Investors phlegmatic in the face of US government shutdown
A flurry of merger activity among European stocks drove strong moves on Monday as some regional indexes notched up new records, with investors shrugging off the US government shutdown as a global stocks “melt-up” continued to grip European markets In New York, the S&P and the Nasdaq hit fresh records as investors bet US lawmakers […]
Shares tread water on thin holiday trading volumes
European shares inched lower on Thursday with company news and macro events scarce in holiday-thinned trading, while Britain’s FTSE 100 hovered just under a record high. Wall Street’s main indexes were slightly higher in late morning trading , helped by gains in technology stocks. Dublin Volumes were wafer-thin on the Iseq, as traders and investors […]