Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Getty Images Homebuilder Persimmon led the FTSE 100 lower on Wednesday as it released a gloomy trading assessment for the new year At £12.95 per share the company was ...
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Weir Group Leads FTSE 100 Higher As 2022 Profits Beat Forecasts
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg © 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP Engineering business Weir Group pulled the FTSE 100 index higher in midweek business following the release of better-than-expected fu...
Wizz Air and EasyJet shares lead FTSE 250 as confidence rises
Budget airlines stocks led the FTSE 250 index on Friday as demand for the sector rose. Wizz Air (LON: WIZZ) and EasyJet (LON: EZJ) share prices jumped by over 3%, continuing the recovery that started ...
Coca-Cola HBC Rises 5.9%, Leads FTSE 100 Higher As Sales Hit Record Levels
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Getty Images The Coca-ColaKO Hellenic Bottling Company (HBC) share price soared on Tuesday as it announced record sales for the last year. At £20.56 per share the...
U.K.’s FTSE 100 scaling fresh highs despite cost of living crisis
The sun rises over the city on Feb. 6, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. is facing the weakest growth prospects in the G-7 and a catalogue ...
U.K.’s FTSE Reaches All-Time High But It’s Still Cheap
Get your cheap U.K. PLC while stocks last at these one-time only prices getty The U.K. market is cheap even as it makes all-time highs. After the pension fund bailout this autumn, up has shot the mark...
Should you buy UK stocks now that FTSE 100 trades at a new all-time high?
Most of the attention in the past few months has been on the Federal Reserve’s potential pivot and what it might mean for equities and the US dollar. Sure enough, the Fed is the leading central bank i...
FTSE 100 Break Out Preempts Bank Of England Surrender To Inflation
The U.K. financial system nearly broke this autumn when rising interest rates created a vicious … [+] circle of margin calls driving the stock market into free fall. getty The U.K. financial sys...
Ken Griffin’s Citadel is short these FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 shares
Ken Griffin’s Citadel had a blockbuster in 2022 as its hedge fund made a whopping $16 billion. The Financial Times then described him as the King of Hedgies, as he beat the previous all-time record of...
Direct Line Slumps 25% As It Axes Dividend On Claims Spike
Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images Corbis via Getty Images Direct Line Insurance Group’s share price collapsed on Wednesday as it cancelled dividends due to a tough end to 2022. At 175p...
2023 FTSE Prediction: Another Tough Year
FTSE 100 Financial Times Stock Exchange Index United Kingdom. getty The FTSE is the least stellar market amongst the west bourses and the U.K. is going through a period where it not only has to ride o...
What FTSE Income Investors Need To Consider In 2023
Investing for income. getty What is the point of investing in income shares only to see their value drop more than the income? You look at them and go, great company, great yield, why is it falling? I...
Best FTSE 100 dividend aristocrats for 2023
2023 is expected to be a difficult year for the UK as it goes through a difficult stagflation period. A combination of high inflation, slow growth and high-interest rates could lead to underperformanc...
Buy The FTSE 100 For The Holidays
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP The FTSE 100 market has been the single strongest of the developed markets in the month of December, up almost 80% of the time for a 2....
Is the FTSE 100 a buy ahead of BoE and UK CPI data?
The FTSE 100 index remained under pressure on Tuesday as investors waited for the upcoming UK inflation and Bank of England (BoE) interest rate decision. It was trading at £7,460, which was a few poin...
FTSE 250 Stocks Round-Up: Tritax Eurobox, SSP Group
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg © 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP FTSE 250 shares Tritax EuroBox and SSP Group have both gained value following fresh trading statements on Tuesday. Here are the key ...
Ashtead Hikes Full-Year Forecasts. Should You Buy The FTSE 100 Stock Today?
Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images LightRocket via Getty Images Rental equipment provider Ashtead Group’s share price rose on Tuesday after it updated guidan...
FTSE 100 forecast for December 2022
The FTSE 100 index has recovered modestly in the past few weeks as hopes of central banks’ pivot increased. It rallied to a high of £7,633, which was the highest level since June. This recovery has tu...
Firm behind FTSE 100 Launches Crypto Index Series
Development and adoption of the crypto space in the past years have prompted the expansion of mechanisms that assess the credibility of virtual tokens. FTSE Russel, the firm that launched the London S...
FTSE 100 price forecast ahead of the last trading month of the year
It was a wild year for UK investors. Besides double-digit inflation and labor shortages, politics moved financial markets too. Take the mini-budget’s announcement, for instance. It triggered a sharp m...
FTSE 1000 creator announces Crypto Index Series
Leading index provider FTSE Russell announced eight separate cryptocurrency indexes built with help from Digital Asset Research. FTSE Russell announced eight cryptocurrency indices ranging from large ...
FTSE Russell to introduce 8 new digital asset indexes
Data and analytics firm FTSE Russell, which is owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, is rolling out a market cap index series covering the investable digital asset market. It includes eight ...
FTSE 100 price forecast amid the upcoming UK economic recession
Since Brexit happened, the United Kingdom’s economy has underperformed. No economy should be treated in isolation, but the particular problems created by Brexit are too impactful to be ignored. Accord...
FTSE 100 Round-Up: BAE Systems, Imperial Brands
Photo by Cate Gillon/Getty Images Getty Images FTSE 100 shares BAE Systems and Imperial Brands both issued market updates on Tuesday. Here are the key takeaways from their latest releases. “Very Stron...
Informa Leads The FTSE 100 Higher As It Upgrades Forecasts
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Centrica Leads FTSE 100 Higher, Up 9% As Earnings Forecasts Upgraded
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images NurPhoto via Getty Images Energy giant Centrica has upgraded its profits forecasts for the full year and announced a £200 million-plus share buyback p...
FTSE 100 Stock ABF Rises As Primark Profits Rocket 136% Year On Year
Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images Getty Images Associated British Foods’ share price rose on Tuesday following the release of reassuring full-year trading numbers. At £14.60 per share it was last 2...
FTSE 100 Stock Persimmon Slumps 7% As Update Reveals Sinking Housing Market
Photo by David Potter/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images Getty Images Housebuilder Persimmon slumped in Tuesday trading as it announced falling demand for its homes and rising cancellations....
The FTSE Cannot Escape A Runaway Dollar
U.S. currency in a bull market. getty We find ourselves in the lap of the gods. A desperate economic crisis is not fate, yet every day we grind close to the abyss. The U.K. is the ‘”canary in the coal...
FTSE 100 price forecast after October Flash Manufacturing PMI misses expectations
The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of financial news lately. Political instability created wild fluctuations in the currency and bond markets, making it difficult for investors to foresee th...
FTSE 100 index forecast for November 2022
FTSE 100 index advanced on Friday and closed the week at 6,969 points even though Liz Truss resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Liz Truss spent only 44 days in office, which makes he...