Meanwhile, National Savings & Investments (NS&I) has announced it will cut the Premium Bonds prize rate to 3.6 per cent starting from the August draw, from the current 3.8 per cent. The odds of ...

This capital investment sets it up for years to come, so it could easily pull back on spending to boost cash flow if it wanted. Balance sheet strength is always a desirable quality in a business. But ...

Around a quarter of all seaborne oil trade moves through this narrow corridor, as does 20 per cent of global liquid natural gas (LNG). Traders took the threat of disruption seriously: Brent crude ...

Mobico expects full-year adjusted operating profit to come in between £180mn and £195mn, excluding any contribution from the school bus business. The company has also named Brian Egan as permanent ...

In Europe, shares are trading much firmer, with Frankfurt rising more than 2 per cent and Paris a little behind. US stock markets were already in a bullish mood last night with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and ...

Ever since June 2007, our Momentum Classics screen has tracked the performance of the FTSE 100’s biggest quarterly risers and ...

The ‘wisdom of crowds’ tells us that a large group should be smarter than an individual when it comes to decision-making and ...

The Aim-listed miner’s first bid for New World was almost double its undisturbed share price. The draw is the Antler copper project in Arizona, which could produce around 30,000 tonnes a year once in ...

The board of FTSE 250 precision measurement business Spectris (SXS) has agreed to a takeover offer from US private equity investor Advent at an enterprise value of £4.4bn.

Marks and Spencer (MKS) kicked off its summer sale on 19 June with a bit more stock to shift than usual.

Then there’s the UK. A notable fall in April’s figures was backed up by last week’s GDP data, which reported a 0.3 per cent ...

That is set to bring in just under £6,000, which, when set aside for this year’s interim payout (an increase of 16 per cent ...