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Market focus on Thursday was once again on earnings and trading updates, with numerous UK companies warning about cost inflation, while in the US, the...

Stocks in London ended mixed on Wednesday, with heavyweight miners keeping the FTSE 100 in the green, despite warnings of slow growth from Aveva and...

Stock markets were trading solidly on Wednesday despite several new sources of concern for investors. These include Google-owner Alphabet showing it isn't invincible and Russia...

Shares were lower early Wednesday as the earnings season moved toward its peak, with lender Lloyds Banking and software firm Aveva at either end of...

Stocks in London ended broadly lower on Tuesday as a drop in US stocks caused the evaporation of earlier gains, although the FTSE 100 remained...

The first-quarter earnings season dominated investor attention on Tuesday, as big UK and European banks followed their US counterparts in releasing results, while more big...

Housebuilders were leading a positive equity market in London early Tuesday, after Taylor Wimpey issued an upbeat trading statement for its annual general meeting.

Meanwhile,...

Miners sent stocks in London into a deeply red close on Monday on fears that Covid-19 lockdowns will extend to China's capital city, as cases...

China's aggressive zero-Covid strategy was combining with the US Fed's aggressive inflation-bashing plan to send stock markets reeling on Monday.

Worries about widening lockdowns...

Covid-19 came back to scare financial markets at the start of the new week, after Beijing looked likely to join Shanghai in lockdown, prompting concerns...