Friday Email: 16 May 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 up 79 points on the week (0.78%). The S&P 500 is up 1.88% and the Stoxx 600 is down 0.12%.
The past week has been fairly busy from a reporting perspective.
The U.K. stock market now faces additional uncertainty with the political situation as well as the uncertainty in the Middle East.
Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2.5% from the single dividend we have Bluefield Solar Income (2.8%), Andrew Sykes Group (2.7%), The Renewables Infrastruture Group (2.7%) and Whitbread for 2.6%.
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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