At the height of the dotcom boom, telecommunications groups tore up roads and fields to lay fibre-optic cable across continents, convinced that the internet age would need vast amounts of bandwidth.

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Prices for agricultural goods, like so much else, tend to be self-correcting, at least over the long run. Supply and demand ...

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Enter BlackRock American Income Trust (BRAI), which invests in US stocks with a value tilt. This investment trust offers a ...

As hopes of a peace deal wax and wane, energy price pressures are back in focus. The latest UK CPI inflation figure came in at 2.6 per cent, undershooting both analyst expectations and Bank of England ...

Aviva’s (AV.) operating profit surged 24 per cent in the first half to a better than expected £1.3bn, as the FTSE 100 group’s general insurance business was boosted by the integration of Direct Line.

Britain might be in drought and sweltering under heatwave conditions but Net Zero policy remains controversial. While the effects of man-made climate change are uncomfortably apparent, it is still ...

Oil rallied, and stocks dipped amid uncertainty over a fresh US-Iran conflict after US President Donald Trump demanded Tehran ...

Investors have shown signs of rotating away from semiconductor stocks, the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom so far, as ...

BP’s (BP) announcement last month that it plans to pull out of the North Sea after six decades in the basin provides another excuse, not that one is needed, to muse about the UK and Norway’s divergent ...