Microsoft’s valuation is now almost as big as that of the FTSE 100, as is Apple’s

There’s nothing normal about recent market activity

Goldman Sachs says the current apocalyptic mood won’t persist but not everyone agrees

Personal classification of risk and danger are key determinants of market behaviours

Global stocks endure worst week since financial crisis as coronavirus hits markets

After a soaring decade for US stock market, returns could fall sharply in the new decade

Time for a pullback? In the bullish 1990s stocks enjoyed five further years of gains

Impact of tariffs has fallen largely on the US

Stocktake: Mega-cap stocks are driving global market gains

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

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

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 plunging 9.25%

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

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

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

Stocktake: Don’t sell in May and go away

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

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

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

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

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

Things are usually hairier outside the US, but not this year. In Europe, the biggest pullback has totalled just 4%

Stocktake: Merrill Lynch research shows it’s time for investors to hold tough

StockTake: ‘Bull market checklist’ suggests any decline unlikely to be decisive

No one really knows for sure where sterling ought to be or where it’s going to go

Also Marc ‘Dr Doom’ Faber predicts doom again this year; the Zika virus and investors

Impact on share prices of uncertainty over UK’s EU future difficult to calculate

Short selling on the rise, volatility and low returns and running out of ‘ammunition’

Everyone – even a clairvoyant God who continually picks the top-performing stocks – suffers during bear markets

Declining stocks are part and parcel of market reality. What lessons can we learn?

There’s little reason to have faith in market strategists’ 2016 predictions

Mergers and acquisitions, which totalled $4.6tn in 2015, can be indicative of froth

Concern is growing that a handful of stocks are keeping the S&P 500 afloat

Correlations always spike in times of perceived crisis

Fear sells newspapers but investors should not pay attention to the apocalyptic headlines

Market panics are unnerving, but they’re also times of great opportunity

Proinsias O’Mahony takes a look at the ups and downs of the stock market

How low can gold go?

A look at the ups and downs of international stock markets