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Investment bankers are keen to engineer a merger between BP and Shell to create a “national champion [to] compete with international rivals such as France’s TotalEnergies and US giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron”, says Mark Shapland in The Mail. The […]

More bad news for drinks giant Diageo, says Jessica Newman in The Times. It has announced that the spectre of US tariffs and uncertainty in many of its markets had forced it to jettison a longstanding revenue growth target. Since

The £3.6 billion, 370p a share takeover of International Distribution Services (IDS), the owner of Royal Mail, by a company owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has passed a review prompted by concern over national security, says Jasper Jolly in

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death… it’s much more serious than that.” So quipped legendary football manager Bill Shankly. What he said may be more true now then ever. Sports is now big business –

This was a good year for markets, with the FTSE and S&P 500 rising by 10% and 30% respectively. Similarly, while I suffered some reversals this year, it was generally a profitable 2024. Tips carried forward I began the year

Shares in UnitedHealth slumped by 10% following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson on 4 December. Many people were “indifferent” to the assassination, with the group’s business practices in the spotlight instead. Some lambasted the group for “placing

Nothing embodies the spirit of a traditional English Christmas more than a winter break in the countryside at a luxury coaching inn amid the picturesque Derbyshire countryside. “You can still see the groove in the steps worn by generations of

Warren Buffett is one of the legends of investing. His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, has outperformed the US stock market by an average of 10% a year over the last eight decades. However, as Buffett himself has pointed out on

Shares in big vaccine producers have slumped since Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, says The New York Times. Kennedy, known for his “divisive” views on public health, including

American small caps (firms with market capitalisations of up to $2 billion, although some would include companies worth as much as $10 billon) have traditionally been seen as the best place for investors seeking high long-term returns. They have outperformed