Friday Email: 19 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 risen by 90 points (1%) this week. The Stoxx 600 has risen 1.37% and the S&P 500 is up 1.78%. Market indices continue to hit record highs in spite of macro economic headwinds and Geopolitics.
The past week has been fairly busy as the reporting season tails off. The week ahead is very quiet as the summer lull in reporting begins. In spite of this, markets will be very interesting given the uncertainty that is out there.
Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2% from the single dividend we have Heath(Samuel) & Sons (2.6%), Legal & General (2.3%) and Sabre Insurance for 2.3%.
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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