The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to cut rates by a further 0.25 percentage points, taking the base rate to 4.25 per cent. The move was widely anticipated by analysts and ...

The S&P 500 (0.4 per cent), Nasdaq (0.3), and Dow (0.7) gained as markets anticipated Trump’s major UK trade deal announcement. Disney spiked 10.8 per cent) after upbeat earnings. Futures signal ...

HSBC (HSBA) – another high-risk candidate due to its huge Asian footprint – also exceeded market expectations. On an adjusted ...

To recap, it is a UK company specialising in the design and manufacture of advanced radio frequency (RF) and microwave ...

In essence, it’s better to think of leveraged ETFs not as investment vehicles, but as gambling products. So, if you fancy a flutter go ahead. But as Sleep suggests: “Go to Epsom rather than gamble on ...

A slight derating explains some of the fall. According to FactSet, the S&P started the year on 21.5 times forward earnings. It is now at 20.7, although drops in earnings per share (EPS) estimates ...

AstraZeneca, the FTSE 100’s largest stock, was down 2 per cent and GSK fell 4 per cent after the US Food and Drug ...

In fact, double-digit increases in sales of confectionery (up 25 per cent), soft toys (20 per cent) and stationery (18 per ...

The deal will not dent the company’s debt burden, and options to repair its strained balance sheet are narrowing ...

And UK politicians certainly have reason to be afraid. In 2022, bond markets helped to sink Liz Truss’s government: yields climbed as a badly delivered and uncosted fiscal statement wounded the ...

Rentokil has also replaced two current non-executive directors with Leanne Sheraton, former chief marketing officer at Paypal (US: PYPL) and Sam Mitchell, former CEO at Valvoline (US: VVV), to support ...

The FTSE 100 is playing catch-up today after being closed for May Day, with the blue chips opening strongly but giving away ...