Aviva (AV.) is set to buy Direct Line (DLG) for almost £4bn in cash and shares, having struck a preliminary deal earlier this ...

The latest Budget stands to further increase the size of the state at a time when the economy is crying out for major ...

In 1990, economists won a Nobel Prize for identifying the risk of having an overly correlated portfolio. However, in 2024 the stock market put that risk aside as it became historically concentrated ...

Even with a "brutal" push to hit neutral cash, as one supplier described it, Vistry will also end the year with significantly higher net debt than forecast ...

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American exceptionalism is set to be the talk of 2025, but for investors it has always been a theme: the after-inflation ...

On a forward price/earnings multiple, ITV sits between its European counterparts – below Germany’s RTL (DE:RRTL), but ahead ...

Concerns about weaker global growth and higher inflation will drive more interest in gold in 2025, she argues. Similarly, JPMorgan said in its 2025 outlook that it remained bullish on gold, setting a ...

Next Monday brings confirmation of third quarter GDP figures for the UK. Recent data has been underwhelming: preliminary data showed growth of just 0.1 per cent, dragged down by a contraction in ...

Names like NatWest and Rolls Royce have generated huge gains this year Some funds now look heavily exposed to these winners Amid worries over the health of the London Stock Exchange, the FTSE 100 ...

DJ: What about the economic backdrop. We've had a bit of a recovery. Consumer confidence has been hurt, perhaps by the Budget, but is coming back a little bit now. Incomes have been OK this year as ...

Activist investor Saba Capital has cast a pretty long shadow over the investment trust sector as of late. This week saw an attempt to oust the boards at seven investment trusts. Whatever the merits of ...