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For income investors, interest rates are especially important as they can affect how attractive dividend shares look compared to bonds or savings accounts.
The Bank of England recently chose to hold the base rate steady at 4%, but with inflation easing and the economy slowing, most analysts expect further reductions in the next 12 months. That could be good news for a number of dividend-paying stocks that have been under pressure in recent years.
I’ve picked out three British shares I think are worth investors considering in a lower-rate environment.
Segro
Segro‘s (LSE: SGRO) a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specialises in warehouses and industrial logistics, but it’s also making moves into growth areas such as data centres. Some reports suggest global spending on data centres could hit $7trn over the next five years, which would be a major growth driver for the…
