Friday Email: 10 August 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 about 50 points this week.
The past week has seen a large number of interim dividend increases and overall the picture remains robust as the reporting season winds down a little over the next two weeks.
Going ex-dividend this coming Thursday for yields in excess of 2% we have Evraz (5.5%), Ibstock (2.7% for the special and 1.2% for the ordinary) Standard Life Aberdeen (2.2%), Low & Bonar (2.1%) and Anglo American for 2.2%.
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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Read next: 03 August 2018
The FTSE 100 is down just over 100 points on the week. Yesterday we had a rise in interest rates and today we had RBS announcing its intention to pay its first dividend in over 10 years. In spite of the interest rate rise savers will still continue to look to equity based investments to get a decent return on their capital.