At the end of last year, Seplat Energy (SEPL) finally signed off on a $1.28bn (£955mn) deal to acquire ExxonMobil’s (US:XOM) onshore and shallow water assets in Nigeria.

Rio Tinto (RIO) fought its way to an almost flat cash profit for the first half on the back of its copper and aluminium businesses, after the all-important iron ore price dropped off. This saw the ...

The FTSE 100 tracked about a third of a per cent lower this morning amid with another stack of earnings to digest and a key three days in the US likely to set the tone. The S&P 500 slid 0.3 per cent ...

RHI Magnesita (RHIM) manufactures refractory equipment, which is utilised in high-temperature processes across a range of heavy industries. That alone tells you that it is subject to cyclical effects.

Pensions inherited from people who pass away after the age of 75 will still be subject to income tax, resulting in a tax rate of 64 per cent if you have to pay both IHT and higher-rate income tax.

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Shares yield 13 per cent, and the discount seems unfair given the value of its aircraft is higher than the market cap ...

The analysts said investors could take profits, sit on some cash and wait for valuations to fall, adding: “It also feels as though we are reaching that point in the year when markets can be prone to ...

Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson said the Tesla chief executive seeks inspiration from the French general and believes that wherever Napoleon was, that was “where his armies would do ...

At first, it was on/off tariff threats that rattled markets; today, it is the role of the Federal Reserve. Last week, in his latest salvo, Trump again said that though he would not try to fire Fed ...

Minority shareholders have continued to fight back against proposals to take the company private, with a formal complaint being made to the Takeover Panel.

The FTSE 100 has ticked up this morning after what became a wobbly session on Monday, with a stack of fresh earnings updates helping traders early on Tuesday. Entain and Games Workshop are leading ...