Daily Stock Market Report (Tue 24 Dec 2024): VTY, WNWD

Good morning and Happy Christmas Eve!
A profit warning and a takeover offer today have provided quite an apt summary of the UK markets in 2024. But for those looking for a bit more festive cheer I would encourage you to read one of the review articles we've published in the last few days:
Graham has published his watchlist, including a review of the ten stocks in his 2024 list and an updated list for 25. You can read that here. Ed has reviewed the winners and losers in the StockRanks. Click here to read that. And Mark has provided a poignant summary of 2024 through the eyes of risk. Click here for that.
I am going to wrap up the news coverage here at 11am and we'll be taking a couple of days off from the daily report while the markets are closed for Christmas. 

I'll be back on Friday and in the meantime we'll be kicking off our '12 Stocks of Christmas' - a deep dive on 12 companies that our analysts are looking at for 2025, one for each day of the post-Christmas lull. Have a lovely Christmas.

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