Shares and the stockmarket

On 26 October UK shareholders in consumer goods giant Unilever will vote on a plan which would see the business exit the FTSE 100...

Nearly two years after an initial £10.75 per share takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, shareholders in pay-TV giant Sky have...

“Today’s huge leap in Whitbread’s shares following the sale of Costa Coffee, breaking up the group far more quickly than expected and for a...

“Apple’s third-quarter earnings easily beat analysts’ forecasts, as sales rose 17% and earnings per share soared by 40%, as price increases on its hardware and...

It’s not as if much further evidence was needed, but today shows just how tough it is to be a retailer in the current environment...

Sterling has suffered three crises of confidence since 1945, so a repeat cannot be entirely ruled out owing to the current political upheaval and lack...

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since the days when Deep Blue faced Garry Kasparov over a chess board. Matt Brennan, AJ Bell Investments’...

America’s headline S&P 500 index is up by just 2% for the year in dollar terms, which seems like a pretty paltry return given how...

It is two years since the British public voted in favour of Brexit and financial markets continue to approach March 2019 with a degree of...

Today it is the turn of the National Audit Office to unpick and quantify the cost of the Carillion debacle. The NAO hands out further...