Value investing and ESG make uneasy bedfellows

UK’s FTSE 100 index edged up on Thursday, tracking an improvement in global mood, while footwear maker Dr Martens logged its worst day in over four months after warning of lower earnings for the upcoming year. The blue-chip

The United Kingdom will not, after all, be the worst-performing rich economy this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday, announcing a major revision to its previous gloomy forecast. The Washington-based organization said it now expects the UK economy

UK’s FTSE 100 opened higher on Monday, lifted by lenders and precious metal miners, but mid-cap oilfield services and engineering firm John Wood Group logged its worst day ever after Apollo Global walked away from a potential deal.

UK’s blue-chip FTSE 100 index was slightly up on Thursday, helped by gains in shares of export-oriented firms as the pound declined ahead of the Bank of England’s (BoE) monetary policy decision. The central bank is expected to

London’s blue-chip FTSE 100 edged higher on Tuesday, boosted by a jump in shares of HSBC after the lender’s quarterly profit tripled, though overall gains were limited by weakness in energy stocks. The internationally-focused FTSE 100 rose 0.3%

UK private sector firms signalled a rise in business activity for the third consecutive month during April and the rate of expansion accelerated to its fastest for a year, according to S&P Global. A further robust rise in

London’s FTSE 100 rose on Tuesday as miners and oil stocks boosted the commodity-heavy bourse, while shares of Cineworld slid as the world’s second-largest cinema chain operator filed a plan of reorganisation. The blue-chip FTSE 100 (.FTSE) rose 0.4% to

UK’s benchmark FTSE 100 rose on Wednesday after data showed the dominant service sector in March reported the strongest new business expansion in a year, although worries about a slowdown in the U.S. economy tempered the mood. The

UK equities surged on Monday, helped by a gain in bank stocks on renewed hopes that the turmoil in the sector will be contained following the buyout of Silicon Valley Bank, while Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) jumped after agreeing to sell

The FTSE 100 index has come under pressure in the wake of the multiple midsized bank failures in the US, and, not to mention, the inevitable sale of the beleaguered Credit Suisse. The index outperformed other major indices