Friday Email: 01 August 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 had a very good week and has risen 242 points (2.26%) and has touched all time highs this week. The S&P 500 is up 0.42% and the Stoxx 600 is up 1.47%.

The past week has been very busy with a large number of companies reporting and declaring their dividends. Next week is also very busy.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2% from the single dividend we have BT Group (2.9%), Jupiter Fund Management (2.3%) amd CML Microsystems for 2.2%

This email was originally sent on Friday 31 July 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.

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