If you’re trying to figure out what could move UK stocks this week, here’s the short version: it’s a week of two halves. The first half belongs to company earnings, with five UK-listed businesses reporting results on a single day. The second half belongs to a US jobs report that, despite being an American data … Read more
This week’s UK stock market story isn’t really about earnings — it’s about one number. Wednesday’s UK inflation report (CPI) for July is the single most important event on the calendar, and it lands during a week when the corporate reporting slate is lighter than usual. That combination matters: with fewer competing headlines, Wednesday’s data … Read more
The FTSE 100 is trading near record highs. That sentence alone might make you think this is a quiet week. It isn’t. UK markets head into August 10–14 sitting at the intersection of a genuinely strong run and a genuinely unsettled macro backdrop, with a hawkish new Federal Reserve chair pushing against a surprisingly weak … Read more
If you’ve been waiting for a quiet week in UK markets, this isn’t it. Roughly two dozen companies on the London Stock Exchange report results between Monday and Friday this week, and there’s no Bank of England meeting to distract from them — the next one isn’t until September 17. That makes this one of … Read more
If you only remember one thing about UK markets this week, make it this: the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are both deciding on interest rates within a day of each other, and that decision lands right in the middle of the busiest single day of FTSE 100 earnings so far in 2026. … Read more
If you check the FTSE 100 this week and see it sitting near an all-time high, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a quiet week for UK stocks. It isn’t. On Thursday, July 9, 2026, nominations formally open for a new leader of the Labour Party — and, by extension, a new Prime Minister — … Read more