1 Feb Donald trump actually looks like pretty much any animal on the planet. Here, I’ve found one in which he looks exactly like an Amazon Horned Frog (Trump is, in fact, on the right). The polls are giving him a very real chance of getting the Republican nomination for the US presidential election, but…
Shares in telecom giant BT Group (BT.A) are topping the UK 100 this morning after investors welcomed an upbeat consensus-beating Q3 report card showing profits +14% on demand for its fiber-optic broadband services and which allowed management to reiterate FY 15/16 guidance. Growth is the strongest in several years, helped by the consumer division which…
Analyst Weekly roundup – 29 Jan 2016 UK equities have rallied back to the key 6000 level this week, taking the recovery from January lows to an impressive 7%. Sentiment has been boosted by a brace of drivers including an oil price recovery from 13yr lows and more action by accommodative central banks, which provided…
Glencore (GLEN) shares are leading the UK Index Mining sector higher this morning, maintaining their recovery trend from mid-month lows. This despite some indirect USD strength from the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) decision to join major peers like the ECB and SNB and take interest rates negative, thus weakening the JPY. Sentiment…
The world is splattered with the word ‘growth’ these days. Journalists, politicians, economists, authoritarians, they’re all saying it. This growth and that growth and, of course, annual adjusted normalised existential growth. Yet nowhere have I heard anyone ask what the word growth actually means in the context of the UK economy and indeed the wider…
27 Jan Shares in Sage Group (SAGE) are more hardware than software this morning after the company pleased traders with a glowing outlook. On track to meet organic revenue growth of 6% in 2016, performance appears to have been led by Europe where businesses are wallowing in a bath of easy money. Concerns about falling…