The Bank of England (BoE) is set to keep rates on hold next Thursday, but this week’s downbeat employment data gives further ...

Shares in oil giants BP (BP.) and Shell (SHEL) surged this morning as Brent crude oil jumped 7 per cent to $74 a barrel. The spike followed news of an overnight Israeli strike on Iran, fuelling fears ...

But Nike’s pre-eminence in the marketplace is now under threat. The group’s share price started to head south in November 2021, and around two-thirds of its market value has been wiped out in the ...

Dan Jones and the team unpack a rail business’s results, a materials company and Blue Whale Growth’s tobacco holding ...

Its precious metal holdings are on a tear and there should be material gains from its two largest unlisted investments, too ...

In Merck’s case, worries over rising competition from so-called ‘biosimilar’ generic products, which approximate the biological chemical structure of branded medicines, is behind much of the ...

The depressed share price means that the trust currently offers a yield of about 14 per cent. In many cases, investors in the renewable energy infrastructure sector are being paid to wait for either a ...

The macroeconomic environment looks to have turned against top dividend payers BP and Shell, raising questions about their ...

The tone of this week’s spending review was set days before the event itself when one of Labour’s bolder attempts to demonstrate its commitment to fiscal responsibility – axing the winter fuel payment ...

These are the Core UK Gilts ETF (IGLT), the Physical Gold ETC (SGLN) and three international equity index trackers: the S&P 500 ETF (CSP1), the MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EMIM) and the MSCI ...

The index is now up 8.6 per cent year-to-date, which is a sign that a) it’s offering some relative shelter with defensive names, b) it’s benefiting from flow dynamics and c) is seen as potential ...

Markets dislike this, as it reduces the potential attractiveness of foreign investment in the US. China has already voted with its feet, leaving the UK as the second-largest investor in US Treasuries ...