Shares and the stockmarket

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

Why Wednesday’s post-Fed rally may have been a bear trap

When Jack Nicholson was playing The Joker in Tim Burton’s first Batman film in 1989, he was so well paid that he reportedly told a...

Fri, 06/05/2022 - 15:47

Five questions that Amazon must answer in its first-quarter results

Amazon’s fourth-quarter results for 2021 were weak, guidance for the first-quarter of 2022 was poor and the gambit of a stock split coupled with...

Thu, 28/04/2022 - 09:48

How to navigate the ESG maze

The performance tide has turned against ESG funds of late, as growth stocks have floundered, and oil and gas companies have profited from rising energy...

Wed, 13/04/2022 - 17:18

FTSE 100 forecast to deliver a 5.4% total cash return in 2022

The FTSE 100’s total dividend pay-out is expected to reach £81.2 billion in 2022, compared to £78.5 billion in 2021, equating to a yield of...

Fri, 08/04/2022 - 17:54

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