Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

With the price of Brent crude oil continuing to fall, and the FTSE 100 back below its 50-day moving average, the UK market has had a wave of bad news recently. However, while some companies are making...

"It's murder on the dance floor but you better not kill the groove, it's murder on the dance floor, but you better not steal the moves." This song by Sophie Ellis Bextor is an apt metaphor to...

Over the course of the last twelve months the UK construction sector has been the most buoyant section of the UK economy posting 12 successive monthly PMI readings above 60, though as we head into...

A Wake-up CallIf you were expecting a stock market crash you might have thought that Tuesday was the trigger. It is too early to tell and we may not know that answer for several weeks. All stock...

The FTSE 100 closed strong on Friday boosted by the nonfarm payrolls report which came in higher than expected. Payrolls rose by 321,000 in November, way above the 230,000 estimated. This points to a...

Last year’s successful flotation of Royal Mail while controversial in terms of valuation did reawaken a sleeping giant in the form of the UK IPO market, as a raft of new companies came to market...

EuropeShares in Europe plummeted today alongside expectations of further ECB intervention after the central bank revised down its economic forecasts but nevertheless left interest rates unchanged and...

US markets look set for a lower open on Wednesday ahead of service sector and unemployment data as well as the release of the Fed’s Beige book, pulling back from a record close in the Dow Jones...

It’s different this timeThat is what they said in the late 1990s amidst the euphoria of a rising market. But, of course, it wasn’t and the market after hitting 6,930 on 30 December 1999...

FTSE 100 has been underperforming and a trend of higher weekly lows has been ended with the market now posting lower daily highs & lows which is negative for sentiment. With this in mind the...

The FTSE 100 will open lower today on the back of weaker commodity prices. On one hand the economy is not firing on all cylinders, on the other the central banks are ready to act with more stimulus....

What is it?On Black Friday, the day after Thanks Giving and Cyber Monday the first day of the following week some the best known retailers in America offer large discounts resulting in the biggest two...

6 up-weeks in a row and a gain of almost 750 Pts since FTSE 100’s October low at 6042.5 has seen investor sentiment surge above the 50,100 and 200 day average rates. However, with daily and...

The UK index is bucking the positive tone to European markets today and is losing a quarter of a per cent, as the energy and materials sector weigh on the index at the start of this week.The energy...