Stock market gains largely driven by ‘surging seven’ of Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and AlphabetStocktake: Market breadth finally appears to be improvingTue Jun 20 2023 - 05:00
Is the bear market ‘officially over’? Stocktake: It sure looks that way given that the S&P 500 has risen more than 20% since bottoming last OctoberTue Jun 20 2023 - 05:00
Fund manager sentiment is still ‘stubbornly low’ Stocktake: Investors have piled into tech stocks in a ‘flight to safety’ but are cautious about equities in generalTue Jun 20 2023 - 04:00
Most stocks – in Ireland and beyond – are flopsJust five stocks – CRH, Ryanair, Kerry Group, Flutter, and Kingspan – account for all wealth created on Dublin exchange over 30 years to 2020Tue Jun 13 2023 - 05:15
Does Nvidia’s heady valuation actually matter?AI chipmaker may go on to justify its valuation but analysts are right to urge cautionTue Jun 13 2023 - 05:00
Mega-cap stocks are trouncing smaller stocksCurrent performance differential ‘ranks amongst the most extreme readings’ in market historyTue Jun 13 2023 - 04:45
Fears of a profits recession are easing Earnings estimates did come down in April and May, but only by 2% which is less than comparable periodsTue Jun 13 2023 - 04:00
US debt ceiling deal is no cause for cheerMarket analysts fear deal will add to growth challenge for economy and risks adverse ratings attentionTue Jun 06 2023 - 05:15
Analysts divided over narrow market rally Narrow leadership has historically been ‘a hallmark of late-stage bull markets’, says UBSTue Jun 06 2023 - 05:00
A tale of two stock markets: breadth ‘awful’ as seven tech stocks skew the pictureThe S&P 500 is up 9% this year, but those gains are a remarkably top-heavy affairTue Jun 06 2023 - 04:45
Almost all markets retreated in MayOnly the strength of the mega-caps kept the S&P 500 in the blackTue Jun 06 2023 - 04:00
Big tech dominance poses risks for US market Nvidia may well continue to justify its rich valuation but the increasing dominance of mega-cap stocks is concerningTue May 30 2023 - 05:00
Dividends are key to long-term stock returns Adjusted for inflation, £100 invested in the UK stock market in 1945 would have grown to £5,636 if dividends were reinvested, compared to just £215 if they were notTue May 30 2023 - 04:45
Stock market trend may have changed In 20 previous instances where the index’s 200-day moving average rallied after hitting a 52-week low, stocks were higher a year later, averaging gains of 18.2%Tue May 30 2023 - 04:30
Don’t be misled by German stock market rally Make sure you compare like with like: in price terms, the German index has basically gone nowhere over the last 23 yearsTue May 30 2023 - 04:00
Can European stocks keep outperforming? Europe’s stock market is more diversified and its leadership broader than the ‘highly concentrated’ US marketTue May 23 2023 - 06:00
Top-heavy market rally may be more fragile than it appearsApple is now worth more than the 2,000 companies that make up the small-cap Russell 2000 indexTue May 23 2023 - 05:00
Fund managers still sceptical about stocksEquity allocations have been ‘creeping higher’ and are now at five-month highs as investors bet on a soft landingTue May 23 2023 - 04:45
Elon Musk is still not ‘reading the room’Tesla boss will still be heavily involved at Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, will continue tweetingMon May 22 2023 - 06:00
Mounting cash pile could be bullish for stocks A record $5.3 trillion is parked in US money market funds, data showsTue May 16 2023 - 05:55
US debt ceiling debate poses risks for marketsStocktake: Markets might appear unconcerned but there is potential for volatilityTue May 16 2023 - 05:00
Druckenmiller sees lost decade ahead for stocks Investor has a long history of making dramatic predictions that turn out to be incorrectTue May 16 2023 - 05:00
Tech stock earnings exceed expectations Seven mega-cap stocks were responsible for almost all the S&P 500′s gains in 2023Tue May 16 2023 - 05:00
Short sellers take on Carl IcahnHunter becomes the hunted as Hindenburg Research report hits Icahn Enterprises share priceTue May 09 2023 - 05:00
April a sleepy month for stocksStocktake: Welcome calm for investors after the market turbulence of last yearTue May 09 2023 - 04:45
US earnings season: good, but not greatEarnings beat rate is high because analysts ‘clearly went too far’ when slashing estimates earlier this yearTue May 09 2023 - 04:30
Will the Fed pause become a Fed pivot? Investors might do well to keep an open mind and heed Powell’s wait-and-see messageTue May 09 2023 - 04:00
Stocktake: Buying the dips beats buying into momentumStudy shows buying after market falls is a smart option, but buy-and-hold investors perform best of allTue May 02 2023 - 05:15
European stocks poised to outperform the US Europe has generally traded at a discount to the US, but today’s valuation gap is especially notable and market history suggests Europe now is a better betTue May 02 2023 - 05:00
Stocktake: Tech giants are surging ahead as they beat analysts’ earnings expectationsBig tech bests analys expectations after largely missing estimates over the last four quartersTue May 02 2023 - 04:45
Stocktake: A handful of tech giants are driving almost all US market gainsAnalysts say gains are largely linked to firms with AI technologies and are concerned by market’s extreme imbalanceTue May 02 2023 - 04:00
Earnings season gets under way Percentage of companies beating estimates is the highest in over a decadeTue Apr 25 2023 - 05:00
Six-month rally augurs well for stocksStocks have been stuck in a trading range for months with the index currently near the top of that rangeTue Apr 25 2023 - 04:45
Fund managers are increasingly bearishManagers may reverse course and start buying if the ‘consensus lust for recession’ is not immediately satisfied in the second quarterTue Apr 25 2023 - 04:20
THG chief’s online rant is misplacedOnline retailer rails against shorting that did not become a significant feature until its third profit warning in a yearTue Apr 25 2023 - 04:00
Emerging markets: less risk, more reward Huge outperformance of American indices means your global investment portfolio may be less diversified than you thinkTue Apr 18 2023 - 05:15
Hedge funds are betting stocks will fall Contrarians will be hoping another short squeeze fuels the next leg up in marketsTue Apr 18 2023 - 05:00
Big tech stocks driving market gains In previous years where Nasdaq gained 10%-25%, median number of stocks accounting for half those gains was threeTue Apr 18 2023 - 04:45
European investors ‘too ebullient’Europe still has ground to make having underperformed US for many years but some analysts say markets are exposedTue Apr 18 2023 - 04:30
Investors prefer early alphabet stocks, but why?There must be better investment short cuts than buying a stock because it begins with the letter ‘A’Tue Apr 11 2023 - 05:15
More downside risk for stocks? The yield curve has never remained inverted six months after a major bear market bottomTue Apr 11 2023 - 05:00
Range-bound market defies bulls and bearsKeep an open mind on whether eventual breakout from trading range will be to the upside or downsideTue Apr 11 2023 - 04:45
Narrow rally ‘raises the stakes’ for tech stock earnings seasonMega-cap strength is masking broader weakness across stock market indicesTue Apr 11 2023 - 04:30
Quarterly gains bode well for 2023S&P 500 remains in an uptrend, having never once closed below its December low during the first quarterTue Apr 04 2023 - 04:45
European stock market rally looks very different to USApple, Microsoft, and Alphabet account for almost all of S&P 500′s gains in the first quarterTue Apr 04 2023 - 04:30
Narrow market rally poses risksOutsize weighting in big stocks such as Apple and Microsoft masks broader market weaknessTue Apr 04 2023 - 04:15
Calm returns to stock markets with S&P on the riseThings may well get worse but for now, investors will be relieved March didn’t turn out nearly as bad as fearedTue Apr 04 2023 - 04:00
Do fund managers care about ESG? Perhaps notStudy found the more money a fund manager has invested in a fund, the lower the ESG performance of the fundTue Mar 28 2023 - 05:15
Fang stocks regain their biteNear record levels of outperformance is partly explained by the awful performance of tech stocks in 2022 but scale of the rebound is unexpectedTue Mar 28 2023 - 05:05
Powell is adding to market volatility Market volatility has been three times greater during press conferences held by Powell than those held by his predecessors, Bernanke and YellenTue Mar 28 2023 - 04:55
