NEXT plc (LON: NXT) shares are up around 2.8% at the open on Thursday after the company reported a better-than-expected first half, with full price sales up 7.7% and total sales including markdown rising 8.9%.

Debenhams Group (formerly boohoo group plc) (LON: DEBS) reported accelerating growth in a trading update for the six months to 31 August 2026, with adjusted EBITDA up 13.9% and reported EBITDA up 731%.

Kepler Cheuvreux downgraded Associated British Foods (LON: ABF) to "Hold" from "Buy" on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, cutting its price target to 1,900 pence from 2,100 pence.

Shares in BAE Systems (LON: BA.) climbed 1.2% on Wednesday after the defence contractor confirmed it had secured $16 million in Defense Production Act Title III funding from the US Department of War, boosting

Reckitt Benckiser Group (LON: RKT), the maker of Lysol and Mucinex, plans to invest approximately $400 million in its U.S. operations over the next four years, according to a report by The Wall Street Jou

Generac Holdings (NYSE: GNRC) shares surged in after-hours trading Wednesday after the backup-power equipment maker unveiled a landmark, long-term supply agreement with Amazon.com to provide generators for Amazon's data cente

Evercore ISI added BP (LON: BP.) to its "Tactical Outperform" list on Wednesday, pointing to a surge in cash generation as higher oil prices lift the energy major's finances.

UK unemployment held at 4.9% in the three months to July, below the 5.0% consensus estimate, but vacancies fell to their lowest level outside the pandemic since 2014 and payrolled employment kept slipping, a labour market cooling gradually rat

Filtronic shares surged after the AIM-listed radio-frequency specialist landed a third contract from the same US satellite customer within six months, extending a fast-growing customer relationship.

Persimmon shares climbed almost 4% on Wednesday as housebuilders rallied on relief that August inflation data left the Bank of England unlikely to raise rates this week.

UK inflation rose to 3.1% in August, up from 2.9% in July, driven by fuel costs, but sterling barely moved, leaving tomorrow's Bank of England decision as the bigger risk for traders.

The activist Japan investment trust grew its net assets and narrowed its share price discount in the first half, but its returns fell well short of a booming Japanese stock market.

Volvere's first-half profit fell sharply after Shire Foods lost last year's exceptional trading volumes, sending the AIM-listed group's shares down sharply despite a resilient balance sheet.

Oracle Power's interim loss narrows for a second straight half as the AIM microcap leans on a newly granted mining lease at its Australian gold project, even as cash reserves thin further.

Advanced Medical Solutions grew revenue and adjusted profit in the first half, but scrapped its dividend and saw reported profit collapse as its takeover by H.B. Fuller nears completion.

Facilities by ADF warned that full-year profit will miss market expectations after UK film and TV production spending slumped, sending its AIM-listed shares down sharply.

Supermarket Income REIT's shares rose after annual results showed portfolio growth to £2bn, even as earnings per share fell and dividend cover weakened.

80 Mile flagged a going-concern warning as its half-year loss widened and cash fell sharply, just as the AIM explorer sits inside a formal takeover offer period from Nasdaq-listed Greenland Energy.

London's benchmarks opened firmer on Wednesday, with the FTSE 100 up 0.3% and the

Winkworth's franchise business held up against a tough comparator, but a High Court dispute with its own Non-Executive Chair is set to drag reported profit well below expectations.