Stock Markets News

Bovis had offered £950m in shares for Galliford’s Linden Homes and Partnerships & Regeneration arms.

(Reuters) – Gains in mining company shares due to a rise in China’s iron ore prices pushed London’s main stock market index higher on Tuesday, …

(Reuters) – Gains in mining company shares due to a rise in China’s iron ore prices pushed London’s main stock market index higher on Tuesday, …

Good morning!
Welcome back after the long weekend. The political noise in the background is very loud, but we will crack on with a look at companies:
AFH Financial (OFEX:AFHP)Ramsdens Holdings (LON:RFX)Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LON:SONG)Goals Soccer Cen…

Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 is in the green after the bell, up 0.25 per cent at 7,296.50. In company news, Travelodge is planning to open 17 new hotels …

The FTSE 100 looks set to open higher this morning, with investors digesting the outcome of the European Parliament elections. The London market …

Good morning! This is the placeholder for the SCVR, our daily analysis of small cap share news.Graham

British American Tobacco saw constant currency revenue increase by 5.4% in 2015 and earnings per share rose by 10%. A key driver was the increased contribution from the group’s 42% stake in Reynolds American. On a reported basis earnings per share was …

Big tech companies are feeling the heat as the General Data Protection Regulation gathers momentum.

Claims for January to March were the highest for any quarter since 2012, the insurance industry body says.

With fraud victims losing huge sums, a new code will offer more protection – but not all banks are signed up.

Seven years after the financial crisis, the Bank of England has cut interest rates to a record low of 0.25% and launched a new £70bn round of quantitative easing.
These new purchases will be added to the £375bn worth of assets the Bank of England purch…

Here are the key differences between Bitcoin and Ripple, two popular decentralized cryptocurrency systems.

SummaryThe G-Score is a fundamental analysis screen which ranks highly valued stocks – or “low book to market” stocks – according to 8 growth criteria. Just as  the Piotroski F-Score aims to separating winners amongst the value universe (the “dusty gem…

The FTSE 100 dividend yield average is a thumping 4.5%, giving savers sweet relief from terminally low savings rates. Some of the biggest dividend …

The FTSE 100 is closed for the UK bank holiday, but bourse across Europe inched higher while the euro held steady against major currencies. In early …

After a year of treading sideways, and mostly lagging the market, since June 2016 shares ranked 90+ by StockRank on the LSE have rocketed in price.  Brexit was the trigger for a general surge in share prices on both sides of the Atlantic… but the top…

Right now, the FTSE 100 is full of attractive looking income stocks that I would happily include in my portfolio today. However, there are also quite a …

Right now, the FTSE 100 is full of attractive looking income stocks that I would happily include in my portfolio today. However, there are also quite a …

LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) – The following FTSE 100 companies will go ex-dividend on Thursday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the …

It wasn’t a surprise to see Marks & Spencer (LSE: MKS), a company whose share price was recently back in recovery, last week erase all of the gains it …

With Brexit bumbling along and the US/China trade war still making the headlines, markets remain volatile. So long as you have the mentality of …

Fiat said the proposed tie-up would create a “world leader” in the rapidly changing auto sector.

Metals and mining stocks gained 1.55% in London on the FTSE100, where Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) closed up 2.87%. The gold price has recovered …

A boss isn’t the captain of the ship, he’s the designer, says James Quarles, boss of Strava.

The hopes for a resurgent Brazilian economy have receded since the election of Jair Bolsonaro

How Lizzy Rudd runs family business Berry Bros and Rudd, the UK’s oldest wine merchant.

The numbers of over 70s still working has more than doubled in the past decade.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) tracks 500 companies from the S&P 500 Index; the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA) tracks the 30 largest U.S. companies.

I have written before about the potential merits of investing in a portfolio of high yield shares, both for those in the wealth building phase and those seeking an income from which to live. But in my view the success of the strategy will lie more in…