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Simon Gergel: I’m excited worst might be over for UK

Contrarian value fund manager of Citywire award-winner Merchants Trust says UK stock market is ‘fascinating’ because it is cheap and could do well when there’s certainty over inflation and interest rates.

FTSE, pound, gilts slip further after Hunt’s austere Budget

Update: Immediate market reaction to the chancellor’s attempt to balance the country’s finances is cool. Windfall taxes rattle some oil explorers and renewable funds.

FTSE, pound, gilts slip further after Hunt’s first Budget

Immediate market reaction to the chancellor’s attempt to balance the country’s finances is cool. Windfall taxes rattle some oil explorers and renewable funds.

Civitas bucks property slump as Reits focus on leases

Social housing investor Civitas reported an increase in its third-quarter valuation, while Regional and Picton Property Income real estate investment trusts stress the positives in their updates.

FTSE, pound and gilts slip ahead of Hunt’s first Budget

Update: UK assets fall as investors respond to overnight stock market falls in the US and Asia and brace themselves for an austere Autumn Statement from the chancellor.

Fidelity Special Values cuts inflation-hit consumer stocks

Fidelity Special Values fund manager Alex Wright has pared back consumer stocks after they weighed heavily on the £914m investment trust, causing it to underperform in his tenth year in charge.

FTSE slips as Target warning, high inflation take their toll

FTSE 100 gives up its early gains for a second day after Wall Street takes fright at gloomy update and forecast from US retailer Target. UK inflation of 11.1% hits mid-cap stocks.

AVI Global’s Bauernfreund puts bombed-out private equity trusts in his basket

Joe Bauernfreund, Asset Value Investors chief executive and investment company bargain hunter, has piled into private equity and venture capital funds trading on ultra-cheap prices

Ollie Beckett: The world’s changed but there’s a load of great stocks in Europe

Ollie Beckett, manager of the Citywire award-winning European Smaller Companies Trust, is not discouraged by the prospect of recession after a tough year on the Continent.

FTSE gains as Ukraine escalation fears recede but mid-caps hit by 11.1% inflation

FTSE 100 edges higher as US president Joe Biden says yesterday's deadly missile strike on Poland was likely a stray fired by Ukraine. Inflation surges to 41-year high piling pressure on 'mid-cap' domestic stocks.

Oakely Capital: Our megatrends will beat the recession

Stephen Tredget of Oakley Capital Investments explains why wide share price discounts on private equity funds like his are unjustified.

Oakley Capital: Our megatrends will beat the recession

Stephen Tredget of Oakley Capital Investments explains why wide share price discounts on private equity funds like his are unjustified.