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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Industrial companies are generally quite cyclical. When economies are growing, consumers spend more and companies invest more in equipment. In the case of Spectris (SXS), it sells precision measuring ...

Making complete sense of Hutchmed’s (HCM) operations has never been entirely straightforward, along with tracking its name changes over the years, but the company has been consistently in the right ...

Shares in Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK) took another dive on interim results day as it became clear that the impact of margin pressure that has characterised the past year shows few signs of easing.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) opened a record number of rooms in the first half, bringing 207 hotels containing 31,400 rooms into its network. This grew the total by 4.6 per cent year on year to ...

The share prices of car finance providers such as Lloyds Bank and Close Brothers were rewarded with a big boost this week following the Supreme Court’s ruling on commission payments, sparing them from ...

The shock loss of Serco’s (SRP) Australian immigration contract earlier this year now feels like a distant memory. Its acquisition of Northrop Grumman’s (US:NOC) MT&S business has shifted the company ...

The ‘management incentive scheme’ (MIS), which dates back to when Zegona was an unlisted shell company, entitles the top team to divide between them 15 per cent of any increase in shareholder value ...