It has never been easier to generate passive income from the stock market. Here are two ideas for those with £500 to invest to consider today. The post £500 to invest this payday? Here are 2 great passive income ideas to consider appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC closed 5.82% short of its 52-week high of £11.69, which the company achieved on June 20th.

The biggest risers on the FTSE 100 were St James’s Place, up 101p to 1,030p, Airtel Africa, up 12p to 145p, Endeavour Mining, up 111p to 1,652p, Fresnillo, up 37.5p to 712.5p, and easyJet, up 20.9p to 511.6p.

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC HL shares inched down 0.14% to £11.01 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX rising 0.02% to 8,503.71.

Shares of Hargreaves Lansdown PLC HL inched up 0.14% to £11.02 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX falling 0.73% to 8,502.

Harvey Jones was pleased to learn that Legal & General shares are top of the pops among ISA millionaires. Better still, they're buying for the same reason he is. The post ISA millionaires love Legal & General shares – and so do I!

Markets were on edge on Monday, with the FTSE 100 ( ^FTSE) almost flat and European and US stocks taking a knock, as investors digest the latest developments from an upstart Chinese AI company called DeepSeek.

In an exclusive poll for City AM, Joanna Hodgson surveys major firms to see if hybrid working is still king in the UK

London stocks nudged lower in early trade on Wednesday as investors eyed the latest policy announcement from the US Federal Reserve.

The popularity of lower cost China startup DeepSeek heightened jitters ahead of a big few days for mega-cap results. Elsewhere, low-cost airline Ryanair has downgraded its passenger growth target due to Boeing delivery delays.

London stocks nudged up in early trade on Thursday as investors waded through a deluge of corporate news and looked ahead to the latest policy announcement from the European Central Bank.

FTSE 100-listed Smiths Group is to be broken up after the conglomerate announced plans for the separation of its Interconnect and Detection businesses. The move will allow Smiths to focus on flow and heat management through its remaining businesses of John Crane and Flex-Tek.