Friday Email: 08 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 is up 58 points on the week (0.54%). The S&P 500 is up 3.32% and the Stoxx 600 is up 0.54%

The past week has been very busy from a reporting perspective. The dividend picture is generally strong although there are more companies holding their dividends at last years level than usual.

The week ahead is also busy albeit at a reduced level compared to the past two weeks.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2.5% from the single dividend we have Cake Box (3.5%), Conduit (3%) and Aberdeen Group for 2.9%.

 

 

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 07 August 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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