(ShareCast News) - The share price drops in Britain´s challenger banks following the Brexit referendum looked overdone, the Financial Times´s Lex column argued. Over the two weeks after the vote shares in Aldermore, OneSavings, Shawbrook and Paragon gave back between 12% and 40% of their market capi
Read more(ShareCast News) - The FTSE 250 continued to rally on Thursday alongside its blue chip sibling as a broad-based rebound across sectors outweighed continued softness for housing-related stocks after the Brexit vote. Half an hour before the close, the FTSE 250 was up 0.65% to 16,106.31. Some of t
Read more(ShareCast News) - Mortgage lending remained resilient in May as banks and building societies lent more than in April and than in May last year. Gross mortgage lending swelled to £18.2bn in May, the Council of Mortgage Lenders estimated, up 3.6% from the preceding month and 13.6% higher than this ti
Read more(ShareCast News) - Business is booming for OneSavings Bank, which has just clocked up a £35m profit after selling a £250m securitisation of pre-crisis mortgages, writes the Financial Times' Lex column. The buy-to-let lender intended to use the dosh to originate more mortgages, and its loan books hav
Read more(ShareCast News) - FTSE 250 was marginally firmer in late afternoon trade as UK traders wound down ahead of a long weekend, with few of today's in-the-news mid-cap stocks figuring among that index's top-10 risers. Shares in Phoenix Group Holdings were ahead as it agreed with AXA UK to buy AXA Wealth
Read more(ShareCast News) - The FTSE 250 slipped further into the red late as Thursday wore on, despite having peeped its head above water around midday. Leading the index lower, shares in Ibstock subsided as the brick maker reported a slow start to the year for its UK clay business had lasted four months b
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