Shares of Atkore Inc. (NYSE: ATKR) rocketed higher on Monday, surging as much as 27% in premarket and early trading after the electrical and infrastructure products maker announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Ita

Puma SE posted second-quarter results on Friday that came in slightly ahead of expectations, but analysts at mwb Research are maintaining a Hold rating and a €25.00 price target on the German sportswear giant, citing persiste

TotalEnergies has agreed to acquire Shell's (LON: SHEL) entire European onshore renewables business, marking one of the biggest consolidation moves yet in the region's clean power sector as the British major continues to retr

Shares in Unite Group (LON: UTG), the UK's largest student accommodation provider, were in focus on Monday, August 3, 2026, after Citigroup downgraded the FTSE 250 real estate investment trust to "Neutral" fr

Netcall (LON: NET), the AIM-listed maker of the AI-powered Liberty customer-engagement and automation platform, published its FY26 trading update on 21 July, reporting 20% revenue growth. Two weeks on, the shares remain stuck below their January h

Savills plc (LON: SVS), the global real estate services group, confirmed on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of US investment bank Eastdil Secured Holdings, LLC, with shares rising in early trading. The stock traded at 935p on M

Plus500 (LON: PLUS), the multi-asset trading platform, saw its shares fall on Monday morning even as it announced the launch of Single Stock Futures in the US, a move that extends its product range but was not sized financially by the company.

AstraZeneca (LON: AZN), the Cambridge-based pharmaceutical group, saw its shares fall sharply today after the Financial Times reported that the company has held preliminary talks with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) about a possible merger.

London's blue-chips opened mixed on Monday, with the FTSE 100 initially down before climbing 0.1% while the mid-cap FTSE 250 added 0.5%. [stock_market_widget type="chart" tem

Shares in RWS Holdings (LON: RWS) rose around 10% on Monday morning, trading near 106p, after the AIM-listed AI content and language solutions group announced a binding agreement to acquire Acogroup, the parent of Acolad, a l

Shares in Clarkson PLC (LON: CKN) surged 15% on Monday morning after the shipping services group posted record first-half results and said full-year profit would come in “materially ahead” of market expectations, as disruptio

Shares in easyJet (LON: EZJ) have risen around 2.5% on Monday morning after the airline confirmed it had aligned the "put up or shut up" (PUSU) deadlines for the two private equity groups vying to take the budget carrier priv

UBS's Chief Investment Office believes the S&P 500 has further room to climb, arguing that "constructive fundamentals" continue to underpin the rally despite recent bouts of volatility tied to leveraged position unwinds.

US markets face another pivotal week of corporate earnings beginning August 3, with five heavyweight names worth a combined $2.8 trillion set to report results that could reshape sentiment across pharma, semiconductors, and i

London's boardrooms open their books this week in what is another busy FTSE earnings run, with a trillion pounds of combined market value reporting between Monday and Thursday.

AstraZeneca (LON: AZN), the UK's second most valuable listed company, has held discussions with US pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb about a possible merger that would create one of the largest drugmakers in the world

NatWest Group (LON: NWG), the Edinburgh-based retail and commercial bank, said pre-tax profit rose 20% to £4.3bn in the first half, beating analyst estimates of around £4bn. Shares jumped 3.2% to close at 705.8p on Friday, a fresh 52-week high aga

The FTSE 100 pushed to a fresh intraday record on Friday morning, up 0.7%, as investors shrugged off Middle East tensions.

Shares in J Sainsbury plc (LON: SBRY) rose sharply on Friday after the supermarket giant announced it has agreed to sell Argos to Swift Partners, a newly formed retail investment vehicle.

Shares in Taylor Wimpey (LON: TW.) fell sharply on Friday, dropping around 3.9% to 79.79p, after the UK housebuilder cut its shareholder distribution policy alongside half-year results that highlighted a tougher-than-expected