Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Centrica focuses on investment: Lower energy prices weighed on Centrica’s full-year earnings for 2025, which fell 40% from a year earlier, says Rachel Millard in the Financial Times. The owner of Brit

The world economy is beset by doom and gloom, but the beauty industry continues to boom. Global beauty retail sales hit $441bn in 2024, with the sector expanding 7% annually from 2022 to 2024, accordi

Issue of the week: the return of tariff ...

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti