According to the latest YouGov poll, voters think that the economy is the most important issue facing the country. Over half of all adults put economic performance in their top three concerns, meaning ...

No economy is perfectly frictionless and in the grand scheme, the US is still a free economy and its political system is built for error correction. It is ranked 26th in the world in the Economic ...

A new fund reckons the market has turned a corner, but anything can happen when China and the DR Congo are involved ...

Victrex’s share price was swept up in the turmoil following Trump’s “liberation day”. That said, with cash flows resuming after heavy outgoings, the balance sheet looks increasingly solid. At a ...

Wickes (WIX), Renew Holdings (RNWH), Marks & Spencer (MKS), On the Beach (OTB) and Midwich Group (MIDW) A 7 per cent increase in revenue at Wickes (WIX) at the start of the year was driven by market ...

The FTSE 100 and Dax are marginally in the red having started brighter, falling back as the day progressed. In Paris, shares are up 0.15 per cent. The FTSE is struggling despite top stock AstraZeneca ...

New brooms sweep clean, they say. And new chief executives want to make their mark. They also want to start with a clean slate, so their first results announcement can often involve kitchen-sinking – ...

Alex Newman and Lord Lee reunite to unpack the market since April’s sell-off and all the changes in Lord Lee’s portfolio ...

That makes it a huge time saver. But it’s also targeted. Armed with as many parameters as they want – be it absolute sales, a five-year growth rate, current leverage or cheapness – stockpickers can ...

“In healthcare, DCC distributes a broad range of single-use medical devices, consumables and other equipment to more than 30,000 customers. The company also manufactures nutritional supplements and ...

This is buying time for a more comprehensive deal – it allows time for the process and ‘mechanism’, in the words of Treasury secretary Bessent, to take place. He insisted that strategic rebalancing of ...

Interest rate risk (the risk that your investment falls in value due to the inverse relationship between bond prices and base rates) is currently the lesser of the two evils, despite alarm in the bond ...