Week Ahead: London Stock Exchange | US semiconductors | BP

The torch has been lit, the first medals have been won and the Games of the 28th Olympiad are officially underway in Paris. That means a lot of my week ahead will be spent sobbing at the television (my reaction to sporting endeavour and success can be quite alarming).

In between, I will try and find time to digest the fair number of financial results which are due to be published this week (see table below). After Alphabet’s numbers caused the US tech sector to stumble last Thursday, it will be interesting to see whether Microsoft, Apple or Meta perform any better (you can read Mark’s review of Meta in last week’s Week Ahead). And joining the ranks US tech stocks reporting this week is ARM, the British chipmaker which, last September, chose to list on Nasdaq rather than the London Stock Exchange.

Speaking of which, the LSE will be sharing its own interim numbers, alongside cohort of big British stocks. Among them, BAE Systems and Rolls Royce, which we compared in our stock analysis workshop a couple of weeks ago. The verdict from our comparison (which you can read in more detail here or rewatch via this link)...