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Astrazeneca vaccine hopes give investors a shot in the arm on first trading day of 2021 By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 4 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 4 January 2021 Stock markets started the new year with a bang as high hopes for Astrazeneca’s vaccine fuelled a rally on … Read more
Investors back extra runway at Gatwick as expansion would add 90 extra flights per day VINCI Airports and infrastructure fund GIP have committed to funding the next stage of a scheme to upgrade Gatwick’s ‘standby’ northern runway It would be used alongside Gatwick’s existing runway as a so-called ‘runway-lite’ By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail … Read more
After a bad year, many investors will be hoping for better luck in 2021. Will the rollout of a Covid vaccine trigger an economic recovery and a rebound in share prices, or is there more trouble to come on the stock markets? Here, three City experts give their tips for the year. Each has given … Read more
Boris Johnson: The Prime Minister has cancelled Christmas in a grim end to 2020 The grim end to this pandemic year should not cast a pall over investment hopes for 2021. Financial experts are upbeat about prospects for the UK, though the recovery might not kick in until the late spring or summer when enough … Read more
Brexit deal jolts Footsie back to life: Buoyant investors snap up shares in first trading session after Christmas By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 29 December 2020 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 29 December 2020 Shares soared in the first trading session after Christmas as Boris Johnson’s Brexit agreement sent a jolt … Read more
British academics are to create the largest ever database of investors in the slave trade that will highlight ties to modern-day firms. The Dictionary of British Slave Traders is a project supported by £1 million in government funding using research by British historians and experts. The database will feature biographies of investors covering a 250-year … Read more
AVIVA INVESTORS GLOBAL EQUITY ENDURANCE: Young fund passes its test By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 23:01 GMT, 26 December 2020 Investment fund Aviva Investors Global Equity Endurance has just ‘celebrated’ its third anniversary. And although tier 4 restrictions in the South East prevented the … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: City’s regulator Financial Conduct Authority has let down ALL investors – now heads must roll By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 22:23 GMT, 19 December 2020 Surely, it is time for the Government to launch a review into the workings of the City’s … Read more
While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on vast swathes of British business, trading firms are in the pink. Households are estimated to have built up around £100billion of extra cash in lockdown as spending on everything from travel to meals out evaporated. Many of these ‘accidental savers’ have looked for ways to put this money … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Investors shouldn’t shun the EU after Brexit, says Justin Urquhart Stewart By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 What’s Happening? Markets and investors love to focus on exciting successes. This year we have certainly had enough excitement, and … Read more