Legal & General Shares Slip Despite Double-Digit Earnings Growth in H1 2026
Legal & General (LON: LGEN) shares have declined in early trading on Wednesday, down around 1% to 299.6p, even after the insurer and asset manager posted an 11%…
Legal & General (LON: LGEN) shares have declined in early trading on Wednesday, down around 1% to 299.6p, even after the insurer and asset manager posted an 11%…
The Glencore share price has risen over 5% on Wednesday morning, touching 579.7p, after the FTSE 100 miner and commodities trader reported a sharp jump in first-half profits…
Shares in Travis Perkins (LON: TPK) jumped sharply on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, after the builders’ merchant reported first-half results that showed early but tangible signs of a…
BP (LON: BP.), the London-listed oil and gas major, said second-quarter underlying replacement cost profit more than doubled to $5.7bn, beating analyst forecasts, as new chief executive Meg…
Shares in HSBC Holdings (LON: HSBA) opened lower on Tuesday, even as the banking giant posted a sharp rise in first-half profit and announced a new share buyback.…
Filtronic (AIM: FTC) shares dropped at the open on Tuesday, currently down close to 11% after the RF technology group’s full-year results revealed a sharp drop in profitability,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
TabTrade, a multi-asset forex and CFD broker, has been granted an Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding Underwriting) Licence for its Mauritius entity, TabTrade (Mauritius) Ltd, by the…
Shares in Rentokil Initial (LON: RTO) crashed as much as 16.6% on Thursday, sliding to around 369.6p from Wednesday’s close of 443.3p. The sell-off came despite the FTSE…
Hargreaves Lansdown told investors in a note on Wednesday that there could be upside in Aston Martin Lagonda (LON: AML) shares if management delivers its promised improvements this…
Lloyds Banking Group (LON: LLOY), the UK’s largest retail and commercial bank, reported first-half statutory pre-tax profit of £4.3bn, up from £3.5bn a year earlier, beating forecasts. Shares…
Shares of Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) cratered on Wednesday, plunging around 22.5% to around $48.15, as investors reacted harshly to the digital insurer’s second-quarter results and disappointing outlook. The…
Reckitt Benckiser (LON: RKT) shares have risen sharply on Wednesday, climbing around 4.9% to 5,430p, after the consumer health and hygiene giant reported an acceleration in second-quarter growth…
Shares in Greggs (LON: GRG) have surged as much as 11% on Wednesday, hitting a high of 1,890p after the bakery chain reported stronger-than-expected interim results and reaffirmed…
The FTSE 100 closed within touching distance of uncharted territory on Tuesday, finishing at 10,871.02 points after a 0.8% gain, leaving London’s blue-chip index just shy of the…
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