When Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) reported their March-quarterEarningswithin forty-eight hours of each other in late April 2026, the headline figures looked, at first glance, like reasons to celebrate. Meta beatRevenueexpectations on the strength of itsAdvertisingmachine. Microsoft posted another quarter of …
The thesis is seductive.Bitcoin, the argument goes, is finally behaving like the "digital gold" its evangelists have long promised. Gold itself is at record highs, the dollar is wobbly, and central banks are again whispering about cutting rates. SpotBitcoinETFs from BlackRock, Fidelity and ARK …
There is a certain irony in pairing the words "Trump" and "Green New Deal". The 47th President spent the better part of a decade deriding the original Green New Deal as a "socialist fantasy", and his second-term agenda — codified in a flurry of …
The answer, in short, is that the dependency runs deeper and wider than many UK portfolio holders appreciate. From the petrochemical clusters of the Rhine to the offshore wind farms of the North Sea, from Italian household electricity bills to the nascent gigafactories of …
Based on recent trading data around 26 April to 3 May 2026, the share price has moved from approximately 35p to approximately 42p, a one-week gain of roughly 20%. Put into pounds and pence, an investor who deployed £1,000 into AML one week ago …
That patience appears, finally, to be running out. After a brutal Q1 2026 reporting season in which both Meta and Microsoft once again raisedCapital-expenditure/">CapitalExpenditureguidance, the market mood has shifted from cheerleading to outright scepticism. Meta shares have shed close to a fifth of their …
This article is not about why the war is happening — that ground has been covered elsewhere. It is about whether the chart, theDerivativescomplex and the on-chain data actually support a sustained breakout, or whether the quantitative evidence points to a fade. The honest …
The companies' first-quarter 2026 results, both released this week, were dragged down by sizeable hedging losses on crude positions taken when forward prices were lower, but each maintained itsDividendand confirmed that buyback programmes will continue at the pace previously mapped out for shareholders. Refineries …
iPhoneRevenuerose 22 per cent year on year to $57.99bn, a March-quarter record. ServicesRevenuehit a fresh all-time high, breaking through the $31bn mark and outpacing the combined revenues of the Mac, iPad and wearables divisions for the quarter. The company's board authorised an additional $100bn …
A modest gain that masks a notable rebuildAdmiral Group has spent much of the past year slowly rebuilding investor confidence after a turbulent stretch for UK motor insurance. The shares closed up around 4.21% over theTrailing Twelve Monthsto 1 May 2026, putting them well …