Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Rising ~150 percent over the past year and more than doubling since Thanksgiving -- any way you slice or weigh its breakneck outperformance, the rally in China's Shanghai Composite index has been...

The sell-off in European stock markets has been incessant in recent days, and trying to go long at these levels is starting to feel like catching a falling knife. However, some clever folk over at...

The decline resumed yesterday, the FTSE dropped below last week’s low on fears of a Grexit. I am surprised the index is not trading significantly lower given that a Grexit is a near certainty. I...

A company with too much debt is like a tall vase with a narrow base. Everything looks fine until you kick the table, at which point it falls over and explodes into thousands of pieces. In an attempt...

Last night’s speech by the Chancellor of Exchequer had been widely trailed to announce plans to make further asset disposals and on that score it didn’t disappoint. While the announcement...

In my last post, I took a brief look at the market’s defensive sectors and how they might be affected by a bond market crash. Specifically, I looked at which sectors were most at risk from a...

One of the notable aspects of the recent UK recovery has been the divergent performance of the general retail sector in the UK as opposed to the food retail sector, Over the past twelve months retail...

Last week’s better-than-expected US employment data – the Nonfarm Payrolls and Average Hourly Earnings reports – took more air out of the already thin atmosphere surrounding the US...

A pause in the bond rout that kicked-off again yesterday, ahead of the policy meeting of the European Central Bank is giving some respite to US equities before the market opens on Wednesday. The...

A jump in Eurozone inflation has caused a spike in European government bond yields that has spread into US treasuries. The fear of a resumption of the huge selloff in government bonds from a month ago...

Yesterday we saw mixed data, European manufacturing data was weak but in the US ISM manufacturing PMI was strong and construction spending surged. The S&P 500 closed up but the FTSE 100 closed...

Here’s a list of stocks you might find interesting. It contains five consistent dividend payers that are debt free and highly profitable.Companies like this are often very successful, with...

A pause in China’s manufacturing decline during May and two big possible deals in America’s tech and healthcare industries are setting US markets up for a higher open on Monday ahead of...

The share price patterns show how hard the mighty fell when market sentiment turned against them. We can only analyse the three supermarkets, Morrison (MRW), Sainsbury (SBRY) and Tesco (LONDON:TSCO),...