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Finance · United KingdomUK companies distributed dividends of £35.1bn during the second quarter of 2025, falling 1.4% on a headline basis year-on-year. This owed mainly to one-off special dividends halving to £2.0bn, and the effect of a weakening dollar, according to Computershare’s quarterly Dividend Monitor. The global financial company’s Q2 report reveals how the greenback’s fall reduced the sterling value of payments declared in dollars by £934m during that quarter…See the Story
Defence contractors and financials accounted for three quarters of Q2’s growth, according to Computershare’s Dividend Monitor report - Wealth DFM

Jean-Claude JunckerIn the aftermath of the euro area debt crisis, Jean-Claude Juncker, then prime minister of Luxembourg, and subsequently president of the European Commission, summed up the dilemma for politicians as: “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.” The same words now ring very true in UK politics. The recent government U-turn on welfare reform could be said to highlight this point. One of the most significa…See the Story