Thierry Laduguie

The FTSE is falling again this morning after China allowed the yuan to fall for the second consecutive day. In a desperate move to boost its economy China acted a second time, an indication that the devaluation process is underway and we could see further falls versus the Dollar in the near term. Desperate is […]

The S&P 500 rose by 0.31% on Wednesday following three days of consecutive losses. Technology shares helped boost the benchmark in what was a mixed day for US indices. The Nasdaq climbed by 0.67% but the Dow Jones Industrial Average found itself weighed down by industrial shares and blue chip stocks and ended up closing […]

The S&P 500 Index rose on Wednesday, continuing the rally from the previous day’s session as Federal Reserve comments were treated as mildly dovish by stock market traders. The Fed opted to keep interest rates at record lows and more importantly, gave no clear sign that rates would rise this fall. This is now the […]

The pullback in the stock market has yet to materialise. The FTSE 100 is resilient because those who believe in the bull market scenario are buying. The longer a bull market goes on the more people will believe in a continuation of the bull market. But with Gold and oil trading at multi-year lows you […]

The S&P 500 closed in negative territory on Wednesday after a technical glitch on the New York Stock Exchange caused trading to be halted for three and a half hours. Trading eventually resumed in the final hour, by which time all three US indices were firmly in the red. The S&P 500 ended up closing […]

The S&P 500 rallied on Wednesday as traders began the month of July in optimistic mood despite the debt crisis in Europe. Latest news out of Greece, indicates that any deal with eurozone finance ministers will have to wait until at least Sunday when we will learn the outcome of the latest referendum. Greeks will […]

The S&P 500 fell by -0.09% on Wednesday as shares dropped across the board after the release of last month’s Federal Reserve meeting minutes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell, by 0.15%, while the Nasdaq finished up by just a modest amount. As Fed minutes were released, the S&P 500 had actually entered into […]

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high of 2,121,10 on Thursday as shares finished higher across the board, led by gains in healthcare, consumer goods and technology stocks. The index finished higher by 1.08%, just above the previous record close of 2,117.69 set last month. Nine out of ten S&P 500 sectors finished in […]

The S&P 500 fell by -0.45% on Wednesday, taking the index to 2,080 as a broad market sell off ensued on Wall Street. Losses came as Head of the Fed, Janet Yellen, gave a speech at the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Finance & Society Conference, questioning the current valuation of US equities. Yellen made […]

The S&P 500 benchmark US stock index climbed by 0.51% on Wednesday led by financials, technology and telecoms. Other US indices also rose with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 0.49% and the Nasdaq advancing by 0.42%. Overall, there were some interesting moves on Wednesday with some nice gains and some equally nasty losses. FMC […]