?brbrbrbrAI and technology shares rose early this week after Anthropic released its IPO prospectus. The filing showed that the Claude chatbot maker generated more than $16 billion in revenue during the first half, a fig...
?brbrbrbrChancellor John Healey's first Autumn Budget centred on the pressure of rising living costs.brbrHis 28 October speech and the accompanying Budget document included measures aimed at households facing higher...
Self-employed? A SIPP could still be worth consideringbrbrbrbrFigures from the Pensions Commission - set up by the government to examine retirement planning among the UK population - show that only 4% of people who are ...
Since then, conditions have changed. Gold slipped below $4,000/oz in June and July as rising oil prices stoked fears about inflation. Investors moved away from expecting more Federal Reserve rate cuts and began considering poss...
?brbrbrbrNew analysis found that more than a third of homes on the market sit in postcode areas where prices are falling.brbrZoopla attributed the pressure to two factors: an unusually large supply of properties and...
More people are living on their own. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that 8.6 million people in the UK did so in 2025, compared with 7.7 million in 2015. Single-person households made up 29.5% of all households ...
Investors hunting for emerging-market opportunities should cast their eyes beyond Asia's better-known names, including Taiwan, China, and South Korea.brbrAdnan El-Araby, lead manager of the Barings Emerging EMEA Opportuniti...
The British firm is joining London's junior market, AIM. That is welcome news at a time when the London stock market has spent much of the past decade contracting. British companies have gone private, while others have been dra...
?brbr?brbrSeoul's housing market has climbed even as property markets elsewhere have largely stalled. Real house prices in the South Korean capital rose by more than 10% over the past year, according to the 2026 UBS Glo...
Utilities and infrastructure have gained new long-term growth drivers over the past few years. Launched just ten years ago, the Ecofin Global Utilities & Infrastructure Trust (LSE: EGL) offers exposure to those trends, along wi...