Friday Email: 01 August 2025

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 had a down week falling 47 points (0.51%). The S&P 500 is down 0.48% and the Stoxx 600 is down 2.22%.

The past week has been very very busy from a reporting perspective. The week ahead remains busy.

This past week was the peak of the half yearly reporting season.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Speedy Hire (5.8%), Halfords (4%) and Cake box for 3.2%.

This email was originally sent on Friday 01 August 2025

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.

It’s included as part of the free DividendMax trial.