Friday Email: 18 July 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 90 points on the week (0.86%).The S&P 500 is down 0.18% and the Stoxx 600 is up 0.1%.
The past week has been quiet from a reporting perspective and things start to pick up next week as we move into the half yearly reporting season. The U.S Q2 reporting season is also under way with plenty of dividend declarations this week.
Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Castings (4.2%) and Pennon Group for 4.1%.
Here is an article written by one of our analysts:
https://optionmetrics.com/blog/forecasting-dividends-in-crises/
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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