Next week will at least bring us nearer to understanding the extent of the stagnation, with the arrival of preliminary UK GDP figures for the fourth quarter. Third-quarter growth was zero, and monthly ...

Markets are primed for another strong US payrolls report with +154,000 expected after last month’s blowout of 256,000. Unemployment is seen steady at 4.1 per cent. I guess the Federal Reserve’s Lorie ...

Consequently, Prudential has been trading at a 25-30 per cent discount to US-Hong Kong–based multinational insurance group AIA (HK:1299). UBS pitches a target rice of 1,270p, with half of the implied ...

While the sales market is sluggish, the rental market is booming. Enter build to rent (BTR). Berkeley is not the only investor to identify the opportunity: other housebuilders such as Vistry (VTY) ...

The performance data below gives an overall summary of how sectors have performed over the past 12 months (although note those sectors don’t always map precisely onto our FTSE 350 groupings). General ...

The IC team is back with results on two pharmaceutical stocks and a British housebuilder, plus a trading update on a big name in hospitality ...

Greatland Gold (GGP) says its new Telfer gold and copper mine could stay in production well beyond the 15-month life outlined when its purchase was first agreed with Newmont (US:NEM) last September, ...

While demand for travel will increase globally, those with European exposure have other issues to contend with ...

One reason behind the series of speeches about how growth is to be unlocked is the succession of worrying signals emerging on the economy in recent weeks. These include a retrenchment in hiring, with ...

When we last reviewed F&C in January 2023 , Niven had just completed a portfolio reorganisation that involved reducing the trust’s exposure to large-cap growth stocks and increasing its exposure to US ...

Meanwhile, growth is back in the connectivity division, which the group said “continued to lead the recovery cycle”. The order book is up by 4 per cent, taking the book-to-bill ratio to 1.01 – the ...

It's generally something of a rare event if Nick Train adds even one new holding to a fund. As such, the recent revelation that two new names have entered his UK portfolios, Lindsell Train UK Equity ...