Friday Email: 09 January 2026
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 made a good start to the new year and is up 113 points (1.14%). The Stoxx 600 is up 1.94% and the S&P 500 is up 0.63%.
The past week has been quiet from a regulatory reporting perspective. Trading updates have been coming in from the retailers with Tesco yesterday and Sainsbury this morning. Also Next and Marks & Spencer provided updates.
The week ahead is also quiet with interim results from Games Workshop being the highlight of a thin calendar.
Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2% from the single dividend we have Premier Miton (5.7%), RWS Holdings (5.3%), Future Plc (3.2%) Grainger (2.8%), Next (2.6%, special) and AJ Bell 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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