The pound hit a month high after better-than-expected GDP figures, Wall Street keeps hitting record eyes and all eyes are on US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his Russian counterpart tomorrow.

Even so, small caps aren’t the only way of generating top returns. The best-performing Japanese fund over five years, Nomura Japan Strategic Value (IE00B3W35Q81), has a large-cap focus, while some ...

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In the currency markets, the US dollar has rebounded slightly from its H1 lows. It gained 3.1 per cent against the euro and 3.9 per cent against sterling. With a robust US economy, the Federal Reserve ...

The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska – and the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine – has prompted some share price jitters for the aerospace and defence industry.

Share prices are based on the opinion of multiple market participants about a company’s intrinsic value. Anexo’s market price only collapsed after the bidding consortium launched their offer, and is ...

Based on the current trajectory, the think-tank forecasts that the government will be unable to meet its ‘stability rule’ that day-to-day spending is covered by tax receipts, and that we will be faced ...

CPI inflation rose more than expected in the last reading, to 3.6 per cent in June. The MPC now thinks price growth will peak at 4 per cent in September, driven higher by food prices.

Invesco Global Emerging Markets (GB00BJ04FP47), which has returned close to 15 per cent this year, has 22.4 per cent in China. That, while high, is still less exposure than the underlying market (and ...

The shares trade on less than half book value, even though an IPO of its largest holding could produce a cash windfall ...

The copper market was in flux in the first half of 2025, the price diverging significantly between Europe and the US. But Atalaya Mining (ATYM) managed to line up higher production and prices with ...

This is where Diversified Energy (DEC) tries to profit. The energy business buys up mature wells in the hope they can generate more value from them in their final years. Reportedly, in can plug wells ...