Market closing: Equity indices buckled under selling pressure for the third straight session on Thursday as risk appetite remained subdued amid a bearish trend overseas.
2 Share price total return (including dividends reinvested) 3 AIC UK All Companies 4 FTSE All-Share Index 5 Calculated based on the NAV per share and share price at year end 6 Ongoing charge excludes performance fee. Ongoing charge including performance fee is 0.88% (2019: 0.91%) as no performance fee was paid during the year 7 This represents three interim dividends of 6.5p each and a proposed final dividend of 7.5p which will be put to shareholders for approval at the Annual General Meeting on 11 March 2021. See the Annual Report for more details 8 Based on the share price at the year end
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It has been a very difficult year for UK equities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown caused a rapid fall in UK economic activity, and the impact on corporate profitability produced widespread cuts in dividend payments. In this meltdown the returns from the Company s investment po
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. corporate results and profit outlooks are becoming increasingly important in sustaining investor optimism in a stock market rally that has driven valuations close to a 20-year high.
FILE PHOTO: A trader walks past a digital stock price display outside the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 26, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar
With fourth-quarter reports starting to pour in, the benchmark S&P 500 is trading at 22.6 times earnings estimates for the next 12 months, according to Refinitiv Datastream. That price-to-earnings multiple (P/E) a common benchmark for valuing stocks is well above the 15.3 long-term average and has been climbing since the market bottomed in March.