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Global dividend payouts hit a first-quarter record of $339.2 billion in the first three months of the year, according to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend index. UK dividend growth, however, was “relatively pedestrian”, says Andrew Jones of Janus Henderson.  Dividends rose 2.4% on an underlying basis to $15.3 billion. Ordinary (ie, not special, one-off payments) […]

“Global growth is tepid, but commodity prices remain high,” say Carlos Arteta, Philip Kenworthy and Ayhan Kose in a World Bank blog. Energy, food and base metals prices are predicted to stay close to 40% above 2015-2019 levels over the coming year. Why?  For one thing, oil supplies are tight. As of late June, members

New Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has entered Downing Street with plenty of policies that could affect homeowners, first-time buyers and landlords. Labour has come to power with a landslide majority at a time when interest rates remain high, stifling house price growth and property sales. Delivering his first speech outside Number 10 after Labour\’s

The U.S. economy added another solid round of new-job gains last month, data indicated Friday, with overall wages easing modestly and adding to recent signals of cooling inflation pressures.  The Labor Department\’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said that a net 206,000 new jobs were created in June, down from the downwardly revised total of 218,000

Planning on selling your business in the next few years? You might have to pay more tax on the proceeds than expected. The new government could very well decide capital gains tax (CGT) is a good way to raise revenues, given those commitments not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT.  This isn’t a

Margot Robbie “defines any attempts at lazy categorisation”, says Roisin Kelly in The Times. “Blonde Aussie bombshell and global pin-up? Yes, of course. But she has also become a mogul”: a producer, investor and, as of last month, “now a liquor baron too” – she has started her own gin brand, Papa Salt.  Robbie, 34,

Sir Keir Starmer has become the UK’s newest Prime Minister, after a landslide Labour victory in the 2024 general election.  The party has secured 412 seats and 34% of the national vote so far, with two constituencies still to declare. That gives Labour an 86-seat majority – not quite as large as some polling experts

The home improvement retail industry is facing many of the same economic problems that other industries, such as furniture, home appliance, and consumer electronics retailers, as well as real estate sales, are suffering from. In a word: higher interest rates, price inflation and declining sales. The real estate market has wrestled with rising interest rates