After a mid-week rally for stocks, Thursday’s session saw a bucket of cold water poured over markets in Europe, Asia and the US. The war rumbled on, new inflation figures… The post FTSE ends the week on a brighter note appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
New figures released today by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that total asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) grew in January 2022 by 11% compared… The post Asset finance market grew by 11% in January 2022 appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
Like a slimming club member celebrating reaching their goals, newly streamlined Prudential has marked its first set of numbers since offloading both its UK and US businesses by beating expectations. While the… The post Slimmed down Prudential impresses investors appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
Disturbing footage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the weekend and the former’s decision to put its nuclear forces on high alert has served to spook investors once again, with… The post Russian companies sink on London market appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
It’s been quite a week for the markets with a shock from US inflation growing faster than expected, and now we’ve got confirmation that Omicron tripped up the UK economy… The post Market volatility creeps up appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
After a few decent days on the market, equities hit a stumbling block on Thursday with most of the major indices across Europe and Asia easing back. One of the… The post Markets stumble despite Shell success appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
Gold is trying once more to break through, and away from, the $1,800 an ounce mark but it is making heavy work of it and sceptics could be forgiven for… The post Why is gold not doing better when everything seems set up for it to shine? appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
There is an old stock market saying that ‘so goes January, so goes the year,’ so the tentative start to 2022 may have some investors wondering quite what may be… The post So goes January, so goes the year? Well, the FTSE All-Share was down in January …. appeared first on London Business News |…
The FTSE 100 bounced back sharply on Wednesday, bucking the negative trend set in the US last night and some mixed trading in Asia. With today’s US Federal Reserve meeting… The post FTSE up despite more US selling overnight as Fed meeting looms appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
Highly unusual movements on the US stock market yesterday are difficult to explain. While it is easy to say that the S&P 500 going from a 4% decline to a… The post Markets fight back despite omnipresent headwinds appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
