At times when interest rates do fall to zero, ‘orthodox’ monetary policy runs out of road. This leaves central bankers rooting around for new tools.

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Stoke-on-Trent-based Portmeirion (PMP:133.5p), a leading UK ceramics manufacturer and retailer, has reported a resilient first-half trading performance given challenges in its North American business.

The first half of 2025 has done plenty to challenge investment assumptions, especially when it comes to the supremacy of US assets. But some investment calls have played out well, including many of ...

Shares in leading subsea rentals and services group Ashtead Technology (AT.:355p) fell 21 per cent on news that pro forma revenue declined 6 per cent in the first half and full-year revenue is likely ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut interest rates at each of its past eight meetings, but its cutting cycle is likely to come to an end next week. Eurozone inflation now sits precisely at the ...

Trading updates: Compass (CPG), Kier (KIE), Luceco (LUCE) Finals: TheWorks.co.uk (WRKS) AGMs: Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust (AWEM), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Edinburgh Investment Trust ...

Our reader has prioritised pensions over Isas and says he has lucked himself to £1mn. But is his strategy actually working ...

WPP has much less financial firepower to pursue mega-deals. It had a respectable £738mn in adjusted free cash flow at the period end, providing healthy cover for dividends and buybacks. The company ...

Chief executive Kris Licht said the sale simplifies Reckitt’s business and allows it to concentrate on its portfolio of 11 “high-growth, high-margin” brands, such as Dettol, Gaviscon, Nurofen and ...

Bottom of the pile were the energy and automobiles and parts sectors, the former affected by lower prices and the latter clearly dragged down by both tariff uncertainty and, in the case of Tesla ...

With a wealth tax potentially in the offing, along with the abolition of the current tax treatment for UK-resident ...