Stocks are on the cusp of all-time highs and at the upper end of their five-year range

US bond market recently gave off a classic signal of a coming recession. Should investors be spooked?

Data suggests investors shouldn’t be wary simply because stocks have been strong

Research shows investors should also be wary of firms headed by egotistical chiefs

Stephen Moore described as lacking ‘intellectual gravitas’ for the role

Practice has yielded handsome returns in the past but failed to bear fruit in recent years

Fed’s rate hike U-turn surprises investors; Woodford claims ‘spectacular’ returns on way

Fund managers become risk-seekers following losing streaks, study finds

Short bets against sterling now at highest level since December

It’s hard to disagree with old cliché that time in the market is more important than timing the market

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

Studies show analysts can be influenced by number of factors including political views and gender

Berkshire Hathaway CEO has struggled to beat the markets for some time now

When stocks bottomed out in 2009 there was fear of meltdown of the financial system

Stocktake: Tesla chief’s ongoing carelessness a cause of concern for investors

Study looking back to 1800 confirms following the trend, seasonality and value investing beat the market

There has been an about-turn in sentiment towards emerging markets

Company boards attribute too much importance to the role of chief executive

Reports of Apple’s demise are overstated while worrying about timing is as futile as ever

Random sales strategy is better than a bad sales strategy, research shows

Trump cheers Dow 25,000 – again, and the ‘Venezuelan’ wealth tax

A fact-based world view is more useful to investors than the siren song of news

Stocktake: Investors shouldn’t confuse a slowdown with a recession, ‘that’s just wrong’

Stocks have room to keep rising if outlook begins to look less uncertain

Stocktake: Brexit market complacency; cutting earnings estimates; S&P 500 rallies

Research shows in short-term market panics few stocks are spared

Stocktake: Market volatility taking its toll on Trump; fear and greed grips Mr Market

Research shows people see value in humility after recognising limited understanding

Forecasts from strategists show bullish expectations have been reined in

Investors should not assume the worst is over if indices enjoy a strong rebound

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

Cryptocurrency price collapse a painful lesson for new generation of investors

Wild price swings show role animal spirits currently play in financial markets

A behavioural finance expert says investors are not as dispassionate as you’d think

Microsoft’s obituaries were premature as it reclaimed its status as the world’s most valuable company for the first time since 200(...)

Family companies have handsomely outperformed the broader equity markets in all regions of the world

Beware blame on external factors, bad news buried on Fridays and deceptive graph use

Stocktake: Tech giants in bear market as $1tn wiped off value since peak

It may be that this is a late-cycle bull market that isn’t quite finished yet

Bitcoin likely to see further falls; oil is on the verge of hitting a 52-week low

S&P 500 enjoyed its biggest one-day post-midterm bounce since 1982

‘Keep calm and carry on’ remains sound advice for long-term investors

Whatever about the short term, emerging markets can be a very good option

The 6.9% fall of the S&P 500 was its biggest monthly decline in seven years, while things were worse in tech-land with the Nasdaq (...)

Tesla chief Elon Musk is latest in long line of figures suspicious of short selling

The US has been playing catch-up with what has become a truly global sell-off

In a US bull market and with 10-year bonds soaring, should equity investors be worried?

Global economy is in late cycle, record 85 per cent of fund managers surveyed say

Merrill Lynch says elections could have implications for fiscal policy and foreign ties

This is the week when the S&P 500 suffered its biggest one-day fall in eight months

Facebook, Apple and Uber have done the mea culpa – but an apology can go awry

Growing number of firms finding principle doesn’t have to be at expense of business

Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch survey showing pessimism may be good news for contrarians

Focusing on quarterly earnings estimates, critics say, promotes corporate short-termism

Why ‘dumb neighbours getting richer than you’ provides an invaluable lesson for us all

Notion that past gains were inevitable and future is murky is bedevilled by hindsight bias

Last week’s ISM Manufacturing Index reading will certainly encourage bulls.

Interestingly, long-term investors in Ireland have not fared badly over the last decade

The recent breakout to all-time highs suggests the bull market is alive and well

Many experts were given Nostradamus status in the aftermath of the financial crisis

This time it’s different as many investors hold more cash or bonds

US bull market isn’t quite as extraordinarily long as it might appear

Merrill Lynch monthly fund manager survey suggests indices haven’t yet bottomed

The technology giant’s market dominance has followed long periods of disappointment

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