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Shareholders left wishing they could return Royal Mail to sender

Today’s full-year results from Royal Mail, which live down to very low profit expectations, confirm the cancellation of the dividend and acknowledge the firm’s...

Thu, 25/06/2020 - 13:26

Berkeley builds up land bank even as it returns more cash to shareholders

The record of the management team at Berkeley Group, and chairman Tony Pidgley in particular, at calling the housing cycle is second to none...

Wed, 17/06/2020 - 16:46

Inflation falls as lockdown bites

Consumption practically ground to a halt in May, with large swathes of the country shut down due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Another drop in inflation...

Wed, 17/06/2020 - 13:30

Ashtead keeps dividend streak alive as it focuses on cash

Reports of a $1 trillion infrastructure plan from the White House in the USA could make it a doubly good day for investors in ...

Tue, 16/06/2020 - 17:05

UK banks sit bottom of the global pile

Boosted by governments’ plans to ease their respective lockdowns, as well as fiscal and stimulus programmes designed to support the global economy, banking stocks had...

Thu, 11/06/2020 - 16:26

Johnson Matthey dividend cut another jolt for income seekers

Johnson Matthey’s decision to cut its dividend – and in the process end a streak of increases that dates back to the late 1980s...

Thu, 11/06/2020 - 13:29

Little cheer from Chinatown owner Shaftesbury – but how much bad news is already in the valuation?

An 11% in Net Asset Value (NAV) per share, a slowdown in leasing activity and the well-flagged cancellation of the interim dividend at Shaftesbury...

Wed, 10/06/2020 - 17:40

UK workers prepared to pay extra 4% income tax to fund £300bn pandemic bill

Battling back from Covid-19 is going to be a long hard journey. As the UK Government eases lockdown restrictions and state support for the economy...

Thu, 04/06/2020 - 17:05

Tesco’s Stewart becomes latest change in FTSE CFO list (sixteen and counting in 2020 or 2021)

One of the odd features that characterised the FTSE 100 before the Covid-19 crisis was the number of chief executive (CEO) and chief financial officers...

Tue, 02/06/2020 - 14:27

FTSE 100 could be in for its biggest shake-up since 2009 as latest index shuffle looms

Despite their latest sharp rallies, easyJet and Carnival are still very likely to lose their FTSE 100 status in the latest quarterly reshuffle,...

Wed, 27/05/2020 - 13:43

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