The outlook for the rest of the year is also subdued, with the Office for Budget Responsibility estimating that growth for 2025 as a whole will come in at just 1 per cent, roughly in line with last ...

For now the London spot price is the most reliable gauge of price. Jobless claims ticked up to the highest since 2021. Labour market is still tight, not much hiring or firing...goes to the point that ...

One point worth bearing in mind, however, is that although Next’s chief executive Simon Wolfson has consistently displayed uncanny strategic foresight in an industry which, by its very nature, is ...

Flutter Entertainment (FLTR) upped full-year guidance after a solid second quarter, with group revenue up 16 per cent to $4.2bn (£3.1bn) and adjusted Ebitda climbing 25 per cent to $919mn. Average ...

Clearly investors cannot take it for granted that companies are safe from episodes of poor judgment, whether of their own making or the parties they deal with, despite the oversight of regulators and ...

A year ago, Ferrexpo was optimistically talking about reopening a third pelletiser line depending on Black Sea port access, but the cash crunch it now finds itself in means it has had to halt one of ...

That spectre is the threat of increased competition – one of the chief motivators for BT’s Openreach arm having funnelled so much money into digging up the nation’s roads in the first place. Network ...

The FTSE 100 slid about 0.3 per cent early doors due chiefly to a raft of blue chips moving ex-dividend. Hikma, which reported today, led the actual fallers, slipping about 8 per cent after profits ...

Zegona Communications (ZEG) is unlike most companies. The group hunts for unloved European telecoms assets, aiming to turn them around before selling them on at a profit. It rewards its executives ...

Storm Floris might have been raging at the time of writing, but a more sedate atmosphere in the first half of the year has caused problems for the renewable infrastructure trusts. Updates covering the ...

Glencore (GLEN) has decided to maintain its primary listing in London, citing concerns over whether the group would be included within the S&P 500 index if it made the move to New York. The revelation ...