Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

US markets look to open lower on Thursday left exposed by neutral Fed minutes to disappointing data in China and Europe ahead of US inflation, manufacturing and housing data and more retailer earnings...

EuropeEuropean markets continued to build on the positive momentum built up in the last few days on potential ECB stimulus and an apparent turnaround in the German economy ahead of Federal Reserve...

Since 1984 the FTSE 100 Index has risen in 57% of years in November, with an average return over the period of 0.6%. This gives the month a rank of 6th place for monthly performance. From 1980 its...

The Christmas period is always a busy period for delivery companies and this year won’t be any different. Just over a month ago Royal Mail (LONDON:RMG) shares hit their lowest levels since the...

Last week both 13-day BTI and Top 20 Differential gave a sell signal but the FTSE 100 failed to decline following some positive news coming from the ECB and Japan. When the indicators give a strong...

EuropeEuropean stock markets took heart from a big turnaround in German investor confidence on Tuesday with bullish sentiment remaining over the prospect raised on Monday of government bond purchases...

The FTSE 100 became overbought based on the 13-day BTI and Top 20 Differential last week, today these two indicators are back to neutral. This does not change the forecast, but if the decline does not...

US shares look to start Friday’s session relatively unchanged; some of the international risk has been removed from the market after better GDP data in Europe so traders will be looking ahead to...

Don’t feel too sorry for Richard Branson after the crash of his Virgin Galactic spacecraft the other week; he should be quids in after the Virgin Money finally IPOs on Thursday. Virgin Money was...

EuropeStocks in Europe took a moderate turn for the worse in Wednesday’s trading as large fines for FX market rigging at five banks in the UK, US and Switzerland pressured the respective shares...

Large fines for FX market rigging at Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) are pressuring the respective shares and setting up US markets for a lower open as investors...

EuropeEuropean stock markets were fairly static on Tuesday with low volumes producing low volatility as investors paid tribute to fallen heroes on Remembrance Day in the UK and Veterans Day in the...

At the end of every year investment pundits love to write about their forecasts for the following year. For 2014 the consensus view was that the FTSE 100 would finally break through the 7,000...

EuropeVolatility was down on Monday as European markets held their ground at multi-week highs having retraced around two-thirds of the losses felt in October after mixed economic data from China...