Friday Email: 27 July 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 is up slightly on the week and is currently trading at 7695.

The past week was very busy and there were plenty of good dividend increases declared including Jupiter Fund Management (16%), Rightmove (14%), Inchcape (13%), Smith & Nephew (13.8%), Renishaw (15%), Huntsworth (27%), IG Group (34%), Unite (30%) and Fevertree drinks with a 40% increase.

The week ahead remains extremely busy as the reporting season continues. Going ex-dividend this Thursday with a payout of over 3% from the single dividend we have Greene King (4.7%), Micro Focus International (3.3%) and CMC Markets with 3.1%.

This email was originally sent on Friday 27 July 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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