President Trump

On Saturday 29th April Donald Trump will mark his first 100 days in office. Rather than rehash his political successes and failures, we have decided to let stock market performance do the talking. We have looked at the best and worst performers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since Trump’s inauguration on 20th January, as you can see in figure 1.

The big news from overnight was the record high in the Nasdaq, which broke 6,000 for the first time. Tech stocks have had a stunning month with Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (Alphabet), known as the “fangs” all reaching record highs, ahead of their earnings figures due out this week. But, will president Trump’s tax plan boost them further?

European stock markets have opened marginally higher on Tuesday after Macron-mania swept over global markets at the start of the week. We expect there to be further upside, particularly if Macron can maintain his decent lead over le Pen in the run up to the second round vote on 7th May.

The March US labour market report was full of surprises – Non Farm Payrolls came in at 98k, nearly 50% less than the market expected, […]

Stock markets are lower in Europe as the market digests the FOMC minutes, which, as we predicted, were worth staying late in the office for. […]

As the dollar roars back to life, the pound has come under pressure and is down nearly 2% versus the US dollar in the aftermath […]

There are so many reasons why the stock market, the US market in particular, looks overbought right now. The RSI – the relative strength index […]

This is my second note of the day, a testament to how I early I woke to listen to a politically interesting, but economically dull, […]

Donald Trump has delivered his first address to Congress, but the market reaction has been fairly small so far. Although Trump received rapturous applause from […]

The key event for this week will be Trump’s address to Congress later this evening, 2100 ET, 0200 GMT (Wednesday). This much-anticipated speech is worth […]

The US roared back into life after the long Presidents’ Day weekend, and US equity indices hit further record highs on Tuesday. This is becoming […]

US equity indices posted fresh record highs on Wednesday, and the FTSE 100 is less than 50 points away from its record 7,354 level reached […]

US stock markets reached another record high on Valentine’s Day, but where will they go next? As analysts and economists fret about potential sell-signals, the […]

President Trump has a lot on his plate at the moment, from finding a new security advisor to batting off claims he knew about General […]

It was a strong start to the week for risky assets, as European stocks played catch up, the FTSE 250 in the UK reached a […]

Markets have continued Friday’s upbeat theme, futures are pointing to a strong open in the US, and the dollar is stronger across the board in […]

The first US labour market report since Donald Trump took office may have delivered the goods on the headline figure, Non-Farm payrolls rose by a […]

It may seem that all is good with the world now that Apple is selling iPhones like hot cakes once again, however, in the background […]

The first FOMC meeting of the year will conclude today, when the Fed announces its latest policy decision and releases a statement. There will be […]

Financial markets have been given a rude awakening at the start of a new week as investors wake up to the fact that the ‘Trump […]