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 there is likely a higher risk premium baked in for oil, where higher prices are inflationary and therefore feed into risk assets via, chiefly, what central banks do. Crude prices spiked as much as ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Higher crude prices seem to be the main driver of the FTSE holding the line, as index heavyweights BP and Shell both rose ...

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 ...

The company trades on a 34 per cent discount to NAV (ex-cash) even though the portfolio continues to overdeliver ...

Investing is male-dominated but the data shows that women are better at it. We look at what’s holding women back and how they can get started ...