NatWest Group PLC (LSE:NWG) takes up its familiar Friday spot with investors eyeing news on some chunky returns.
Along with Lloyds, the former RBS is forecast to pay out cash worth more than 40% of their market caps in the coming few years, helped to a large degree by the build-up of reserves in the pandemic and the recent step-up in the sector's profitability from higher interest rates.
NatWest has also been in the news after boss Alison Rose said she was no longer too busy to attend a parliamentary grilling to explain why UK banks are passing so little of the recent rises in interest rates on to savers.
Significant announcements
Finals: Allianz Technology Trust PLC (LSE:ATT), NatWest Group PLC, Segro PLC
AGMs: Sunrise Resources PLC (AIM:SRES)
Economic announcements: Retail Sales (UK), Import and Export Price Indices (US)
US earnings: Deere, Liberty Broadband