Mining stocks played their part in the FTSE 100 acceleration after the US dollar weakened to help lift the price of gold by 3% to more than $4,000 an ounce and silver by 5% to $52 an ounce.

Begun in 1856, Smith & Nephew today operates in more than 100 countries. Orthopaedics generated most sales in 2025 at 40%.

Beyond Databricks, SpaceX and another 2026 IPO story, the Italian company Bending Spoons SpA (NASDAQ:BSP), the fund’s top 10 ...

Experts at eyeQ use AI and their own smart machine to analyse macro conditions and generate actionable trading signals.

French equities have unsurprisingly been in the doldrums in the past couple of months prompted by the riots in Paris and ...

Dave Baxter: The trust’s report mentions this idea of underestimating the scale and market impact of the AI boom, but it also warns of market exuberance. When it comes to the AI trade turning ...

The excessive summer heat was another headwind which resulted in lower store sales. Even so, adjusted operating profit (AOP) ...

Oil’s latest rise saw Brent crude close the month at $117 a barrel for a year-to-date rise of 93% and 13.6% in the month, ...

US markets have never been so expensive heading into the midterms, with the Financial Times reporting that the S&P 500’s ...

Sales of services including Apple Music rose 10% year-over-year to $31.6 billion, an all-time high, with annual sales of $123 ...

The gold ETC lost around 7% in October, with the silver fund down by a more painful 18.2%. The silver fund is off by 30% over six months, and as the table shows, that appears to have wiped out the ...

FirstGroup’s five-year chart has been in a volatile uptrend as the market deciphers headwinds such as a Labour government ...