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RELX Shares: Analyst Says Execution Contines to Support Long-Term Case

RELX (LON: REL) remains one of Hargreaves Lansdown's five shares to watch in 2026, with the firm's mid-year review noting that while the company has been caught up in the wider AI debate, "the company's own narrative has been

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YouGov Shares in Focus as Pollster Eyes New Boss Amid Activist Pressure

YouGov (LON: YOU), the London-listed polling firm, is reportedly closing in on a successor to interim chief executive Stephan Shakespeare, according to

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Alphabet, Tesla and Intel Headline Pivotal Earnings Week for Wall Street

Corporate America's biggest earnings week of the summer arrives with three trillion-dollar-plus companies set to report, and investors are bracing for volatility. Alphabet, Tesla and Intel — together representing well over $5

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FTSE Heavyweights RELX, BT Group and EasyJet Take Centre Stage Next Week

Investors face a packed diary in the week beginning Monday 20 July 2026, with a number of London-listed companies reporting, but three names stand out as the ones to watch: RELX (LON: REL), BT Group (LON: BT.A) and easyJet (L

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Funding Circle Shares Jump to 52-Week High as Half-Year Profit Nearly Quadruples

Funding Circle shares hit a 52-week high after the SME lender said first-half revenue rose 50% and pre-tax profit nearly quadrupled to £23 million. Funding Circle Holdings PLC, (LSE:FCH) the UK's leading small business finance platform, saw its stoc

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Alumasc shares tumble after board suspends CEO amid conduct probe

Alumasc Group shares fell sharply after the building products firm suspended CEO Pamela Bingham pending a professional conduct investigation. Alumasc Group PLC (LSE:ALU) shares dropped sharply on Friday after the board suspended chief executive Pame

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Friday Morning Markets: FTSE 100 Edges Up as Vodafone Rally Rolls On; Burberry Slips

The FTSE 100 has risen 0.3% in early Friday trading, though sentiment is weaker elsewhere with the

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Wise Shares Slip Despite Strong Q1 Growth as Investors Eye Margin Pressure

Shares in Wise Group plc (LSE: WISE; Nasdaq: WSE) fell around 2.5% on Friday morning, even as the money-transfer specialist posted double-digit growth across its key metrics for the first quarter of its 2027 financial year.

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Burberry Shares Slide Despite Return to Growth Across All Divisions

Burberry Group (LON: BRBY) shares have fallen more than 5% in early trading on Friday after the luxury fashion house's first-quarter update, even though the report showed the British brand returning to growth across all four

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PayPal Stock: What Happens Next After the Takeover Bombshell

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) shares extended Wednesday's gains on Thursday, closing up 2.2% at $56.73 as investors continued digesting the scale of the reported Stripe-Advent takeover approach and began pricing in the odds of a deal

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Why AST SpaceMobile Shares Tumbled Today

AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) shares plunged more than 17% on Thursday, July 16, 2026, closing near $55.01, after the satellite broadband company announced late Wednesday that it would raise $1 billion through a private offe

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Shore Capital Sees M&S Shares Potentially Doubling as Investment Thesis Progresses

Shore Capital said it sees a path for Marks & Spencer's (LON: MKS) share price to double over the medium-to-longer term, following a meeting with Chair Archie Norman. [sto

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TD Cowen Trims BP Price Target Amid Mixed Trading Update

TD Cowen lowered its price target on BP. (LON: BP.) (NYSE: BP) in a research note issued Thursday, as analysts weighed the oil major's volatile mix of stronger refining margins against fresh impairment charges and softer prod

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Rolls-Royce Shares in Focus as Company Joins Boeing, Lufthansa in Fuel-Efficiency Flight Tests

Rolls-Royce (LON: RR.) is teaming up with Boeing and Lufthansa to flight-test new technologies aimed at cutting fuel consumption and reducing aircraft noise, in a collaboration that also supports the FAA's CLEEN programme.

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Trustpilot Shares Slide 10% As Steady Guidance Overshadows First-Half Beat

Trustpilot shares fell sharply on Thursday after the review platform beat first-half forecasts but left its full-year guidance unchanged. Trustpilot Group's (LSE:TRST) shares dropped around 10% on Thursday after the online reviews platform posted st

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Frasers Group Shares Fall 5% After Adjusted Profit Slips and Guidance Is Withheld

Sports Direct owner posts higher revenue but lower adjusted profit, and withholds 2027 guidance, citing its live takeover bids for Hugo Boss and Accent Group. Frasers Group (LSE:FRAS) shares fell sharply on Thursday after the retailer repor

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Thursday Morning Markets: FTSE Edges Lower as Rotork Rockets on ABB Takeover; Ocado Slumps

London's FTSE 100 is down around 0.4% in early trading on Thursday, though the FTSE 250 edged up 0.1%.  Meanwhile, on the continent, Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40

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Gooch & Housego Shares Soar After £345.6m Private Equity Takeover

Shares in Gooch & Housego (LON: GHH) jumped sharply on Thursday after the AIM-listed photonics specialist agreed to a recommended cash takeover by Greenlight Bidco, a vehicle backed by US private equity firm Arlington Cap

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Ocado Shares Slump Despite Headline Growth as Underlying Weakness Exposed

Shares in Ocado Group (LON: OCDO) plunged as much as 16% on Thursday, falling from a previous close of 177.7p to around 149p, wiping out hundreds of millions of pounds in market value, after the warehouse robotics group's hal

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Rotork Shares Rocket After ABB Agrees £4.1 Billion Cash Takeover

ABB has agreed a recommended £4.1 billion cash acquisition of Rotork Plc sending the FTSE 250 flow-control specialist's shares sharply higher on Thursday. Shares in Rotork (LSE:ROR) were trading at 484.4p on Thursday morning, up 66.6% from Wednesday

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