Small cap UK stocks continue closing gap to large names For the second day running, the smaller London-listed names in the FTSE 250 index continued to close in on the UK’s biggest companies, the top 100 of which make up the FTSE 100 index. The FTSE 250 popped 5.1% on Tuesday, to the FTSE 100’s…
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EUROPEAN SHARES All European benchmarks are trading significantly higher on Tuesday, extending yesterday’s gains, as market sentiment strengthened towards risk assets such as stocks and corporate bonds. This revived risk appetite, mainly built on hopes of an easing of the COVID-19 spread, is getting stronger and stronger as new reassuring data confirm the progress we…
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easyJet founder attacks airline over £4.5bn plane order, hints at bribery and threatens to sue London-listed small cap stocks partially closed the gap to the UK’s biggest companies yesterday, with the FTSE 250 gaining 5.1% to the FTSE 100’s 3.1%. The FTSE 250 was led higher by double digit gains from constituents including gambling company…
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Rough week for small-cap UK stocks Small and mid-sized London-listed stocks faced a far tougher week than their large cap counterparts last week, with the FTSE 250 index sinking 4.5% to the FTSE 100’s 1.2% drop. After UK banks were forced to scrap billions in dividend payments, we’ve seen a corresponding impact on company plans…
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The current situation of elevated volatility is reflected very prominently on the chart here. Buying volume increased sharply in the second half of last week and price has now moved into overbought based on both the slow stochastic and Bollinger Bands. There are likely to be short-term opportunities in both directions this week, but buyers…
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OIL Even the best Hollywood movie director would have struggled to imagine the last few days for oil. The dramatic scenario seen last week, with WTI falling below $20 has been followed by a spectacular rebound of 50% in just two trading sessions. This happened when markets realized that the lower price, in conjunction with coronavirus, was…
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Saxo Bank warns that equities face the worse outlook since 2008. The current coronavirus crisis comes just after the US-China trade war put things out of balance and slowed growth. Supply and demand shock come together with oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The bank expects in the worst-case scenario, that the S&P…
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UK Banks in the spotlight for dragging heels on small business help It was a mixed but relatively flat day for London-listed stocks, with banks again back in the spotlight over concerns that they have been sluggish in issuing emergency business loans to customers under a government scheme launched last week. Late on Thursday, post-market…
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Saxo Bank Group announced lower profit of DKK 40 million net profit this year, but record number of new clients in its 2019 report. Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets announced that it has expanded its Premium Analytics portal to include featured trading ideas from Trading Central. Traders can now use Admiral Markets’ Premium Analytics portal to…
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No critical data covering the recent coronavirus spread period has been published, except for the Canada Markit Manufacturing PMI that dropped to 46 from 51.8 prior, and lower than the 53.3 anticipated. The PMI is a leading economic indicator, and it suggests that the Canadian economy has slowed down sharply. We also know that the…
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