The Trader

At first blush, the stock market looks like it’s marching higher at a steady and predictable rate. The S&P 500 index is up 9% this year after notching its third straight weekly gain. But there’s a lot going…

If the end of 2023 were a party for markets, the first few trading days of 2024 have certainly felt like the hangover. It may not be an entirely bad thing if the headache is a result of investors rethinking past decisions and planning to…

The FTSE leads the way again this morning with another small rise solidifying the risk on sentiment taking hold in London. The market is up 0.25 per cent this morning although things are a little weaker on the mainland with the Cac…

Something has come loose in the UK market, like a hose pipe that was blocked up suddenly gushing forth. Another deal today for Darktrace and another record high for the FTSE 100. Fund manager Nick Train suggested a transformative…

The FTSE 100 has risen nearly 1.5 per cent this morning with positivity spreading across Europe, with the Cac and Dax also posting positive numbers. The Dow also rallied on Friday, led by the banks, but there was some weakness…

AstraZeneca (AZN), Norcros (NXR), Darktrace (DARK), Mears (MER) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM) AstraZeneca (AZN) has announced a 7 per cent increase in its annual dividend to $3.10 (247p) per share…

The market continues to rise despite some obvious risks in the week ahead. The Federal Open Market Committee will announce its monetary policy decision on Wednesday, but there’s only a de minimis chance of a rate cut, while…

Dreams die hard—and traders are still holding on to their rose-colored reverie of a soft-landing economy and a dovish Federal Reserve. What they couldn’t do was push the S&P 500 to a record closing high,…

It was a great year, one full of missed predictions, superlative market moves, contradictory currents—and one final disappointment. No matter how hard it tried, the S&P 500 index just couldn’t close at a…

Text size The 10-year Treasury yield jumped as high as 1.704% last week, the…