China’s consumer prices rose by a more-than-expected 0.5% in July from a year ago, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday.

Choppy: Stocks are firmer in early trade following yesterday’s losses. For all the movement we have seen, the FTSE 100 is tracking slap in the middle of its 6-month range. But now it’s facing near-term resistance from its 50-day and 100-day averages at 7,092/7,078, which seem to be capping any rallies at the moment, whilst […]

All power to Powell, but is this the Waterloo for the bull market? His dovish remarks lit the green buy light across the board. Stocks, oil, gold, bonds and currencies ex the dollar are pretty well all bid up with the Fed apparently happy to keep its hand on the pump. What happens when it stops cutting […]

European stocks rose in early trade on Friday after a solid session in Asia which followed an up day for Wall Street. Stocks in London and Paris rallied as much as 1%, whilst Frankfurt was about half of one percent higher for the session. The S&P 500 rallied 1% and is headed for a weekly […]

Stocks climbed higher on Wednesday while the ‘store of value’ assets, Bitcoin (BTC) and gold trended lower as the minutes from the Fed minutes showed that central bank representatives were mixed on the size of the recent interest rate cut.