Friday Email: 11 March 2016

Every Friday morning our lead analyst Mark Riding sends out his weekly run-down and upcoming events in the investor calendar, like this one:

Another busy week as the reporting season continues to unfold. The market initially seemed happy with what the ECB did on Thursday, but then turned down shortly after. The markets were saying 'do something' and when the ECB did it and more, it rose initially and then fell quite sharply. Now, this morning it is back up again. Volatile stuff. Over the past five days, the FTSE 100 is down about 50 points.

The past week saw some good dividend increases from 32Red (21.4%), Cineworld, (28.7%), Foxtons (13.4%), Grafton Group (16%), 4imprint (30%), Restaurant Group (13%), Lookers (10%), Marshalls (19%), Computacenter (12.6%) and Savills (13%)

The week ahead is much quieter than previous weeks as the reporting season dies down somewhat. We would expect Legal & General to continue with its recent excellent track record of dividend increases. They report on Tuesday.

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 11 March 2016

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