Smithson Investment Trust PLC - Hires Mike Balfour as non-executive chair, effective immediately. Balfour is currently chair of investment trusts Fidelity China Special Situations PLC and abrdn ...

Shares in Microlise rose 23% to 113.00 pence on Tuesday afternoon in London.

Revenue for the six months to December 31 is estimated at GBP42.4 million, compared to GBP38.7 million the year prior. This represents a 10% rise in constant currency and 9% rise on a reported basis, ...

The emergence of DeepSeek hit US tech hard on Monday, but the sell-offs spread to power stocks too. Constellation Energy and GE Vernova fell 21% and 22%. The pair are 4.0% and 2.7% higher in ...

The CMA said the inquiry provisionally found that customers face a limited choice of cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp each having a share of up to 40% of UK spending on ...

S4 Capital said it expects net revenue for 2024 to be "slightly above" the current market consensus at GBP746 million, which would represent a 16% decline from GBP873.2 million last year. The firm ...

(Alliance News) - HSBC Holdings PLC is to shut down parts of its investment banking operations in the UK, Europe and the Americas as bosses continue their overhaul of the banking firm. Georges ...

(Alliance News) - London Finance & Investment Group PLC said on Tuesday it is working to return capital to its shareholders "as expeditiously as possible". The London-based investment finance and ...

Looking ahead, Henry Boot anticipates slower growth in volumes across the group in 2025 but expects profit for the year to remain in line with 2024 levels.

For the whole of financial 2025, which ends in late March, Halfords now expects between GBP32 million and GBP37 million in underlying pretax profit. Previously, in its half-year results, it said it ...

Uniphar said it is well positioned to deliver organic gross profit growth across all divisions. Consistent with the group's medium-term targets, it predicts double digit organic gross profit growth in ...

(Alliance News) - The Irish economy contracted slightly in the final quarter of 2024, preliminary data from Ireland's Central Statistics Office showed on Tuesday, though it grew from a year before.