Faraday Research

After yesterday’s trading update EasyJet is being touted as a great buy. We don’t see it that way… Let’s take a deeper dive into yesterday’s full year numbers and the company’s short-term outlook. Falling Pre-tax Profit In line with guidance provided back in early October (06/10), management yesterday confirmed that 2016 pre-tax profit would be […]

We usually use this weekly post as an opportunity to examine which trends are emerging on a sector/industry level and highlight ways that active traders can take advantage of them. This week though, we wanted to look at the post-election price action from a different perspective; namely, we’re checking in the performance of different stock […]

As we saw with Brexit, the ‘collective intelligence’ of the market was called in to question following Trump’s resounding US election win. Like the betting markets and pollsters, traders were caught with their pants down and panicked (Dow futures were down over 800 points at one stage). However, Trump’s magnanimous and (don’t adjust your screen […]

As expected, last night’s vote in the States created huge amounts of volatility across global currency markets. The shock win by Republican candidate Donald Trump caused some of the biggest swings in forex since the Brexit vote in June. The Mexican peso and Japanese yen were both under the spotlight, but it was the greenback that got the […]