About this content About Sean Mason Sean Mason is a Senior Journalist at Proactive, having researched and written about Canadian and US equities for 20 years. Sean graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in history and economics and has also passed the Canadian Securities Course. He previously worked at Investors Digest of Canada, Stockhouse, and SmallCapPower.com. Read more About the publisher Proactive financial news and online broadcast teams provide fast, accessible, informative and action ...

About this content About Stephen Gunnion Stephen Gunnion is a senior financial journalist and broadcaster at Proactive Investors. He has more than 25 years of experience in television, radio and print media, anchoring on a number of television channels including South Africa's Business Day TV, CNBC Africa and the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where he was the economics editor. He has also worked for Daily Maverick, Bloomberg, the Business Day newspaper and Investors' Chronicle. Read more About ...

About this content About Andrew Kessel Andrew is a financial journalist with experience covering public companies in a wide breadth of industries, including tech, medicine, cryptocurrency, mining and retail. In addition to Proactive, he has been published in a Financial Times-owned newsletter covering broker-dealer firms and in the Columbia Misourian newspaper as the lead reporter focused on higher education. He got his start with an internship at Rolling Stone magazine.  Read more About the publisher Pr ...

Two of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders have cut their mortgage rates following similar moves by rivals. Barclays and Santander have both cut rates by about half of a percentage point on various products notably on two-year fixed mortgages. A two-year fixed with 60% loan to value at Barclays is down from 4.62% to 4.17% while for new customers Santander is cutting rates by up to 0.56% for new customers.  The Spanish bank is offering a 60% LTV five-year fixed rate mortgage will be available at 3.94% while re ...

About this content About Andrew Kessel Andrew is a financial journalist with experience covering public companies in a wide breadth of industries, including tech, medicine, cryptocurrency, mining and retail. In addition to Proactive, he has been published in a Financial Times-owned newsletter covering broker-dealer firms and in the Columbia Misourian newspaper as the lead reporter focused on higher education. He got his start with an internship at Rolling Stone magazine.  Read more About the publisher Pr ...

The best-selling computer game in the UK in 2023 was Electronic Arts Inc's (NASDAQ:EA) replacement for its long-running FIFA series, called EA Sports FC 24 last year.  Total spending on gaming via consoles and PCs grew 2.9% to £4.74 billion, according to the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association ERA. This was a slight increase from the 2.3% growth in 2022 but after outsized growth during the second year of the pandemic. UK gaming sales were more than twice the amount generated in 2013, with digital s ...

GSK PLC (LSE:GSK, NYSE:GSK) should deliver better than expected fourth-quarter results on January 31, according to Barclays, amid heightened expectations driven by the robust performance of its RSV vaccine, Arexvy. Analysts at the bank, who also wondered if 2024 could be "the year Zantac goes away?", said the last set of quarterly results were muddied by the performance of Arexvy. "Though Arexvy's result at 3Q created a lot of confusion, with the inventory stocking benefit and launch costs [were] somewhat u ...

Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC) cut 5,000 jobs over the course of last year in a bid to reduce costs and as “technology and automation” improves. Marking the most substantial cuts at the bank since the 2008 financial crisis, reductions are said to have taken the form of both redundancies and vacancies, as per Sky News. Reductions were made across Barclays’ 84,000-strong global workforce, with about a quarter thought to have hit the bank’s UK operations. Barclays confirmed the cuts in a statement, explaining they we ...

About this content About Angela Harmantas Angela Harmantas is an Editor at Proactive. She has over 15 years of experience covering the equity markets in North America, with a particular focus on junior resource stocks. Angela has reported from numerous countries around the world, including Canada, the US, Australia, Brazil, Ghana, and South Africa for leading trade publications. Previously, she worked in investor relations and led the foreign direct investment program in Canada for the Swedish government ...

About this content About Andrew Kessel Andrew is a financial journalist with experience covering public companies in a wide breadth of industries, including tech, medicine, cryptocurrency, mining and retail. In addition to Proactive, he has been published in a Financial Times-owned newsletter covering broker-dealer firms and in the Columbia Misourian newspaper as the lead reporter focused on higher education. He got his start with an internship at Rolling Stone magazine.  Read more About the publisher Pr ...