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Mr Hunt said if there is no prospect of a deal by 31 October he would accept a no-deal Brexit.

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With inflation back on the rise, it can be tempting for us investors to put the dividend yield above everything else with increasing appetite.

Advertising giant WPP (LSE: WPP) was one FTSE 100 stock that made it, and this isn’t surprising in my view, as the shares have fallen significantly …

According to my research, at the time of writing there are 23 companies in the FTSE 100 that support dividend yields of 6% or more. Of these …

Employers have become more relaxed about visible tattoos at work, but some firms still don’t allow them.

A Berkshire family has turned the oceans’ waste plastic into a range of children’s swimwear.

International buyers offered high prices for eels caught on the River Severn in Gloucestershire.

Photographer Sayan Hazra captures a day in the life of one of India’s few female DJs.

The new duties come days before countries’ leaders are expected to meet at a G20 summit in Japan.

Anderson’s modus operandi is to search for investment opportunities outside the FTSE 100. It means a portfolio that predominantly comprises mid and …

Discover how Splitwise serves consumers by providing a free app that allows people to split expenses and pay them by cash, check, PayPal or Venmo.

Facebook is riding the cryptocurrency wave as the S&P 500 continues its consolidation and the British pound slides on renewed Brexit fears.

Deciding where to invest for retirement can be a tough choice. On the one hand, products such as a Cash ISA and Premium Bonds have appeal since …

This means there may be wider margins of safety on offer than in the FTSE 100, where the majority of revenue is generated outside of the UK.

To make sure both companies still have some room to grow, I’ve chosen them from the mid-cap FTSE 250 index, rather than the big-cap FTSE 100.

At the time of writing, the FTSE 100 has a dividend yield of around 4.5%. That’s relatively high for the index when compared not only to its historic …

As the arms race among the software and cloud-computing giants accelerates, Citigroup outlines the next seven most likely M&A targets.

Facebook’s Libra coin will serve users on the social media platform as well as across the internet.

Blockchain has been hailed as a game-changing technology which will transform virtually every industry. So why hasn’t it seen mass adoption yet?

More than one-in-10 people in the UK now own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties.

The Alternative Investment Market has surged by 20% since the EU referendum. That’s the sort of 3-month performance we haven’t seen since mid-2013, when the ISA exemption was lifted on AIM shares. In this kind of environment it may well get harder to t…

In Brief
A mechanical trend-following trading system  based on Price Momentum signals, specifically the 20 and 55 Day Highs. In 1983, commodities trader Richard Dennis bet with his business partner Bill Eckhart that he could teach a random group to be …

We reviewed in an earlier article Daniel Kahnemann’s Prospect Theory, his latest book “Thinking Fast and Slow” and some of the key findings of Behavioural Finance and we’ll be discussing a number of the implications for investors in a subsequent piece….

At the Paris Airshow, Boeing faces some difficult choices following the fatal 737 Max crashes.

Hong Kong is one of the world’s top financial hubs, but is this status now at risk?

When Philip Fisher wrote Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits in 1958, he documented a now famous approach to growth investing. His focus on robust management and strong company growth prospects has proved to be a lucrative blend. It has also proved an i…

With the recent news of his investment in Tesco (LON:TSCO), we thought we’d take a look this week at a Warren Buffett stock screen using the Stockopedia Premium data-set. Buffett’s approach is a highly fundamentals-focused one which blends both Graham…

Elsewhere the FTSE 100 slipped back 22.79 points to close at 7,345.78, after a day of subdued trading, while the FTSE 250 ended 54.03 points lower …

Wall Street expects the motor home and recreational vehicle manufacturer to report improved earnings, but revenue may have slumped.