Shares and the stockmarket

All eyes on dividend payments as Big Five Banks prepare to report their results

Unchanged or increased payments from Smurfit Kappa, CCH, AstraZeneca and RELX in the past week mean FTSE 100 firms have declared dividends worth £5.2 billion...

Thu, 11/02/2021 - 18:42

Market trends after one year of COVID are clear but Pfizer Monday changed them all

It seems remarkable now just how relaxed financial markets were during the early stages of the covid-19 outbreak in Asia and even Italy, but confidence...

Wed, 10/02/2021 - 15:41

The Super Bowl Rule: Will Buccaneers’ win signal in fresh surge in US stocks?

Gamblers who sided with the favoured Kansas City Chiefs will have lost their money as the defending champions lost the fifty-fifth Super Bowl to the...

Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:08

Shell tantalises shareholders with promise of a first-quarter dividend increase in 2021

Shell’s fourth-quarter and full-year results were undeniably ugly, as both offered huge losses, but the oil major’s promise of a dividend of $0.1735 a...

Thu, 04/02/2021 - 17:51

Come back Sir John Barnard, all is forgiven: social media traders start surfing silver

First GameStop, next up silver seems to be the message on social media as the precious metal’s price hits a six-month high at just...

Mon, 01/02/2021 - 16:44

Five questions investors need to answer before the Gamestop game comes to a stop

Although the past few days’ frenzied activity in Gamestop is putting hedge funds, shorting and short-squeezes firmly back in the headlights, the most shorted...

Thu, 28/01/2021 - 17:16

Race for dominance of the fast-fashion markets heats up as ASOS and Boohoo look for bargains of their own

Confirmation that ASOS is looking to buy certain assets from the fallen Arcadia group, notably Topshop, and Boohoo’s response that it is now...

Mon, 25/01/2021 - 14:32