Editor's Picks
UK still underpins Imperial ambition
Tuesday 02 Feb 2010
Imperial Tobacco is a global firm and the vast majority of its cigarettes are sold overseas, but in terms of current profitability the UK remains its most important market.
UK construction industry best in almost 2 years
Tuesday 02 Feb 2010
Britain’s construction sector continued to shrink in January, although at its slowest pace in 23 months, according to the latest figures.
Premium broker tips: Property giants look attractive
Tuesday 02 Feb 2010
The UK’s biggest real estate companies have underperformed the wider market in recent months, but Deutsche Bank thinks valuations are now looking attractive.
Orange/T-Mobile merger faces UK probe
Tuesday 02 Feb 2010
UK mobile phone operators Orange and T-Mobile’s planned merger faces an anti-competition probe after the Office of Fair Trading said it had reservations over the deal.
Weak pound helps UK transformation
Monday 01 Feb 2010
More figures this week have shown how the Britain’s export market is benefiting from its weak currency.
Government announces renewable electricity feed-in tariffs
Monday 01 Feb 2010
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has revealed details of its feed-in tariffs for small scale low carbon electricity generated from the likes of solar and wind power.
LSE launches retail bond market
Monday 01 Feb 2010
Some 33 years after the Jim Callaghan-led Labour government became an unlikely midwife to the concept of a ‘share owning democracy’ with its privatisation of a chunk of the government’s stake in BP, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is hoping to convert a proportion of the British public to the appeal of owning bonds.
Premium broker tips: RBS bittersweet on Tate & Lyle
Monday 01 Feb 2010
Companies covered in this item so far: Tate & Lyle, British Airways, easyJet, EADS, Cobham, Rolls-Royce
Ryanair ups guidance
Sunday 31 Jan 2010
Irish no-frills airline Ryanair’s third quarter loss came in lower than forecast as cheaper fuel costs and new routes boosted yields, with profit guidance for the full year also raised. Losses for the three months to December were €10.9m, compared with €101.5m last time, on revenues of €612m, up 1%. Fuel costs fell 37%, which had offset a 12% fall in fares
iPad kindles mixed emotions
Friday 29 Jan 2010
All publicity is good publicity, so the saying goes, but the build up to the launch of Apple’s tablet computer, the iPad, was so prolonged and hyped that when the thing turned out to be, on first sight, a jumbo sized iPhone on steroids, the media reception was mixed.
US fourth quarter GDP beats expectations
Friday 29 Jan 2010
The US economy grew at an annualised pace of 5.7% in the fourth quarter of 2009, ahead of expectations. The rise in gross domestic product was also ahead of the 2.2% increase seen in the third quarter. Re-stocking by companies that had allowed stocks to deplete amid economic uncertainty contributed 3.4% percentage points to the fourth quarter GDP rise.
Week Ahead: Shell, BP, BG Group
Friday 29 Jan 2010
Of the ten biggest companies by market value listed on the London Stock Exchange, five are issuing trading updates in the first week in February.
Equities can recover from January blues
Friday 29 Jan 2010
The FTSE 100 closed lower for the sixth session out of seven on Thursday, but it’s easy to forget that London hit a new 17-month high earlier this month.
Company bonds can offer safety
Friday 29 Jan 2010
If you want to invest in a company, but would prefer to rely on a steady income rather than putting yourself at the mercy of stock market volatility, you may like to take a look at corporate bonds.
LSE retail bond market launches
Friday 29 Jan 2010
Next week, private investors will get the opportunity in an area of the UK market previously populated almost exclusively by institutions and where up to now small investors rarely got a look in.
Premium broker tips: Basel III to squeeze banks
Friday 29 Jan 2010
FBR Capital Markets has lowered price targets in the banking sector in anticipation of the effects of the ‘Basel III’ proposals to increase banks’ capital adequacy.
House prices kick off 2010 with a surge
Friday 29 Jan 2010
Homebuyers started 2010 in keen fashion, pushing prices up 1.2% this month, according to the Nationwide. There were signs late last year that enthusiasm in the housing market was flagging, but the increase in prices from the previous month was the biggest since August. An average home now costs £163,481, 8.6% higher than a year ago
BMW expects profit despite drop in sales
Thursday 28 Jan 2010
German automaker BMW is posting gains in Frankfurt after it said it still expects to post a pre-tax profit for the year despite a drop in sales.
VT Group hoping for outsource boom
Thursday 28 Jan 2010
VT Group has undergone something of a transformation in the past six months and now hopes to benefit from sweeping changes in the way the UK’s infrastructure operates.
Toyota recall
Thursday 28 Jan 2010
Toyota is recalling another 1.1m cars in the US because of sticky accelerator pedals, taking the number of vehicles recalled in recent months to nearly 8m. The Japanese car giant is also extending the recall to Europe and China, although the size of the recall and models involved is yet to be announced. Only yesterday the company said it was suspending sales of eight models built in the US
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