Sharecast: London's Real-Time Financial News Wire for UK Investors

Sharecast is a London-based financial news wire that provides real-time UK stock market news, share prices and market data to investors and media outlets. Operating from London, England, through its website at sharecast.com, the service follows the rhythm of the trading day, publishing market reports before the open, during trading and after the close, alongside a continuous flow of company announcements, results reports and broker commentary. For private investors who follow shares listed in London, Sharecast has become a familiar byline, because its stories appear not only on its own site but also syndicated through other investment platforms.

The service is described on partner platforms as powered by Digital Look, and its news has long been distributed under the Sharecast News name by outlets including Hargreaves Lansdown, one of Britain's largest investment platforms. That syndication model is central to what Sharecast is: not simply a destination website, but a wire whose reporting is designed to be read wherever investors check their portfolios.

Overview

Sharecast covers the London stock market in depth, with particular attention to the FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and the wider FTSE indices, as well as international markets that affect trading in London. Its daily output mixes original market reporting written by its own journalists with regulatory announcements released by listed companies. Stories are organised into recognisable categories, including market reports from the pre-open, the open and the close, results and trading reports, dividend declarations, transactions in own shares, company announcements and a financial diary of forthcoming events.

The audience is primarily the retail investor community in the United Kingdom, together with the media outlets and investment platforms that license or carry its copy. Because much of its reporting is built around scheduled events — company results, economic data releases and central bank decisions — Sharecast functions as both a news service and a diary, telling readers what is expected, what has happened and how markets have reacted.

Market Reporting Through the Trading Day

The most distinctive part of Sharecast's output is its sequence of daily market reports. The London pre-open report looks ahead to the session, summarising overnight trading on Wall Street and in Asia, the economic data due that day and the company results expected to move prices, and it typically reports how the FTSE 100 is expected or called to open. The London open report then confirms how stocks have actually started, noting the level of the index, movements in commodities such as Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate, and the biggest early risers and fallers.

Later reports, including coverage of the US close, follow American indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, because the performance of United States markets feeds directly into sentiment in London the following morning. A regular week-ahead feature previews the coming days, highlighting earnings seasons, inflation prints and other data that investors will be watching. This structure means a reader can follow an entire story — expectation, event and reaction — within Sharecast's own pages.

Company News and Regulatory Announcements

Alongside its market reporting, Sharecast republishes and organises the regulatory announcements issued by listed companies. These include annual and half-year results, trading statements, dividend declarations, notices of general meetings, prospectus publications and notifications of transactions in a company's own shares. Many of these announcements are supplied through RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange, which is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom, and the RNS attribution appears on the announcements Sharecast carries.

For investors, the value of this flow is speed and completeness. A share buyback notice, a change in treasury share holdings or a director dealing may not make national headlines, but each can matter to the people who own the stock. By presenting these announcements in the same place as its market commentary, Sharecast gives readers the raw material of company news as well as an interpretation of it.

Share Prices, Data and Company Pages

Sharecast is also a data service. Its equity pages present individual companies with their sector, the indices to which they belong, the latest share price and its movement on the day, the day's low and high, opening and previous closing prices, a 52-week range, trading volume and market capitalisation. Key financial measures are shown alongside the price, including dividend yield and dividend cover, operating margin, return on capital employed and valuation ratios such as the price-earnings ratio, the price-earnings growth ratio, price to revenue and price to book value, with both latest and forecast figures where available.

Historical fundamentals tables set out several years of revenue, pre-tax profit, earnings per share, dividends and yield for each company, allowing readers to see a track record rather than a single snapshot. Each company page also gathers the latest WebFG and Sharecast news about that stock, so that data and journalism sit side by side. On platforms that carry its market data, prices are typically delayed by at least 15 minutes, a standard arrangement for freely available market information.

Broker Views and Analyst Commentary

Another regular strand of Sharecast reporting covers what City brokers and analysts are saying about individual shares. Its broker tips features summarise recommendation changes, target price revisions and the reasoning behind them, drawing on research from firms across the London market. A downgrade or upgrade story will typically explain the broker's argument in detail, quote the current share price reaction and set the change in the context of the company's recent results and outlook.

Sharecast's market reports also weave in comment from strategists and analysts at a wide range of financial firms. Its journalists gather reaction to economic data, such as retail sales figures from the British Retail Consortium and KPMG monitor or house price data from Nationwide, and to company news, quoting market experts on what the numbers mean for interest rates, consumer spending and investor sentiment. This gives its coverage a conversational quality that reflects how the City itself discusses the trading day.

Services and Distribution

Sharecast's distribution reaches well beyond its own website. Its stories appear, credited to Sharecast News, on the Hargreaves Lansdown website among other platforms, where they sit alongside that platform's own share prices and market latest tables covering indices such as the FTSE 100, FTSE 250, the Paris CAC 40, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq. Partner sites carry a notice that they may not share Sharecast's views, underlining that Sharecast is an independent editorial supplier whose copy is hosted by others.

The association with Digital Look is part of this history. Digital Look was a well-known UK investor website offering screening tools, watchlists and portfolio features, and its users were later directed towards WebFG, with Sharecast emerging as the public-facing news brand through which the same market news and data operation continued to publish. Sharecast equity pages still surface WebFG-branded news, reflecting that shared lineage.

Coverage Areas

Geographically, Sharecast's heartland is London and the UK market, but its coverage is international in scope. European indices, United States earnings and economic data, Asian market movements and global commodity prices all feature regularly, because all of them influence the prices of shares traded in London. Sectors covered in its company news span the whole listed market, from banks, insurers and housebuilders to defence companies, utilities, retailers, miners and technology firms.

The service also follows the macroeconomic calendar closely. Inflation figures, gross domestic product estimates, purchasing managers' indices, retail sales and central bank decisions in the UK, the eurozone and the United States are previewed and reported as they land, with market reaction and analyst interpretation attached.

Digital Platforms

Sharecast publishes through sharecast.com, a website organised around news categories, market data and individual company pages. The structure allows two kinds of reading: following the news flow chronologically, as a wire, or entering through a specific company and reading everything the service holds about that stock — price, fundamentals, announcements and news stories — in one place. Its financial diary adds a forward-looking element, listing the results, trading updates and economic releases scheduled for the days ahead.

Because its content is syndicated, Sharecast's digital presence also includes the many third-party investment sites that embed its news. For the reader, this means the same Sharecast market report may be encountered on a broker's website, a share dealing platform or a financial portal, always under the Sharecast News credit.

Role in UK Investor News

Sharecast occupies a specific niche in British financial media. National newspapers cover markets selectively, and the major global wires focus on professional subscribers, whereas Sharecast writes continuous, accessible market news for the private investor, in plain language, throughout the trading day. Its combination of a news wire, regulatory announcement feed and share data in a single service explains its longevity as a syndication partner for investment platforms that need market copy they can publish under a trusted credit.

Its reporting style is factual and fast-moving rather than investigative: the emphasis is on what has moved, why traders say it moved, and what is scheduled to happen next. For readers building a picture of a company over time, the accumulation of results reports, broker notes and announcement coverage on a single equity page forms a useful running record.

Recent Developments

Sharecast continues to publish its full cycle of market reports daily, with recent coverage following a heavy United States bank earnings season, UK retail sales and house price data, and a steady stream of London-listed company results, buyback notices and dividend announcements through the autumn of 2026. Its week-ahead and financial diary features remain a fixture, previewing inflation data and corporate reporting schedules on both sides of the Atlantic.

The service's model has remained consistent even as the platforms carrying it have evolved: original market journalism from London, regulatory news delivered through RNS, and structured share data, distributed together to investors directly and through partner websites. In a market where individual investors increasingly manage their own portfolios online, that combination keeps Sharecast a working part of the UK's financial information infrastructure.