Victoria Scholar is head of investment at interactive investor and writes a fortnightly notebook for City A.M. In a surprise announcement, Britain’s largest homebuilder Barratt Developments has offered to buy…
The boss of Unilever has said its performance remains “disappointing” as it posted an underwhelming trading update. This morning, the Dove Soap and Ben & Jerry’s maker said turnover reached…
Caving into romanticised notions of the ancient farmers’ ways of old won’t give us the modern, climate-friendly agriculture we so desperately need, writes Lucy Kenningham It’s a hard graft. In…
Renewable energy producer SSE PLC has said the bad weather that hampered its wind farms’ power generation last year could delay the completion of the major Dogger Bank A wind farm.…
Prices fell at their steepest rate since 2009 in China as the world’s second-largest economy continues to grapple with the threat of deflation. In January, the consumer price index fell…
British American Tobacco has today reported a £15.7bn loss for its financial year ended 31 December after it recorded a £27.3bn on the value of its US business. The company…
THE restaurant group behind Gaucho and M consolidated a bumper post-pandemic year in 2022 with further double digit profit growth in 2023, City A.M. can reveal. Rare Restaurants saw like-for-like…
Luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland is continuing to feel the pinch from rich shoppers scaling back and the damage wrought by the so-called ‘tourist tax’. In an update this morning,…
Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton have received a Ryder Cup boost ahead of the second LIV Golf event of the season this weekend in Las Vegas. Rahm and Hatton combined…
Astrazeneca, the biggest company listed on London Stock Exchange, has continued its impressive coronavirus recovery with a six per cent increase in revenue for 2023. The Anglo-Swedish giant based in…