1900s ->The advent of Bucket Shops Back in Wykoff and Livermore days you did not need a stock brokerage account to trade stocks. In fact, you never had to buy or own a single share of stock – ever! Some of the major Wall...

The UK’s small-cap market, particularly AIM-listed stocks, has endured a difficult 2024, weighed down by mounting economic pressures and negative investor sentiment. Chief among the challenges has been a wave of tax increases...

The COVID-19 stock market crash of 2020 remains one of the most dramatic financial collapses in recent history. Triggered by the sudden emergence of a global pandemic, markets around the world experienced sharp declines...

Last month, we kicked off the first of two articles looking back over the major stock market shakeouts of the last 100 years. We started by analysing two sets of panic (the Panic of 1901 and the Panic of 1907) both of which...

In a special two part piece we look back at the major stock market crashes of the past 100 years. Since the creation of the Wall Street Stock Exchange, at the beginning of the 20th century, there have been countless stock market...

Oil, crude, brent, light sweet, black gold – whatever you want to call it, one thing’s for certain, it is perhaps the most important of all commodities, one we cannot currently live without, being the source of power for our...