The weight-loss obsession is leaving companies with decent prospects in the shade, to the extent that investors should look away from the flashier parts of the pharmaceutical sector to find more ...

The focus is now on talks with the Mozambique government that must end in a deal for the mineral sands miner to stay in business ...

The promise of an immediate cash lump sum is an appealing prospect, and one that platforms are not shy about offering to prospective customers. But while cashback offers are not necessarily a bad ...

My column last month (‘’, IC, 16 July 2025), revisited the reasons for remaining of the view that consensus forecasts are underestimating the level of inflation going forward, and consequently ...

Peabody Energy (US:BTU) has abandoned its $3.8bn (£2.8bn) acquisition of Anglo American’s (AAL) coal assets in Australia, a move which will send the two miners into a potentially lengthy arbitration ...

This decision went terribly. Few wanted to wear heavy headsets, and when that became obvious, and TikTok started to threaten Meta’s social media business, its shares crashed. Zuckerberg then decided ...

Rachel Reeves boasted that the figures “beat expectations”, while the Conservative shadow chancellor saw them as evidence of the chancellor’s “economic vandalism”. You might expect this from ...

BHP’s full-year profits slid on weaker iron ore and coal prices, but the world’s largest miner’s shift into copper kept it in line with forecasts.

Markets are catching up with our way of thinking when it comes to interest rates, with expectations for rate cuts starting to fall and yields rising in the US and the UK. The Ukraine-Russia-Europe-US ...

With an excellent record of investing in quality growth companies, the fund bets big on the continent’s return to form ...

We all know the benefits of a diversified portfolio – but constructing one is easier said than done. Take the MSCI World Index; it has 1,300 constituents, but a handful of US companies (no prizes for ...

Technology group BATM Advanced Communications (BVC:14.25p) continues to make progress with exiting non-core activities in line with its strategy to prioritise the group’s focus on cyber security, ...