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
Investors are bearish but no sign of a ‘perfect low’Fund managers are steering clear of stocks and are especially wary of the world’s biggest market, with allocations to the US falling to 18-year lowsTue Mar 28 2023 - 04:30
Bank collapse blamed on wokenessDiversity in the Silicon Valley Bank boardroom cited by some as a ‘distraction’Tue Mar 21 2023 - 05:15
Banking woes catch markets off guardForecasting is a tricky business which is why investors should stick to their long-term plans in turbulent timesTue Mar 21 2023 - 05:00
Fed faces rate-hiking dilemmaBanking sector jitters lead to calls for restraint but inflation still hasn’t gone awayTue Mar 21 2023 - 04:45
Are more ‘financial flameouts’ coming?Analysts say volatility in bank share prices resembles past eras of generalised market stressTue Mar 21 2023 - 04:30
Time heals wounds for investorsThe S&P 500 is up 490% since the market bottomed out during the global financial crisis, or 13.5% annualisedTue Mar 14 2023 - 05:15
Good and bad news for active funds Percentage outperforming in 2022 was the highest in 13 years but investors were still better off in index fundsTue Mar 14 2023 - 05:00
Trend followers stay positive on stocksS&P500 trading above its 200-day moving average is not what a normal bear market rally looks likeTue Mar 14 2023 - 04:45
Investors debate US Fed’s next moveFed chief Jerome Powell spooked investors last week, saying he was ‘prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes’Tue Mar 14 2023 - 04:30
Shine comes off vaccine stocksNovavax had a terrible week while Pfizer and Moderna are well off their pandemic highsTue Mar 07 2023 - 05:15
Don’t be blinded by US ‘success bias’A dollar invested in US equities in 1900 would be worth $2,024 today, compared with $176 for an investment in stocks from the rest of the worldTue Mar 07 2023 - 05:00
Investors spooked, but market retreat is ‘healthy’Speed of U-turn in sentiment is marked given the modest nature of the 6% pullback in the S&P500Tue Mar 07 2023 - 04:45
Will high yields hurt demands for stocks?The S&P 500′s dividend yield is just 1.7%, compared with more than 5% for ‘almost risk-free’ six-month treasury billsTue Mar 07 2023 - 04:30
Will a US recession prolong the bear market? Markets have started pricing in rate hikes much earlier than normalTue Feb 28 2023 - 05:20
Don’t wait too late to invest Mountain of academic evidence confirms market timing is a tricky businessTue Feb 28 2023 - 05:15
No need to panic over stocks ‘death zone’ warningAnalysts’ dramatic language confuses prediction of earnings recession because of over-earning enjoyed during CovidTue Feb 28 2023 - 05:00
Good news is bad news for stocksContinued economic strength means inflation is not coming down quickly enoughTue Feb 28 2023 - 04:30
Tax treatment of exchange-traded funds has to changeHigher tax rate can encourage investors either to take bigger risks, or leave cash earning nothing on depositTue Feb 21 2023 - 05:01
Investors shrug off lacklustre earnings Forward earnings growth has turned negative which has happened four times since 2000, with stocks seeing significant downside each timeTue Feb 21 2023 - 04:45
Pain trade is still up for stocksCash allocations may have fallen, but they remain well above historical averagesTue Feb 21 2023 - 04:30
Momentum bodes well for stocksThe S&P 500 index has registered 10 consecutive days above its one-year moving averageTue Feb 21 2023 - 04:01
Tech stocks enjoy big rebound despite poor earningsStocktake: Signs of hope after a rough 2022 but stocks are unlikely to sustain strong performance in a high interest-rate environmentTue Feb 14 2023 - 04:00
Market behaviour looks increasingly bullish At its recent peak, the S&P 500 was 20.1 per cent above its October low and rally has lasted four months nowTue Feb 14 2023 - 04:00
Stocktake: Have investors overreacted to Microsoft’s ChatGPT threat to Google? Alphabet shares lost $100bn in value last week after Google’s chatbot Bard made an error in a promotional videoTue Feb 14 2023 - 04:00
High levels of trading could augur well for stocks Stocktake: Analyst points to intraday gains on 12 days out of 13, which is rare and a feature of a bull marketTue Feb 14 2023 - 04:00
