easyJet plc (LON: EZJ), Whitbread plc (LON: WTB) and HSBC Holdings plc (LON: HSBA) are picking up. After a shaky start to the week yesterday, when the FTSE 100 managed a modest 22-point gain, the index of top UK shares is looking a little stronger ...

Remember the good old days when investors held banking shares for their safe dividend income? The financial crash shattered that. More recently, banking stocks have been a recovery play for those investors brave enough to bet that the eurozone crisis ...

HSBC Holdings plc (LON:HSBA) has delivered strong shareholder returns and remains a buy, says Roland Head. Before I decide whether to buy a bank's shares, I always like to look at its return on equity and its core tier 1 capital ratio.

China's modern currency, the renminbi, has a 65-year history, but money as a payment mechanism in China can be traced back 3,000 years to inscriptions on ancient bronze vessels.

I'm looking at some of your favourite FTSE 100 companies and examining how each will deliver their dividends. Today, I'm putting banking behemoth HSBC Holdings (LSE: HSBA) (NYSE: HBC.US) under the microscope.

HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC) a company that provides various banking and financial products and services is currently up (+1.78%) on 286,373 shares traded after Citigroup upgraded HSBC to Buy from Neutral, according to Briefing.

Can HSBC Holdings plc's (LON: HSBA) total return beat the wider market? To me, capital growth and dividend income are equally important.

How might earnings at HSBC Holdings plc (LON:HSBA) change in the years to come? When weighing up a potential investment, we need to look forward rather than backwards.

Titan bank HSBC (LSE: HSBA)(NYSE: HBC.US) is the second-most valuable company in the FTSE 100. It has a fantastic track record, making profits and paying dividends throughout the financial crisis.

HSBC Friday cut its forecasts for platinum prices this year and next even though it expects an increasingly tight supply from South Africa to lend support to prices.