Scepticism over what would be the largest leveraged buyout ever is understandable

The luckiest investors end up with five times as much money as the unluckiest ones

Ethical investors can outperform if they engage with corporate sinners

The European stock market is much cheaper than the US and it’s likely to stay that way for some time

Quick rebound unlikely as growth slowdown guidance prompts biggest one-day loss ever

Weather and mood influence investors’ decision-making, new research indicates

Yields are levelling off after long bull run but market peak may be some way off yet

Will Amazon pip Apple to the post to become US’s first trillion-dollar company?

Computers increasingly dominate today’s investment world, but they can only go so far

Stocktake: Fourteen bear market signals suggest bull’s race is almost run

US administration will be keeping close eye on markets in the coming months

While most active funds underperform, investors persist in belief hard work pays

Some say sector is in a bubble, but current race looks more sustainable than dotcom days

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

Stocktake: Elon Musk taunts short sellers and GE exits Dow Jones index

Many see the case for quarterly guidance from companies as increasingly tenuous

The tech advance has been led by companies with some eye-watering valuation multiples

Positioning on Europe ‘not yet fully defensive’, says Merrill Lynch

Trading decisions made in fury permit investors to harness ‘the outrage cycle’

More ‘all-or-nothing days’, Trump ‘greatness’, and gains consolidated

Focusing on successes while ignoring past failures is a major flaw in data analysis

In the past 10 downturns, the S&P 500 was actually higher seven times

Bears see this as temporary but bulls think profit margins have risen to a permanently higher plateau

Dove-like Fed, Musk meltdown and bulls have the edge

Stocktake: with value stocks in a slump, the tortoise and hare approach may lose its appeal

Soros and those Tesla bonds; cryptocurrency scammers still profiting from the gullible

Markets took fright after the entrepreneur lashed out at analysts

Stocktake: Market volatility falls but lengthy correction in stock prices continues

Stocktake: Don’t sell in May and go away

High prices are sustained as speculators believe they can sell on to ‘greater fool’

Stocktake: Investors fret over rising bond yields

A record number of companies have issued upward earnings guidance, according to FactSet data

Six factors to keep in mind as volatile stock markets nurse double-digit ‘correction’

Merrill Lynch says that bulls are currently being ‘silenced, not routed’

Stocktake: Bitcoin ‘virus’ peaks; Barclays’ equity study; Buffet the billionaire boy

Stop-loss orders switch you out of market when price falls below designated point

Stocktake: Paulsen urges caution; volatility returns; stocks breach 200-day average

There is a danger investors will let their emotions get the better of them in turbulent times

CFD clampdown, US yield curve concerns and accepting end of S&P winning streak

Estimates suggest chiefs in US are paid about 300 times more than the average worker

Stocktake: Facebook stock down $60bn over Cambridge Analytica’s revelations

Is it really that difficult to go against the herd? In a nutshell, yes

Proinsias O’Mahony: Muted sentiment has lengthened the bull market

Sheer size of Berkshire Hathaway will inevitably constrain its performance

In a normal market, last week’s declines would hardly be noticed, but this has not been a normal market

Performance does not persist, as shown by the latest scorecard from S&P Dow Jones Indices

Stocktake: Fed chair strikes ‘hawkish tone’. Plus: S&P’s fall and rise; tech stocks power back

Why is herding such a problem in financial markets?

Stocktake: Why you should delete your investing app from your smartphone

Investors should have taken advantage of the recent weakness in the market

Stocktake: despite strong market rebound, stocks likely to retest recent lows

Proinsias O’Mahony: Seven nerve-calming steps to help you make sense of it all

Stocks may suffer further near-term falls but a bear market remains unlikely

‘If you claim the rise, you own the fall’

In a normal market, last week’s declines would hardly be noticed, but this has not been a normal market

Stocktake: Investors are still jumping in as FOMO trumps worry of losing money

Stocktake: US stocks set for bumper earnings season as S&P 500 surge continues

Cryptocurrency craze overwhelmingly male just like countless past bubbles

The cryptocurrency is volatile and its future value trajectory is anyone’s guess

Ordinarily, market over-reactions are short-lived, but not with cryptocurrency-related stocks

The Cape ratio is twice as high as its average, but no one is panicking yet

. . . Or will the not too hot, not too cold Goldilocks market persist?

Stocktake: Gains of over 50% predicted, with no sign of bull market party ending soon

Seasonal boost to stocks found even where Christmas is not a leading holiday

Stocktake: The rise of the cryptocurrency has sparked a wave of FOMO – fear of missing out

Warren Buffett, Howard Marks and Nobel economist Robert Shiller have warned the craze will end badly

Stocktake: Tech stock fall is factor-led. Plus: Trump’s tax cuts; Weinstein’s ‘comeback’

After a decade of unprecedented financial experimentation caution is warranted

Stocktake: Indications of speculative bubble in cryptocurrency’s wild ride

Investors wary of FAANG’s hefty valuations may turn to Asian tech stocks

Stocktake: Is Japan a freak case, the exception to the ‘buy and hold’ rule?

The US president’s knowledge of how the markets actually work could be improved

Why European equities falling seven days in a row is not a cause for panic

Beware companies that consistently hit their quarterly earnings targets – they may be cleverly manipulating the figures and headin(...)

Stocktake: word is out on China Literature; stocks defy gravity; Woodford sticks with Brexit

Stocktake: Absence of stock market volatility at a time of global uncertainty a mystery

Momentum may be about to accelerate as stocks enter seasonally strongest part of year

Bitcoin surpassed $6,000 last week so it’s a good time to ask, is it overpriced?

The US market looks pricey relative to Europe, but it always does. What might cause the valuation gap to narrow?

Barrons warn markets ‘could be at risk of another computer-driven meltdown’

We can all learn from the man who so closely observes the quirks that govern our financial decision-making

30 years on from the infamous stock market fall, its memory still fascinates

US president claims stock market gains cut national debt – but they have no bearing on it

Superstitious beliefs have been found to have a real impact on global stock markets

Stocktake: Proinsias O’Mahony

Stocktake: sky gambling is a ‘blessing’, gains ahead, September boredom and Apple profit

‘Don’t just do something, stand there’ might be best, like Buffett’s ‘benign neglect, bordering on sloth’

Investors yawn at Trump’s ‘barking’ as US bull market shows no sign of stopping

Not necessarily. Reviled companies do not always make for bad stocks

Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds

Beware ‘sexy’, expensive, glamorous tech stocks – they rarely deliver the goods

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

The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s

New research shows waiting for a correction is often profitable but can prove costly

Stocktake: Donald Trump, investors think you’re useless at best, dangerous at worst

Stocktake: market breadth is a crucial indicator of underlying market health

Many investors see FAANG stocks as bulletproof, but sceptics are wary of the high values

Howard Marks predicted the dotcom and housing crashes, and now he’s worried trouble is brewing again

Response to rise in tensions between US and North Korea decidedly muted

It’s misguided to worry a correction is looming just because stocks are registering new highs