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HSBC's earnings delivered a number that the market had not fully priced: credit impairments rising $400 million to $1.3 billion in a single…

British American Tobacco took a £25 billion impairment charge this week — primarily against its US cigarette brands — and the share price…

EasyJet's board called Castlelake's approach "highly opportunistic" — and that word choice matters more than the defensive posture it…

The Bank of England voted 8-1 to keep rates at 3.75% this week, but the language around that decision is doing more work than the number…

Diageo shares have climbed 12% in a single month, recovering to prices last seen in 2012, yet the company's own chief executive refused to…

The Ofgem announcement this morning placed a number on something the market had been pricing in fragments for weeks: household energy bills…

The UK services sector contracted in May for the first time since April last year. The purchasing managers' index came in at 49.3, below…

Alphabet's stock fell on Tuesday even as the company announced the largest equity raise in its history. The share price dropped roughly 2.6…

On the first trading day of June, the FTSE 100 fell 0.6% and the FTSE 250 dropped 1.2%, but the story underneath the index was more divided…

The Bank of England held its benchmark rate at 3.75% on Thursday. The vote was 8-1. Chief Economist Huw Pill stood alone in calling for a…

A million young people in Britain are not working, not studying, and not in training. That figure is not a projection — the Office for…

Pets at Home cut its annual dividend by 43 per cent on 27 May — from 13 pence per share down to 7.4 pence. Pre-tax profit fell 28 per cent…

Start with what is confirmed, because the confirmed facts are alarming enough without embellishment.

BP has now removed three chairmen in three years. The first was Helge Lund, pushed out ten months ago over concerns about his ability to…

Nvidia's RTX Spark announcement at Computex 2026 sent shockwaves through the PC industry. But the name that moved most on Monday was not…

EasyJet closed Friday at 398 pence. That is a 31% decline over one year and more than half its value lost over five years. By every…

Barclays shares are trading at roughly 453p.

Five years ago, Rolls-Royce was a company in crisis. A pandemic had grounded the planes it depends on. Its balance sheet was stretched. Few…