Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

The UK election has been one of the biggest political shockers for decades, the Conservatives looks set to take 329 seats, enough to form a Conservative majority government, something that seemed...

The shock election victory for the UK’s Conservative Party triggered a rally in UK asset classes on Friday; however, in the aftermath of the election questions are being asked about the future...

After 5 weeks of campaigning the UK polls have barely shifted, the latest YouGov/ The Sun/ The Times poll from 6th May found that the Conservatives and Labour are neck and neck with 34% of the vote,...

The easy explanation for today’s rout in UK markets - the sell-off in the FTSE 100 and the rise in Gilt yields, which have managed to erase earlier losses, is election fears. The UK is going...

With General Election 2015 too close to call the scope for investors to be fearful is clear with the scope for tax and spending policies to impact the broader economy and specific sectors alike....

With less than 24 hours to go before the 2015 UK election gets under way, the UK markets are fairly sanguine. The FTSE 100 has stabilised around the 50-day sma and GBPUSD looks comfortable above...

It’s generally accepted that party manifestos usually tend to be a list of eye-catching pledges or wish lists than anything else, and while most people rarely read manifestos cover to cover, the...

The idea that the US economy barely grew in the first quarter of 2015 has poked serious holes in consensus opinion that it is diverging away from a global slowdown. US stocks are still coming to...

US markets are setting up for a mixed open on Tuesday with the Dow Jones building on a 200 point reversal seen the prior day, while the Nasdaq is still reeling from the disarray caused by the early...

TWTR Earnings PreviewThere is a new sense of enthusiasm surrounding Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), tweeting is not just a social phenomenon but can also be profitable. The stock has been on a rip, up over 20%...

This morning’s trading update from BP (LONDON:BP) managed to surprise the market and beat expectations with profits beating expectations, coming in at $2.6bn, above the consensus of $1.2bn. The...

The latest policy decision of the Federal Reserve will dominate US markets this week with investors preparing for and the meeting on Wednesday and reacting thereafter.The relatively hawkish comments...

I must confess that one of my cars is currently insured with Admiral Group, but that’s not the reason why the company’s shares sit at the top of my stock screen.The real reason is that...

The Nasdaq composite’s ride to new all-time highs is demonstrative of a new era in US tech company dominance within the US stock market. It was no coincidence that the tech-heavy index broke...