Shares and the stockmarket

Despite the Bank of England predicting inflation would fall to near zero this year as a result of Covid-19, the rate has leapt this summer...

A plunge in profits at its coal and petroleum divisions have prompted miner BHP to cut its second-half dividend by 30%, although income-seekers will...

Investors need to be a bit wary of piling into so-called recession-proof stocks for two reasons.

First, as the economist Joseph Stiglitz once noted, ‘the...

Another dividend hike, which adds to a formidable run of increases that runs back well over 20 years, suggests that Derwent London has every...

Who on earth would want to be a bank in the current environment? Banks are the fourth-worst performing sector in the FTSE All-Share this year...

Gold’s potential as an investment arouses strong emotions. Some investors love it as a potential hedge against inflation, some against deflation and some against unforeseeable...

More than a quarter of young people have been spooked by this year’s market falls and put off investing altogether, our research shows*. The market...

In the past three months the Government has borrowed more than double its entire borrowing for last year, with June marking the third highest month...

After a surge in cryptocurrency buying in the past year, the Government has decided to take action and proposed that the FCA be given powers...