The Monetary Policy Committee is divided. In June it voted 6-3 to keep rates on hold; in May there were five votes for a 25bps cut, two for a hold and two for a 50bps cut. Once August is done, the ...

The FTSE 100 finished up 4.2 per cent for July, its best month since January, but trades down today, sitting just below the 9,100. There wasn’t much to shout about – Melrose up a lot with profits ...

The travails of the UK’s best-known stockpicker are well known at this point. Fundsmith Equity (GB00B41YBW71), the Terry Smith vehicle known for a decade or so of superior returns, has not managed to ...

Even if they weren’t at a construction site, hard hats would have been advisable for US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week. Investors may need ...

Mittal’s Bharti Enterprises conglomerate is the ultimate owner of BT’s fellow FTSE 100 telco company Airtel Africa (AAF), a notably strong market performer in 2025. The company’s shares have risen ...

Dan Jones and the team discuss whether asset managers are back, the best way to retire and a busy earnings season ...

In the six months, H&H delivered 21 per cent growth on a pro forma basis and contributed £3.4mn of revenue. Another key point to note is that Venture Life has been making strategic investment in ...

The government’s target increasingly appears fantastical. But what does this mean for investing in the industry?

Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson said the Tesla chief executive seeks inspiration from the French general and believes that wherever Napoleon was, that was “where his armies would do ...

Britain’s national debt could rise to 270 per cent of GDP by the 2070s. That’s according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), assuming current spending and tax patterns continue. It’s a ...

The upshot is that ONT’s latest trading update was far more positive than anticipated, with first-half sales up by a quarter. And although margins took an inventory-related hit, adjusted Ebitda losses ...

The copper division also saw a drop in Ebitda, to $1.76bn, but this was down to an expected fall in production and in line with analyst expectations. The copper market hit turbulence alongside the ...