Friday Email: 16 March 2018

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

The FTSE 100 has fallen about 80 points this week as the market remains jittery. There were plenty of double digit dividend increases declared this week including Clarkson (12%), John Menzies (11%), Antofagasta (177%), Fevertree (70.4%), Brooks Macdonald (13.3%), EMIS (10%), Morrisons (12.2% plus special), Burford Capital (20%), Marshalls (17.5% plus special), Onesavings Bank (22%), Cineworld (14.5%) and Spirax-Sarco with 16%.

The week ahead continues to be busy albeit at a slightly slower pace than last week. Going ex-dividend on Thursday with single payouts of 2% or more we have Centamin (4.7%), Low & Bonar (3.3%), Phoenix Group (3.2%), Onesavings Bank (2.4%), Randgold (2.4%), Meggitt (2.4%), Schroders (2.3%), Keir (2.2%) and Fidelity European Values with 2%.

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 16 March 2018

The Friday email is delivered to over 20,000 subscriber’s every week, and remains a widely read run-down of recent events and what investors can expect in the week ahead written by our chief analyst Mark Riding.

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