Shares and the stockmarket

Normally people get excited by lower prices and discounts as it makes things cheaper to buy. In the case of quoted securities it potentially makes...

If a firm has a strong competitive position, which in turn grants it pricing power, there is a fair chance that the company will be...

A profit warning, a decision to cut the dividend to zero and the sudden resignation of the chief executive mean shares in FTSE 250 index...

Last week we looked at the four indicators which could help investors to spot turning points in the oil price (which is currently hovering around...

Oil prices are sliding to fresh lows for the year, despite May’s agreement in Vienna by OPEC and leading non-OPEC members (notably Russia) to stick...

No sooner had America’s technology-laden NASDAQ Composite stock index crossed the 6,000 mark for the first time in late April than two of its leading...

(although oil, the dollar, metals prices and interest rates still could)

A dreadfully poor campaign, where the slogan “Strong and Stable Government” smacked far too...

One of the most important lessons of investing is to buy as cheaply as you can (with the ultimate aim of selling as expensively as...

The swingeing dividend cut from Talk Talk and BT’s decision to abandon its plan to increase its shareholder pay-out by 10% a year...