10 Jun Guardian Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets said: “Equity indices have gone for a dress-down and risk-off Friday, with major support levels breached or seeing meaningful tests. This is derived from Asian bourses following their stateside peers south as negative bond yields become more prevalent, calling into question global monetary stimulus…
The UK’s UK 100 is in exactly the right conditions for short term trading with this week’s 210pt range giving clients opportunities to go both long and short the index. Equities too have had their moments – most notably UK Supermarket shares, having picked up the baton from a blacked-out US Fed which itself is currently silent…
Golden opportunity as markets panic Event-risk and growth concerns saw markets return to worrying this week. But savvy investors are already on-board those assets that tend to benefit during times of fear, those that shine bright when market gloom descends. What stocks and commodities can help you deliver gains to offset portfolio losses? A cocktail…
9 June It was hilarious to see the now familiar old, white, male Tories that constitute so much of the ‘Leave’ camp getting all annoyed yesterday in the House of Commons . For once though, it was only indirectly related to the UK’s EU referendum. Clearly, a lot of folks failed to register to vote on time, either because they were muppets…
8 June 2016 Amid heightened chances of an ‘out’ vote on 23 June, this week sees a trio of interconnected stars aligning for UK blue chip companies pre Brexit. First of all, the godsend that was the dire US jobs report last Friday that single handedly tore up any plans the US Fed may have made purporting…
Sainsbury shares have already bid farewell to early gains of 2% to trade flat as reality sinks in and investors focus on a 6-week share price downtrend and potential for a retrace to the 18-month channel floor around 230p via a bearish flag pattern. This after the grocer reported a Q1 same-store sales ex-fuel decline…