As I write, the week before Christmas, the FTSE 100 is up around 6% since the start of 2017. Now, you might not be too impressed by that after 2016’s performance, with London’s top index now up a cracking 25% over the two years. But the boom following 2016’s Brexit referendum is a bit misleading due …
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Support is a level at which a falling currency pair encounters resistance from the market. This happens because the number of traders who expect the price to stabilize or rise is greater at this level. So, the pair is literally supported. Resistance is a level at which a rising currency pair struggles to increase further in value. The number of traders who believe that the pair will not cross this level is greater. So, […]
With just a few days left until the end of the year, US and UK markets are close to their record highs, with the FTSE 100 hitting a new peak a couple of days ago. Despite this belated achievement, the UK index has lagged others throughout the year, and…
Today we look back at the first full year of the new-look Questor column – and we can report a profitable outcome for readers who followed our recommendations. Our stock tips have gained an average of 5.6pc since the day they were published, outperforming the FTSE 100 index by 3.2 percentage …
Equiniti Group logo Equiniti Group PLC (LON:EQN) insider Guy Wakeley bought 10,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 20th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 285 ($3.84) per share, for a total transaction of £28,500 …
Shares of DB X-Trackers Dbx FTSE 100 ETF (XUKX.L) opened the last session at $798.25, touching a high of $801.00 and a low of $798.25 , yielding a change of 0.00. The latest reading places the stock above the Ichimoku cloud which indicates positive mom…
Housebuilding giant Persimmon came under fresh fire last night for low pay rates for some rank and file staff despite preparing to reward bosses with a total of more than £800 million in bonuses. Around 450 workers at the FTSE 100 company, including builders and cleaners, receive less than the ‘real …
British Gas owner Centrica’s share price fell 40 per cent this year – more than any other FTSE 100 company. In September, a record 160,000 customers switched to smaller rivals. Last month, SSE, the second largest energy supplier, agreed a merger with Npower. Ben Wilson of GoCompare Energy said: …
Today we look back at the first full year of the new-look Questor column – and we can report a profitable outcome for readers who followed our recommendations. Our stock tips have gained an average of 5.6pc since the day they were published, outperform…
Glasgow South MP Stewart McDonald is urging his colleagues to back a Private Members’ Bill.
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4 What level did the FTSE 100 finish at last week? A 7,100. B 7,982. C 7,592. 5 More than 2,500 products have been subject to “shrinkflation” over the past five years, according to the Office for National Statistics. Which of these got smaller while their price stayed the same? A Andrex toilet rolls
London’s FTSE 100 zoomed its way to another intraday record high at 7,614.40 points in low-volume trading, boosted by overnight Wall Street gains and the softer pound. However, the FTSE on Friday closed at 12:30pm for an early finish at 7,592.66 points, down almost 0.2 percent from Thursday.
Business keeps on tearing higher at Schroders, the FTSE 100 giant reporting a 9% uptick in assets under management and administration during January-September, to £430bn. And I am confident that expansion into hot growth territories should keep inflows moving northwards. City analysts share my …
Weekly technical summary of the major U.S. indexes.
2017 been a year to remember for Schroders (LSE: SDR), its share price having leapt 17% since the start of January and seeing it take out the record levels set way back in mid-2015. The financial asset manager’s all-time high now stands at £35.27 per share, set just before Christmas, and I can easily …
Pearson (LSE: PSON) has seen its share price stage no small recovery in recent months, investors hoping that the FTSE 100 giant is finally past the worst of its long-endured troubles. The education group has bounced 30% from the troughs set in Septembe…
Pearson(LSE: PSON) has seen its share price stage no small recovery in recent months, investors hoping that the FTSE 100 giant is finally past the worst of its long-endured troubles. The education group has bounced 30% from the troughs set in September…
The UK’s leading stock index, the FTSE 100 printed a new all-time high last week. It has been steadily marching higher all year thanks to the falling value of sterling, which has pushed up earnings. More than two-third of the index’s profits come from overseas, so the sliding pound is good news for stock …
Bitcoin may be the wonderkid of the financial markets this year, with the price of the cryptocurrency, once dismissed as something reserved for the geeks, cryptography enthusiasts and the darknet, skyrocketing to unprecedented levels, alternating with…
NMC Health was established in Abu Dhabi in 1975 and operates a network of more than 45 hospitals and other care facilities across eight countries including the GCC. In September, NMC became the first company in the Middle East to be promoted to the UK’s FTSE 100 index. The FTSE 100 is an index …
Despite a disastrous snap election, ongoing Brexit negotiations, an interest rate rise and increasing fears that markets worldwide were about to correct, 2017 was a year most investors prospered. Not a single asset class delivered a negative return thi…
Financial Times: Bitcoin suffered a day of wild swings on Friday, tumbling more than 30% for its biggest reverse of the year before a similarly steep rally. The Daily Telegraph: The FTSE 100 eased off its record high in the final trading session before Christmas as the “Santa Rally” in Europe fizzled out on …
Meanwhile, on the FTSE 100, the Berkeley Group dropped 1.5 percent to 4,147.5p, while Persimmon fell 1.1 percent to 2,692.5p and Barratt declined one percent to 2,690p. With the new rules, ground rents on new long-lease properties will be fixed to zero…
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Expect volatility, but I think that adding on the dips should continue to be the best way to take advantage of the longer-term trend, as the buyers are clearly in control. The markets continue to be driven by headlines, coming out of both Brussels and …
The FTSE 100 rallied a bit during the week, breaking above the vital 7600 level at one point. We have pulled back a little bit from there as traders took profits before holiday season it says, but at the end of the day I think that the markets will get…
The FTSE 100 initially tried to rally during the day on Friday but found enough exhaustion and resistance above the 7600 level to turn things around and break down. Ultimately, this is a market that continues to consolidate and an area that obviously m…
The Spanish result is also a setback for the European Union, which must now brace for more secessionist noise as it grapples with the disruption of Brexit and east European discontent. Germany’s DAX edged down 0.2 per cent, while France’s CAC 40 fell 0.3 per cent. Britain’s FTSE100 hit a fresh record …
