We start the review on a positive note with the news of two small-cap IPOs (initial public offers), one in the healthcare space and one in the red-hot AI (artificial intelligence) space.Having sold its governance, risk and compliance software business to private equity earlier this year and returned £225 million to shareholders via a buyback and special dividend, business services group...

UK markets take a pause for breath in early trade on Tuesday with little in the way of macroeconomic or corporate news to drive share prices one way or the other.This is illustrated by a barely moving FTSE 100 index, which nudges around 12 points higher in early deals to 7,189.51. That's a far cry from the 84 point bounce seen for the blue-chip index in Monday's trading session following...