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Five years ago, the UK housing market saw a shift in preferences. As lockdown forced us to work (and shop, and do everything else) from home, more space started to feel like a necessity. Houses saw ...
Post-demerger, there does (thankfully) seem to be a greater focus on cash. THG expects free cash flow to be “marginally positive” this year, while the recent refinancing and £90mn equity raise also ...
The FTSE 100 chalked up a 12th straight day of gains yesterday, and bulls are arguably looking a little tired as we digest a slew of corporate updates this morning. The blue chips marginally in the ...
Annuity rates are linked to bond yields, which have stayed stubbornly high in 2025, regardless of base rate cuts. As of 24 April, a 65-year-old who used a £100,000 pot to buy a single-life level ...
Others disagree. The managers of FTSE 250 investment trust Murray International (MYI) have kept their tobacco investments. Philip Morris is its largest single equity holding, at 4.5 per cent of trust ...
Richard Court Treatt, merchant of essential oils, founded Treatt in 1886 to supply raw materials for flavours and fragrances. From a modest beginning, the company evolved into a manufacturer and ...
In this sense, the index carried an echo of the screens’ goal – loosely based on a 2023 paper by Tobias Kalsbach and Steffen Windmüller of the Technical University of Munich – which seeks to find ...
Lost in the recent US government Signal message service controversy, which saw it inadvertently share sensitive military ...
BP’s shares fell 4 per cent in early trading. The company will spend $750mn on buybacks in the three months until the Q2 ...
Audio equipment company Focusrite (TUNE) continues to get buffeted by macro events. The company is only just recovering after the Covid-19 pandemic and is now having to deal with the impact of the US ...
HSBC posted a 25 per cent drop in profits, but the headline last year was flattered by $3.7bn from the sale of its banking ...
And yet not all DIY investors are buying the dip. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, noted ...