For better or worse, Christmas is now a season of intense shopping.

From ‘Black Friday’ in the States to ‘Double 11’ in China to ‘Boxing Day Sale’ in the UK – these special shopping festivals are there to tempt consumers to open their wallets and splash out on bargains.

Every year, these discounting programs are launched with great fanfare, wh…[Read more]

You may recall I have posted recently on CMC Markets and IG Group, in the post on CMC Markets I compared its stock price to that of IG Group and sector peer Plus 500.

Citigroup analysts have written on the new of JV operation between Flutter’s Fan Duel and Plus 500 see below….

This is the kind of deal that shines a light on the hidden and…[Read more]

Hochtief AG HOT GR, which I highlighted yesterday, in my comments on German midcaps, are up +4.70% today and have printed as high as €3.10 this morning .

I also note the positive positioning on the European Materials sector smile, of several cement names as highlighted below.

These stocks are showing positive relative strength in their p…[Read more]

A few days ago, I highlighted the gentle, but firm, recovery in silver.

That rally has now intensified.

At the time of writing this morning, the metal has surged to its highest nominal price ever.

An upside breakout last Friday was quickly followed another leap today. The metal is currently changing hands above $57.50 (see below).

Silver…[Read more]

The deputy CEO and CIO of French asset manager Amundi made an interesting observation on LinkedIn last week saying that :

“European Small and Mid Caps are dirty cheap while many of those companies are of very good quality with high visibility and superior dividend yield. It is probably the result of a lack of interest and demand by investors…[Read more]

The start of a new month provides traders and investors with an opportunity to look back over the prior period to examine what worked and what didn’t.

In the images below we see data compiled by S&P DJI for both European and the US markets,

One thing that stands out to me is the rebound in dividend related styles / factors in both tables.…[Read more]

While Nvidia retreats, other AI behemoths are taking up the mantle. The AI juggernaut continues to power ahead.

One of the general market observations is that stocks, even if they are in the same sector, do not peak simultaneously. Some earlier; some later.

During the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/8, for example, Bear Stearns and Lehman…[Read more]

In yesterday’s much-delayed Autumn Budget, the embattled Chancellor omitted a raid on UK banks (via a levy). Investors immediately cheered.

Share prices of UK banks started rising shortly after 12pm. This upward momentum carried on to the morning of Thursday.

If we plot the charts of the big three domestic bank stocks, their well-defined u…[Read more]

You may recall that in a comment about CMC Markets CMCX LN just under a week ago , I highlighted that IG Group IGG LN were among the most oversold UK Stocks .

Well the stock price has started to address that statistic today, rallying by +11.00%.

Lets not forget that according to industry press IG were recently approached by Crypto…[Read more]

Fresnillo (UK:FRES) regains upward initiative

As soon as market sentiment improves somewhat, traders quickly piled back into those market outperformers.

Silver miner Fresnillo (UK:FRES) is one such instrument. Airtel Africa (UK:AAF) is another.

For the past year the Mexico-based precious metal miner had enjoyed a sterling run. Prices…[Read more]

We didn’t have to look far for another example of mispriced US stock in fact we didn’t even need to leave the retail sector. Abercrombie and Fitch ANF US are up + 26.00% as the stock beat earnings consensus by 30.0 cents and pointed to growth at their Hollister subsidiary.

The stock was rated as a moderate buy among 12 analysts – 4 of whom…[Read more]

Here are the analysts recommendations the Hi Low and Consensus price targets and a reminder that this is not the first time lately that Kohls has surprised on the upside .

US mid tier department store Kohls KSS US is set open higher by around +27.0% today after it reported estimate beating numbers.

At least 13 analysts cover the stock on Wall Street so I am forced to wonder how did most of them get it so wrong and how many other stocks out there have been incorrectly labelled ??

Time to sell student rental REIT Unite Group (UTG)?

UK’s higher education sector is a multi-billion industry.

Many students value the prestige of a quality UK degree. Graduating from ‘OxBridge’- short for Oxford and Cambridge – carries a distinct premium in the job market.

In the years before the pandemic, the numbers of students – inter…[Read more]

The UK is often criticised for lack of technology and growth stocks and much of that criticism is justified.

However, there are growth stocks in the UK top flight and one of those is Airtel Africa AAF LN .

The stock is up +167.0%over the year to date, and by +206.0% over the last 52 weeks .

It’s posted 74 new highs in 2025 and has a…[Read more]

Memory stocks have rebounded today with Sandisk SNDK up by + 12.0% , Western Digital WDC up +8.0% and Micron MU by +7.0%. this comment from Morgan Stanley is likely behind some of those gains .

From a Covid Winner to the most shorted stock in S&P

One recent news caught my attention. Moderna (MRNA), the covid vaccine maker, is currently the most shorted stock in the S&P. 

Its stock price, naturally, is under immense pressure; and hit new 52-week lows last week. 

Why are the bears targeting the biotech company? In the last quarter, M…[Read more]

Good Morning all,

The mood in the market this morning seems to be one of cautious optimism. I will be watching the Nasdaq 100 index for clues and in particular how it performs around old support and resistance circa 24446/50 and 25536/40 above that .

In Europe the Dax has opened up by +1.0% and the Stoxx 600 by +0.57%.

Looking at how Bitcoin is performing today it looks like it’s risk-off into the weekend .

And on that note I wish you a good one .