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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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It might not be the greatest Christmas film about banking (see Trading Places ), but the 1946 picture about George Bailey, a ...

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 ...

Ofwat boss David Black said the pricing determination would allow a combined £104bn of capital spending, which the companies ...

Amid worries over the health of the London Stock Exchange, the FTSE 100 delivered some serious winners in 2024, with major companies doubling in value and helping balance out, a mixed year for energy ...

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 ...