Following a tense week of global political worries, Brexit shenanigans and tariff wars, markets are solidly in a risk-off mode going into the weekend. But risk on or risk off, UK Index is always in a trade-on mode and there are solid bargains to grab even when markets are on the defensive. A typical, some…
What a crazy week on the stock markets. First the markets decide to go haywire over exposure to multiple geopolitical issues, then they decide to rebound and go back to pushing new highs. How are investors supposed to make sense of it all? More importantly, how do traders make money on the stock markets when…
The outgoing week has been filled with excitement and tension for European and UK financial markets. From the panic sell-off on Tuesday, to the nervous consolidation on Wednesday, to the tentative recovery on Thursday and Friday, this week has seen it all. Here’s where the chips fell. As traders returned from a long weekend in both the…
The UK Index has been rallying hard, flirting with fresh record highs, on the combined benefit of high oil prices and a weaker GBP, lifting the spirits (and investment accounts) of many bullishly-minded investors Have we gone too fast, too far? Does anyone out there honestly think that the current market rally is unstoppable and that we…
Against the backdrop of a troubled UK retail market (9:30 UK retail sales missed expectations), Debenhams only adds to the bad news with another ugly profits warning, this time forcing it to rebase the dividend to 0.5p (-51%), as some had speculated, to preserve cash. This will, of course, anger those already sitting on significant…
A while back I wrote about the confusion between what’s performing best/worst on the UK 100 and what’s actually driving the index higher or lower. Because they are not necessarily one and the same. In fact, the difference can be quite startling. Because it all depends on how big a company is in terms of…