Shares and the stockmarket

At the start of 2017, India was the hottest topic in town when it came to Asian financial markets. Prime Minister Modi’s reform programme and...

For all of the confusion over Brexit, the Bank of England’s plans for interest rates and the trajectory of the UK economy (which for choice...

With the Nikkei 225 and Topix stock benchmarks touching two-year peaks, the yen at a 12-month high against the dollar and the economy putting together...

Any investors who followed the old market maxim “Sell In May” will hopefully not feel too sore, as the FTSE 100 made awfully hard work...

Neither a natural disaster in Texas, nor elevated tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, the tardy pace of Brexit negotiations or soggy wage growth worldwide have...

Back in May, this column looked at how to test whether a forecast dividend payment from a company was safe or potentially at risk of...

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...