Shares and the stockmarket

Is it right for Lowland to continue being so heavily invested in industrial sector companies given the economy is late stage in its cycle?

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The FTSE 100’s dash to a new intra-day all time high of 7,130 in early October may remain a source of bafflement to many investors,...

​​Unilever’s clash with Tesco over the price of Marmite, ice-cream and other household products brings the issue of the pound’s decline and its...

In early October, while on a trip to the USA, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced that the Government would again try to sell...

A series of drops in US oil inventories and the announcement that OPEC’s late-September Algerian summit could lead to production cuts are boosting the oil...

Taken in aggregate, profit and dividend forecasts can give a feel for whether one equity market looks cheap or expensive relative to another, or relative...

The £24.3 billion, cash only acquisition of UK microchip designer ARM by Japan's Softbank was officially sealed on 5th September, removing a high quality technology...

Any investors who followed the old market maxim “Sell In May” will be cursing, as equity, bond and commodity markets generally look and feel bouncy...

A swathe of post-Brexit vote property fund suspensions in June and July frayed the nerves of investors, with some commentators drawing doomsday comparisons with the...

It took the best part of 14 months but America’s S&P 500 benchmark equity index finally set a new all-time high this month while US...