The cooling the market has experienced in the last 9 months combined with a slowing economy means it's plausible that house prices could drop by a third over the next three years.
Updata's David Linton explains market breadth analysis - a superior way of understanding trends and turning points for going over or underweight in stocks.
Five of the FTSE's top 10 stocks are miners and any sign of a downtrend in the sector could spell disaster. Updata's David Linton shows why investors should be glued to the outcome of mining's current phase of volatility.
David Linton looks at Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Xstrata and reveals concerns about their technical indicators. He adds that despite the recent bounce, we're still in bearish territory and the relief rally will hit resistance.
One year into the credit crunch David Linton assesses the UK market with particular emphasis on the key banking and mining sectors and concludes that we're in 'classic bear territory'.
David Linton shows how moving average charts can be useful when asking if a stock is trending up or down. Here he looks at several methods using FTSE and the stocks of Rolls-Royce and BA as examples.
Just 7 out of the 35 UK sectors look bullish. David Linton at Updata analyses the best of a bad bunch and shows where investors might want to put their money.
Is the share price on its way up or down? David Linton, Updata, on one of the most popular but misunderstood graph analysis tools - head and shoulder patterns.
David Linton demonstrates how the relative strength technique can be used to identify stocks and sectors that are out or underperforming, regardless of the influence of wider market.
What sort of economy are Presidents McCain or Obama going to inherit? Robin Bew at the Economist Intelligence Unit casts an eye over a US economy that is slipping further and further into recession.
Calling the bottom of the current market is a mug's game but expect further surprises to the downside, says David Linton as he casts an eye over the markets, banking and housebuilding stocks.
With so much market turmoil and geopolitical uncertainy there should be a rush to gold. However, David Linton shows why he's cautious. He also looks at the state of oil plus sterling against the dollar and euro.
Chris Watling at Longview Economics explains why the current bear market is likely to be amongst the worst for 90 years, and analyses the parallels and differences between today's situation and the bear market's of the 1930s and 1970s.
Attempts by the Bank of England to rein in inflation by raising rates would foil a recovery in the property market, says Ray Boulger at John Charcol. He looks at how lenders are handling the strapped funding conditions and offers advice to borrowers.
The UK is heading for a recession this year and only 0.5% growth in 2009. Robin Bew at the Economist Intelligence Unit also predicts a marked slowdown in the eurozone.
Greg Smith at Fat Prophets says the FTSE will fall yet further during the second half and explains why this week's losses at M&S and Taylor Wimpey were justified.
The relief rally in the US dollar has failed to impress Greg Smith at Fat Prophets, who says the underlying fundamentals supporting the Greenback are still pretty dire. In contrast, the recent decline in oil prices should be seen as a correction in a longer term bull market.
The UK's stamp duty is no longer 'fit for purpose'. David Stubbs at the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) looks at why the time is now right for urgent reform of the tax.
'Surprised' and 'puzzling' is how Fionnuala Earley describes the government's stance on stamp duty. She explains why plus where interest rates are headed and if repossessions will increase.
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