Inflation probably falls in the second camp of known unknowns. A higher number would have fed the stagflation narrative more. But I don’t see how the lower-than-expected number is a signal of strength ...

But as with several portfolio stalwarts, the income case has just about delivered. On its own, an unbroken stream of generous quarterly dividends has provided a 128 per cent return over 12 years, ...

However, a Trump risk premium appeared in US stocks. They badly underperformed overseas equities in a shift in the prevalent trend of the last decade. The main fear overhanging an already expensive US ...

Shareholders in Creightons (CRL:26p), a Peterborough-based manufacturer of beauty products, have voted overwhelmingly in ...

On the data front today look out for US CPI inflation – expected 0.3 per cent month-over-month for both the headline and core ...

Legal & General (LGEN) has announced a £500mn buyback, as part of a plan to return £5bn to shareholders within three years.

Hochschild Mining (HOC) has committed to handing shareholders at least $10mn (£7.7mn) a year in dividends as record gold prices drive up its earnings. The company pulled the payout two years ago as ...

A £50mn free cash outflow could be the cause for concern, with Kier making more investment in property after an industrial joint venture with Investec exchanged contracts on a new site in Hemel ...

Women often take time off work to care for children and elderly relatives, affecting their ability to save and invest ...

As Lenin famously said, there are decades when nothing happens and then weeks where decades happen – and this feels rather well suited to the European Union right now. Until 2024, the bloc had settled ...

The result of this reshuffle is that investors are looking away from the US and towards Europe. As the graph shows, in the past three months, the S&P 500 has underperformed both the FTSE 100 and the ...

It wasn’t just a tech rout though, the Dow Jones dropped 2 per cent and overall the S&P 500 fell 2.7 per cent. This is a ...