Shares and the stockmarket


A change of Chancellor and what history tells us about their influence on markets

The outgoing Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, may wish he’d been dealt a better hand. Brexit, covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all meant that global...

Fri, 08/07/2022 - 12:30


Best and worst performing funds, shares and sectors for H1 2022

The most notable thing about DIY investors’ behaviour in the last six months is their readiness to buy the market dip using tracker funds. Investors...

Fri, 08/07/2022 - 09:49


How the stock market responds to a change of Prime Minister mid-term

In the end Boris Johnson should - just - outlast Theresa May’s stint as Prime Minister, but financial markets are now wondering who will come...

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 14:19


How Brexit vote has shaped markets six years on

It is almost six years since the UK’s Brexit vote on 23 June 2016. As the Government prepares to scrap its own Northern Ireland protocol,...

Mon, 20/06/2022 - 16:40


How UK shares have fared during rate hike cycles as Thursday's BoE decision awaits

The Bank of England may be moving more slowly than the US Federal Reserve when it comes to raising interest rates, but the UK’s central...

Thu, 16/06/2022 - 14:01


Inventory woes as Target misses again, highlighting risk to US profit forecasts

A second profit warning in three weeks from US retailer Target would have been no surprise to anyone who could read a balance sheet,...

Fri, 10/06/2022 - 09:22


Snap share price badly bruised by Apple’s new privacy policy

You can tell a share price is in trouble when even a drop of 25% is hard to spot on the chart and Snap’s...

Fri, 27/05/2022 - 09:00


US margin debt falls again as investors’ appetite for risk recedes

According to the latest set of data from American market regulator FINRA, margin debt – the amount of money borrowed by either professional or...

Thu, 19/05/2022 - 14:00


KKR fires up a bid for power plant play ContourGlobal

Power utility ContourGlobal has hardly blown out the lights since its listing on the London Stock Exchange in November 2017 but a bid...

Thu, 19/05/2022 - 11:11


BP’s plans mean FTSE 100 share buybacks are on track to set new-all time high in 2022

The debate over BP’s bumper profits and the rights and wrongs of a windfall tax looks set to continue but the facts of the...

Wed, 11/05/2022 - 11:10


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