Friday Email: 21 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 31 points (0.29%) on the week. The S&P 500 is down 2.12% and the Stoxx 600 is down 0.9%.

The past week has been very quiet on the reporting front and next week will also be very quiet.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 3% from the single dividend we have Zigup (3.9%) and Northern Bear for 3.8%.

 

This email was originally sent on Friday 21 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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