Consumer brands were once reliable outperformers. Lately, even established names such as Diageo, Unilever, and Reckitt Benckiser - companies that had steadily compounded shareholder value over many years - have struggled.brb...
?brbrbrbrThe Starter ISA was one of the most striking measures in Chancellor John Healey's first Autumn Budget.brbrVery little has been disclosed about the product so far. It will be developed with the UK's investme...
?brbrbrbrAI and technology shares rose early this week after Anthropic released its IPO prospectus. The filing showed that the Claude chatbot maker generated more than $16 billion in revenue during the first half, a fig...
?brbrbrbrChancellor John Healey's first Autumn Budget centred on the pressure of rising living costs.brbrHis 28 October speech and the accompanying Budget document included measures aimed at households facing higher...
Self-employed? A SIPP could still be worth consideringbrbrbrbrFigures from the Pensions Commission - set up by the government to examine retirement planning among the UK population - show that only 4% of people who are ...
Since then, conditions have changed. Gold slipped below $4,000/oz in June and July as rising oil prices stoked fears about inflation. Investors moved away from expecting more Federal Reserve rate cuts and began considering poss...
?brbrbrbrNew analysis found that more than a third of homes on the market sit in postcode areas where prices are falling.brbrZoopla attributed the pressure to two factors: an unusually large supply of properties and...
More people are living on their own. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that 8.6 million people in the UK did so in 2025, compared with 7.7 million in 2015. Single-person households made up 29.5% of all households ...
Investors hunting for emerging-market opportunities should cast their eyes beyond Asia's better-known names, including Taiwan, China, and South Korea.brbrAdnan El-Araby, lead manager of the Barings Emerging EMEA Opportuniti...
The British firm is joining London's junior market, AIM. That is welcome news at a time when the London stock market has spent much of the past decade contracting. British companies have gone private, while others have been dra...