EP Global Opportunities Trust Plc - Transaction in Own Shares PR Newswire London, February 10 EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company") The Company announces
EP Global Opportunities Trust Plc - Total Voting Rights PR Newswire London, February 10 EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company") Total Voting Rights As
EP Global Opportunities Trust Plc - Closed Period - Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation PR Newswire London, February 5 EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company") Closed
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
Performance review
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
The Australian share market is set to swell at the open, following positive tailwinds from the US. All 3 major US benchmarks rebounded after their worst day of trade in three months. Oil, gold and iron ore however all dropped overnight.
Local economic news
Today the Reserve Bank of Australia will release data on private sector credit for the month of December, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release producer prices for the December quarter.
Markets
To the figures from around the globe: Wall Street closed higher yesterday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained almost 1 per cent to 30,603, the S&P 500 added almost 1 per cent also to 3787 and the NASDAQ closed 0.5 per cent higher at 13337.