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

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Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Here’s a “market paradox”, says Craig Mellow in Barron’s. The more the US government “trash talks Europe, the better it is for the euro”. The single currency has gained 13% against the greenback since

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