Friday Email: 03 October 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 very good week reaching new all time highs and is currently trading at 9469, up 184 points on the week(1.98%). The S&P 500 is up 1.51% and the Stoxx 600 is up 2.64%. 

The FTSE 100 is up 14.67% on the year to date. The S&P 500 is up 14.43% and the Stoxx 600 is up 11.68%.

The past week has been fairly busy from a reporting perpective. The week ahead is quiet.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Gateley (4.8%), Taylor Wimpey (4.4%) and Barratt Redrow for 3.1%

This email was originally sent on Friday 03 October 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.

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