Our share price analysis, data and how-to-buy guides cover significant market movements in the most popular UK shares in the FTSE 100, US stocks in the DJIA, commodities, indices, and currency pairs. They are designed to help you make more informed decisions about what to invest in, what to trade, and when to execute currency transactions.
Burberry Share Price Still Suffering Despite Economic Optimism
Burberry’s share price has halved over the past year despite rising national wages potentially boosting consumer spending. The luxury brand now rests around 1,200 just above decade-old support levels that if broken could result in a further move down. UK Nominal Wage Growth Better Than Expected In the UK, wages are rising again. Latest data
Bank of England holds policy rate unchanged
The thorny question of what the Bank of England should do with the Base Rate has been answered today. Nothing. According to the BoE monetary meeting report published today, the central bank voted 7-2 to hold the interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent. This means that the Base Rate has been held at a restrictive
Barclays Recovery Resistance & UK Property Prices Holding Up
As the fervour of local elections passed, investors turn their attention back to macroeconomic data. On Tuesday, one of the more important updates to hit the screen concerns property. Specifically, Halifax, the mortgage lender, assessed that the national average house price rose by 1.1 percent on an annual basis. This brings the average house price… To
What Google’s dividend means for investors
Google is about to pay dividends to its shareholders. Is this a bad thing for the Alphabet share price and future growth of the company? From the perspective of growth shareholders, this may not be such a bad thing. For one, the Google is not borrowing heavily to pay this cash disbursement. Two, these dividends
Defensive Investing In Times of Economic Turbulence
One of the first things investors learn about the markets is to separate cyclical and defensive sectors. Cyclical stocks, they are told, behave like economic cycles. Up they go when the business cycle swings up. Down they crash on recessions. Meanwhile, defensive stocks will not go out of fashion. Their earnings are stable (sort of)
Can Japanese Yen regain it’s strength against the US Dollar?
The yen has historically been one of the most actively traded currencies in the world. It’s played the role of a foil for the US dollar, a safe haven in times of stress, and often as not it’s been the funding currency for carry trades, thanks to its low and sometimes negative interest rates. Times