The FTSE 100 index set the record of the strongest quarterly performance as investors flooded back into shares following the chaos of the financial crisis ... more
Forget the pinstripes, checks are all the rage in the City. Burberry shares shot up more than 7%, taking the fashion group to the top of the leaderboard at its new home in the FTSE 100 Index... more
With the FTSE 100 poised to break through the psychologically important 5200 barrier, the overriding issue is one of investor confidence in the rally... more
Performance pay schemes for executives were, according to the late Alastair Ross Goobey, the one-time head of pension fund manager Hermes, very much like the Caucus race in Alice in Wonderland ... more
The total size of the pension deficit of all the companies listed in the FTSE-100 Index has more than doubled to a record £300 billion since January... more
Stock market investors were feeling the strain on their return to work this morning. The absence of a lead from Wall Street, which was closed on Friday for Independence Day, and a lacklustre performance by Asian markets this morning offered City folk little in the way of inspiration ... more
Those who think we are at the start of a long bull market for shares got a further slice of evidence today, the FTSE 100 enjoying another move upwards as traders returned from the bank holiday weekend with optimism ... more
Three days is a long time in a nascent pandemic. There is every chance that the markets will re-open on Tuesday with 72 hours worth of panic-hewn news to digest... more
BT raced up the FTSE 100 winner’s board today on talk that it is planning an all-out attack on its pensions deficit by issuing a multi-billion-pound bond... more
Such has been the pace and the scale of the stock market sell-off since the start of the year that the profile of the benchmark FTSE 100 index is set for another major makeover... more
Company pensions have taken a massive hit in the recession, with billions of pounds wiped off the value of schemes to support retiring employees... more
Unilever, the world’s second-biggest supplier of consumer products, today celebrated a bumper rise in third-quarter profits with a share-price jump of 29p to 1372p... more
Time and again, the TV news treats us to a report on the FTSE 100 against a backdrop of shoppers laden with carrier bags from shops that are not in the index. The two bear no relation to each other... more
One of the City’s leading “chartists” revealed the 20% fall in the FTSE 100 this week has put it back to a level not seen since the great crash of 1987.
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Private-equity firm 3i said the slowdown in mergers and acquisitions as a result of the credit crunch meant new investment fell almost 40% in the first five months of the year... more
A surprise crackdown on speculators and the promise of a wide-reaching solution to the crisis in the US financial sector triggered an unprecedented rally among leading shares with the FTSE 100, up almost 400 points, heading for its biggest ever one-day rise... more
Markets: The rally in world stock markets petered out as oil prices continued to slide ever closer to $100, and on reports that talks about a Korean-funded bailout for troubled investment Lehman Brothers had ended... more
The economy may be slowing, stock markets falling and the outlook for company profits getting bleaker, but there is no sign yet that corporate executives are feeling the pinch... more
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