As we saw happen so often last year, US stock prices on Monday were heavily buffeted by headlines stemming from trade negotiations between the US and China. Share prices on Wall Street initially slumped — following weekend tweets from President Trump that suggested imminent hikes in tariffs on imported Chinese goods — but later bounced back, on … Read more
The US corporate earnings season kicks into top gear this week, with a spate of big-name companies set to report their quarterly results, including Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. More than a quarter of the companies in the S&P 500, in fact, will announce their earnings this week. So far, more than three quarters of the … Read more
We are now into the early stages of the US corporate earnings season and the big banks have delivered a bit of a mixed bag so far. JP Morgan, the biggest of the big US banks when judged by capitalisation, reported record earnings and revenue on Friday, but Goldman Sachs and Citigroup came in with … Read more
The stock market’s recent bullish run has pushed on in recent trading days, with both the DJIA, the S&P 500, the FTSE 100 and the DAX all hitting six-month highs last week. One area of support for the US stock market has come by way of the Fed’s recent more dovish approach to monetary policy. … Read more
Just when it seemed like the momentum had been lost from the rally in global stock markets, prices have pushed higher over the past week. This resurgence has been especially pronounced on Wall Street, with both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 testing six-month highs. Elsewhere, the German DAX has rallied well over 3% … Read more
We saw further evidence at the end of last week that investor sentiment remains extremely sensitive to any signs of economic slowdown, when indications of weak eurozone manufacturing led to a sharp fall in global stock prices. The February flash PMI from IHS Markit showed manufacturing output in the euro area plunging to a 71-month … Read more
Stocks have been generally climbing in recent trading days, though gains on Wall Street have been constrained by some key stocks coming under pressure. The Dow Jones kicked off the new trading week by rising for a fourth consecutive session, which came in spite of Boeing dropping 1.8%. Boeing is the largest-weighted stock in the … Read more
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Andrew2018 I closed a trade in Vodafone yesterday which I had held for a few days, but the shares did not perform as I had hoped and I ended up in a situation of break even. Sometimes I find it is better to close and try again when a stock price is not quite doing … Read more
The US stock market has been ticking along very nicely since the New Year, the DJIA surging more than 1.7% on Friday to post its eighth weekly gain in a row. The rebound in sentiment on Wall Street comes after a sharp sell-off at the end of 2017, driven by fears of slower economic growth … Read more
