Friday Email: 18 April 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 is down 29 points (0.27%) on the week. The S&P 500 is up 2.95% and the Stoxx 600 is up 0.73%.

The past week has been quiet from a reporting perspective. The week ahead is also quiet.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Legal & General (5.9%), Sabre Insurance (5.4%), Airea (4.5%), Twenty Four Income Fund (4.3%), Stelrad (3.7%), Wickes Group (3.3%) and Derwent London for 3.2%.

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 17 April 2026

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.