Friday Email: 15 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 poor week falling 151 points (1.37%). The S&P 500 is up 0.82% and the Stoxx 600 is down 0.2%. 

The past week has been much quieter as the Q2 / half yearly reporting season winds down.

The week ahead looks very quiet from a reporting perspective.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have  Cavendish (5.1%), Speedy Hire (3.7%), Heath (Samuel) & Sons (3.5%) and Investec for 3.1%.

This email was originally sent on Friday 14 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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