19 November Things are looking up for Johnson Matthey (JMAT) after the company announced an attractive set of dividend treats following the sales of its underperforming precious metals refining businesses (and despite a poor H1 earnings report). Shares in JMAT started selling off in late spring and recently settled into a fresh 2-month trading range…
19 November 2015 Poundland (PLND) shares have landed themselves a pounding today after first-half profits fell by almost 50%, troubled by higher costs for its trial run in Spain and the £55m acquisition of rival 99p Stores. What’s more the CEO’s outlook message wasn’t exactly upbeat, divulging that…
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18 November 2015 It’s almost a week now since those tragic Paris attacks and I must admit to still being quite shaken. I’m not sure if it’s because I know Paris well, having lived and worked there for a period, or whether it’s because I now have family there, but, strangely, I seem more…
18 Nov It needn’t have been the case, but what with all the recent faffing around concerning energy policy, it looks like it might be. National Grid (NG.) voiced concern in early November about this, suggesting that by early 2016 the UK might be facing an energy shortage because of an ageing family of under-invested-in…
17 November “We can do better by being bigger,” says Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott international, who has agreed to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. for $12.2bn, in turn creating the world’s largest hotel company. The merger would see the newly formed behemoth in possession of 30 hotel brands including the Ritz-Carlton and…