- Diploma chief's wife buys just under £65,000 on shares- Diploma management confirm guidance in recent update- Tesco director invests $45,00o despite disappointing first quarterMichele Claude Lowden, wife of Diploma (DPLM) non-executive chair David Lowden, bought 2,500 shares on 30 August.She paid £25.76 for each share, valuing the transaction at £64,391.27. Following the transaction, David Lo

- Group posts strong first half results- Sales bolstered by organic growth and price hikes- Full year targets maintainedShares in industrial and life sciences equipment supplier Diploma (DPLM) fell 4% to £24.96 even though the firm delivered an upbeat first half report and stuck to its recently raised guidance.'We are not complacent about the economic outlook, but the second half has started real

London's FTSE was weaker at midday on Monday, despite optimism over the UK's lifting of additional Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, as sterling strength, worries regarding the India variant of the virus and weakness in the banking and mining sectors weighed on investor sentiment.By midday, the blue chip benchmark was down 0.7% at 6,994.01 points.UK investors will be keeping a close eye on consumer

Having opened positively, the FTSE 100 fell 0.36% to 7,017.96 by 9am on Monday as optimism over the reopening of the leisure sector indoors in England and the lifting of the ban on foreign holidays was weighed against continuing fears over inflation.The more domestically-focused FTSE 250 index also fell after an earlier gain, dipping 0.03% into the red at 22,239.08.Investors will be keeping a clos