highs today, with financials leading the charge. Sentiment has been boosted by several factors...

Sentiment is bullish but the Top 20 Differential is overbought at 3.7%. In an uptrend an overbought Top 20 Differential means the blue chips have risen too far too fast. In general it’s a short...

The FTSE 100 traded at it’s highest level of the year today, boosted by improving Chinese trade data released overnight. The general market sentiment has risen markedly of late as a resurgent...

European shares were lower on Thursday morning as a dip in the oil price and soft earnings from Burberry (LON:BRBY) pulled the FTSE 100 off its 2016 high ahead of the Bank of England policy...

What sell-off? Bear who? All is rosy again in financial markets following a surge in risk-taking yesterday that catapulted UK and global stocks back into the black for 2016. The FTSE 100 as well as...

Tesco (LON:TSCO) has reported an encouraging set of results that has seen a return to full-year profits and the first quarter of UK sales growth in three years. Operating profits of £944m for...

An improvement in Chinese trade data coupled with new 2016 highs for the price of oil are setting European markets up for a higher open on Wednesday.Chinese exports jumped 18.7% y/y in March whilst...

UK stocks steadied as European bourses saw modest gains on Monday, at the beginning of what promises to be a busy week of US corporate earnings, Chinese economic data, IMF forecasts and culminating in...

Last weekend we saw that the week-over-week average of the eight indexes on our watch list was -0.14%. Over the past five sessions that average has dropped to -1.10%. The UK's FTSE 100 posted the only...

For over five years now one of the UK’s favourite and long standing retail brands, Marks and Spencer (LON:MKS) has been trading in the shadows of its more adaptable and smaller retail peer Next,...

A jump in the price of oil and surprisingly positive service sector data from China has helped lift European shares off three-week lows on Wednesday. The American Petroleum Institute reported a 4.6m...

European equity markets fell sharply this morning and are only modestly off their earlier lows at the time of this writing. Traders responded to yesterday’s big drop in oil prices and a retreat...

Today marks the last trading day of March and also the end of first quarter of 2016, and what a roller-coaster quarter it has been for U.S. and global equities! A big sell-off at the start of the year...