Stocktake: Wild swings in tech stocks spook investors

One way to diversify and lessen risk is buying an equal-weighted S&P index

Stocktake: Are stocks at heightened risk in 2022?

History suggests odds stocks will rise in 202 are no different from any other year

Stocktake: Markets’ valuation gap points to where long -term returns will be

The fact other developed markets trade at such a discount to US is worth noting

Stocktake: Investors hoping for Santa Claus rally

Research suggests Christmas strength is evident across most international markets

Stocktake: Trump shouldn’t take stock market strength for granted

President has linked recent gains to progress on trade talks with China

Stocktake: Are we any closer to a market bottom?

The mindset of traders has changed – instead of buying the dip they are selling the rallies

Stocktake: Trade war fears hit stocks

It would be a ‘big deal for profits even if it isn’t as big of a deal for the economy’

Dollar decline hits European stocks

Stocktake: Idea of Trump as a ‘stock market whisperer’ doesn’t bear scrutiny

Snapchat parent’s IPO valuation not a pretty picture

No major flotation in recent decades has looked remotely as expensive as Snap’s

Stocktake: FTSE rally no cause for patriotic fervour

British investors would have made more money if they had invested almost anywhere else

Stocktake: Should investors sell if Trump wins?

Markets are waking up to the risks, falling eight days in a row following the narrowing of Hillary Clinton’s lead

Stocktake: inside financial markets

Google’s name change; US bull market looks tired; fussy investors; and favouring a trading posture that is neither bullish nor bearish

Stocktake: Hoping for a healthy market decline

Proinsias O’Mahony looks at what’s been happening and what might happen

Euro sentiment hits bearish extreme