Microsoft was a knock-out, with EPS at $3.46 vs $3.22 expected on the Street. Azure cloud growth was 33 per cent as well ahead of expectations, half of which was down to AI. Revenues climbed 13 per ...

Still, given this reading is a means to an end, it’s worth asking why you probably don’t this minute look like the average professional investor. Sure, without clients or colleagues, the need to ...

InterContinental is a global hotel operator that controls and either operates or franchises 20 international hotel brands, including Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Kimpton. As with other operators, it ...

Five years ago, the UK housing market saw a shift in preferences. As lockdown forced us to work (and shop, and do everything else) from home, more space started to feel like a necessity. Houses saw ...

Post-demerger, there does (thankfully) seem to be a greater focus on cash. THG expects free cash flow to be “marginally positive” this year, while the recent refinancing and £90mn equity raise also ...

The search monopoly’s legacy business is under pressure, but parent company Alphabet is innovating in other fields ...

The FTSE 100 chalked up a 12th straight day of gains yesterday, and bulls are arguably looking a little tired as we digest a slew of corporate updates this morning. The blue chips marginally in the ...

Annuity rates are linked to bond yields, which have stayed stubbornly high in 2025, regardless of base rate cuts. As of 24 April, a 65-year-old who used a £100,000 pot to buy a single-life level ...

A look at the big beasts of the S&P 500 gives a pretty clear impression of how a tech fund might have fared so far this year. All the Magnificent Seven stocks are down year to date for 2025 as at 28 ...

Others disagree. The managers of FTSE 250 investment trust Murray International (MYI) have kept their tobacco investments. Philip Morris is its largest single equity holding, at 4.5 per cent of trust ...

Richard Court Treatt, merchant of essential oils, founded Treatt in 1886 to supply raw materials for flavours and fragrances. From a modest beginning, the company evolved into a manufacturer and ...

In this sense, the index carried an echo of the screens’ goal – loosely based on a 2023 paper by Tobias Kalsbach and Steffen Windmüller of the Technical University of Munich – which seeks to find ...