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According to KPMG’s latest CEO outlook report, 83 per cent of UK chief executives expect to see a full return to the office within three years, an increase of 19 percentage points from the prior year.

This quality stock's smart pivot into consumer services is more than offsetting slowing demand for its traditional business line ...

Leading subsea rentals and services group Ashtead Technology (AT.:624p) has raised earnings guidance and prompted brokerage Peel Hunt to nudge up its top-of-the-range 2024 pre-tax profit estimate to ...

The view at Franklin Templeton is that the application of AI across multiple sectors, as well as re-industrialisation as manufacturers move back onshore, heralds the start of a new business cycle that ...

However, Breedon still looks cheap. The supplier of cement, asphalt and aggregates trades at 11.5 times its forward earnings, well below its ten-year average of 16 times and its five-year average of ...

Enthusiasm for President Donald Trump’s first actions, or lack thereof, is waning this morning with shares in London, Paris and Frankfurt all flat or marginally in the red, after a good day yesterday.

Purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and build-to-rent (BTR) housing developer Watkin Jones (WJG: 24.4p) returned to underlying profit in the 2024 financial year, albeit £9.5mn of costs ...

Shares are priced 32 per cent below NAV even though shareholders have sanctioned an orderly realisation of its assets ...

US earnings season is upon us and, as usual, the banking sector has made the first move. Figures posted by JPMorgan Chase (US ...

Research by Numis has highlighted some 17 investment trusts that will or are expected to provide investors with some form of exit option between now and026. These include trusts that offer redemption ...