Stocktake: Investors should stay ‘irrationally bullish’ on stocksInvestors increasingly bullish but not yet euphoric, Bank of America survey findsTue Jan 28 2020 - 05:40
Not all European indices are at record highsLong-suffering European investors can only hope values can recover their momentumTue Jan 28 2020 - 05:30
Will the next decade be a better one for value investors?One common explanation is investors’ continued preference for fast-growing tech stocksTue Jan 28 2020 - 05:15
Markets show ‘once in 48 years’ show of strengthTime for a pullback? In the bullish 1990s stocks enjoyed five further years of gainsTue Jan 28 2020 - 05:00
Stocktake: Skyrocketing Tesla may drive ‘mother of all short squeezes’Rapid price rises prompts Morgan Stanley to issue first sell rating on stock in seven yearsTue Jan 21 2020 - 05:40
Big stocks are dominating like never beforeGoogle’s parent company Alphabet is the latest tech trillionaireTue Jan 21 2020 - 05:40
Bullish sentiment hits extreme levels among investorsInvestors not ‘overzealous’, says BlackRock chief Larry FinkTue Jan 21 2020 - 05:30
Proinsias O’Mahony: Should investors ‘drop their shorts’?Robeco research finds shorting may be too tricky even for many professionalsTue Jan 21 2020 - 05:15
Stocktake: Investor positioning is getting lopsidedThe last time investors were so exposed to equities was in January 2018Tue Jan 21 2020 - 05:00
Stocktake: Beating the market was ‘nigh-on impossible’ in 2019If you didn’t overweight technology, you had little chance of beating the marketTue Jan 14 2020 - 05:40
Stocktake: The dangers of stock tipsGiving investment tips to investors without knowing their circumstances is ‘reckless’Tue Jan 14 2020 - 05:40
Stocktake: Beware the YUCs – young unprofitable companiesIt is concerning that over 50% of private equity funding is going to unprofitable firmsTue Jan 14 2020 - 05:30
Stocktake: No hangover for US stocksFurther US and tech sector outperformance can continue ‘well into 2020’Tue Jan 14 2020 - 05:00
Ethical investors: Do they want to do good or just feel good?Studies find most of us want to think well of ourselves while simultaneously doing well for ourselvesTue Jan 14 2020 - 05:00
Stocktake: Investors should not be spooked by 2019’s big gainsA year of big gains feels out of the ordinary but is actually quite commonTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:40
Five new year resolutions for investorsReviewing predictions in a year’s time will help investors learn from mistakesTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:40
Forecasting tomorrow’s big winners in the stock marketSome of the best performing stock of the last decade was unknown entitiesTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:30
Tech stocks driving the markets higher in 2019Apple, Google and other tech companies had spectacular returns in the past yearTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:00
Can stock markets keep rising in 2020?The best forecasts are characterised by humility rather than certaintyTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:00
Stocktake: ‘Too much, too soon’ for $2tn Saudi AramcoSaudi restrictions on short selling may help keep prices afloat for nowTue Dec 17 2019 - 05:40
Paul Volcker will be missedThe former Federal Reserve chairman who died last week was a true public servantTue Dec 17 2019 - 05:30
Beware of IPOs and it can pay to be greedy: Investor lessons from 2019This year was an excellent one for stock markets despite much fretting last ChristmasTue Dec 17 2019 - 05:00
Japan pension fund wrong to target short sellersSuspending these loans will cost the GPIF about $125 million a yearTue Dec 17 2019 - 05:00
Time for a Santa Claus rally?This historical anomaly has persisted over the last five decadesMon Dec 16 2019 - 15:00
Why are drivers like investors? They overreact to bad newsIf you want to swerve in and nab investment opportunities, watch how car drivers behaveTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:40
Stocktake – FT poll: will the bull market boost Trump?US president playing risky game by using bull market as presidential rating toolTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:40
Have we just witnessed a ‘blow-off top’ for stock markets?Stocktake: Fall in early December may have signified end of unsustainable euphoriaTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:30
Are you sure you’re investing ethically?Lack of common approach makes it difficult for investors looking for ESG fundsTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:00
Most Democrats don’t know stocks are soaringStocktake: Investors’ political leanings are distorting people’s view of the US marketTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Nothing bullish about Elon Musk’s tweetsIs buying at all-time highs a good idea, and has the Santa Claus rally come early?Tue Dec 03 2019 - 05:40
Aramco – IPO of the century or a risk too far?Saudi royal family’s ownership of oil firm could become problematic for investorsTue Dec 03 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Stocks pause for breath after big rallyEpic fall for world’s best-performing stock, and why humble CEOs are a smart betTue Nov 26 2019 - 05:40
‘If you do a big acquisition, the odds are loaded up against you’The high failure rate in mergers and acquisitions has been known for 40 yearsTue Nov 26 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Fear of missing out grips bullish fund managers‘Easy part’ of rally is over, but stocks still retain potential to maintain rising profileTue Nov 19 2019 - 05:40
Should investors be fearful of Elizabeth Warren?Wall Street is increasingly preparing for the prospect of a Warren presidencyTue Nov 19 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: US has more to gain from trade war truceImpact of tariffs has fallen largely on the USTue Nov 12 2019 - 05:40
Home bias – bad for investors and bad for markets?Even Warren Buffett is guilty of home bias – he’s written it into his willTue Nov 12 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: European stocks on verge of major breakoutGlobal bull market may be under way, and why more rate cuts might not be good for TrumpTue Nov 05 2019 - 05:40
Stock market gains could help Trump secure re-electionNew paper shows link between stock market success and presidential electionsTue Nov 05 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Don’t login to your portfolio too oftenWhy things are looking up for global stock markets; and SoftBank backs WeWorkTue Oct 29 2019 - 05:40
Investors cool on overheated private equity marketsOverblown valuations mean that a ‘great public market reckoning’ may be under wayTue Oct 29 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Brexit continues to make fund managers wary of UK stocksBut is yet another decade of underperformance for UK stocks really that likely?Tue Oct 22 2019 - 05:40
Should investors be worried by controlled companies?Mike Ashley, who owns 62% of Sports Direct, pays little heed to shareholder rebellionsTue Oct 22 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: WeWork not alone in its IPO woes‘Elizabeth Warren correction’ hits markets, and earnings season likely to be uninspiringTue Oct 15 2019 - 05:40
Investors undone by elementary mistakes in doing the mathsBasic errors, encouraged by sensational media headlines, continue to distort market pricesTue Oct 15 2019 - 05:00
Stocktake: Free stock trading is becoming the new normal‘Recession risk is real’, says Deutsche Bank’s Torsten SlokTue Oct 08 2019 - 05:40
Why extrovert CEOs may be bad for businessExtroverts can be more prone to overconfidence and cause poorer financial performanceTue Oct 08 2019 - 05:00
Do stock buybacks constitute a ‘licence to loot’?Practice has returned $5tn to shareholders since 2009 but opinion split on its meritsTue Oct 01 2019 - 05:00
Is there a bubble in passive investing?Opinion is divided over whether indexing poses a huge threat or adds to stabilityTue Sept 24 2019 - 05:00
Are value stocks about to come back from the dead?Stocktake: ‘Dinosaur’ Mike Ashley; Fed ‘boneheads’; Hurricane Dorian hits investorsTue Sept 17 2019 - 13:07
