Raspberry Pi has held up the FTSE 250 on the first trading day after Christmas, with its stock price surging as much as 18 per cent today, pushing it to become a £1bn company. The Cambridge-based tech firm’s share price had been languishing just below £4 since the firm floated on the London Stock Exchange [...]
From the metaverse to meme stocks, investment fads have come and gone over the years, quickly disappearing out of the market’s collective memories. While AI might be the latest trend gripping the attention of stockpickers, it is worth remembering previous crazes in the market, to learn from (and laugh at) the mistakes of previous cycles. [...]
Thames Water has urged the High Court to accept its £3bn restructuring plan in a bid to avoid renationalisation. The company said today that over 75 per cent of creditors have backed the restructuring, and cited a new report claiming that no creditors will be worse off as a result of the plan. In October, [...]
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Nigel Farage of “fakery” over Reform UK membership numbers, after his party claimed they had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members. Mrs Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”, but Mr Farage said he would “gladly invite” a firm to “audit our membership numbers” as long [...]