Friday Email: 18 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 poor week falling 138 points (1.46%). The S&P 500 has fallen 1.6% and the Stoxx 600 has fallen 0.3%.

The past week has been very quiet in the U.K. from a reporting perspective. The U.S. has been busy with Q3 earnings and dividend declarations.

Going ex dvidend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Paypoint with a 6.9% special dividend, FDM (4.5%) and Serica Energy for 3.4%.

This email was originally sent on Friday 17 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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