Week Ahead: FTSE hits all time highs | US quality shares in the spotlight

Good morning and welcome to a pretty buoyant Week Ahead, as the FTSE appears to be continuing on the same trajectory that saw it hit all time highs last week. After a torrid few months, recent weeks have seen the domestic markets starting to gain ground on their overseas rivals as investors have turned their interest towards commodity stocks and away from the high-flying tech sector. Expectations that the Bank of England might cut the base rate at their next interest rate decision (due on 9 May) is also helping sentiment, while the global companies on the FTSE 100 (which make a lot of their money in USD) are being buoyed by the relative strength of the dollar. It’s still pretty quiet on the results front among the British companies (which are only obligated to report their results twice a year), but quarterly results season is in full swing in the US. Which is why we’re focusing our analysis there this week. UK companies reporting International companies reporting Monday 29 April US company financial results including Domino’s Pizza Tuesday 30 April Final results including Avacta, Card Factory, RBG Holdings US company financial results including Coca-Cola, Amazon, McDonalds, PayPal, Starbucks and MondelezEuropean company financial results including Mercedes Benz,…