Santa Claus is coming to trade. It may only be early November, but already some traders are preparing for the annual ‘Santa Rally’ –a 4-6-week period in which stock markets have a statistical tendency to trend higher into year end. Over the past 21 years, global indices – including the UK’s blue-chip UK 100 index…

Perhaps the most over-used phrase that can be heard on trading floors in the past 12 months is “it’s got to pull back from here, surely”. Meanwhile the tally of record closing and intraday highs grows. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has pushed through 23,000, the S&P 500 above 2550, the Tech-focused Nasdaq composite has…

If foreign exchange markets continue the past nine months’ trends into the end of the year, 2017 will be remembered as a terrible one for the US dollar and a fantastic one for the Euro. However, with early signs that current trends could be reversing, will the fourth quarter of 2017 turn FX markets on…

As we draw into the final months of yet another exciting year for UK banks, it’s time to take stock of another quarter of earnings. While the sheer exhilaration of 2016’s summer was always going to be hard to match, 2017 has still thrown up its fair share of drivers for the lifeblood of the…

After yet another year of political intrigue, economic surprise and corporate confoundment, 2017 is hurtling to a climactic conclusion. With three months of the year left, a host of market-moving events in the fourth quarter will shape the landscape heading into the new year and beyond. Are you sufficiently prepared for the home straight?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have likely heard about 2017’s most divisive topic. Cryptocurrencies. Talks of returns in the double or even triple digits have set traders’ tongues wagging, resulting in a significant increase of products available. Even Paris Hilton has jumped in on the act, recently endorsing a US coin offering….