Hints and tips:
...AstraZeneca Q4, British American Tobacco FY, CMC Markets trading update and revised outlook for 2024, ConocoPhillips Q4, Compass Group Q1 trading update and AGM, Crédit Agricole FY, Honda Q3, Kering FY, L’...
...Financial Times reporters consider this and other trends affecting businesses from defence contractors to energy majors, luxury and private equity....
...Monday France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips/HCOB manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Germany: monthly retail sales figures Results: Cranswick Q1 trading...
...Lloyds FY; Nvidia FY; Stellantis FY; Baidu Q4; Danone FY; Ebay Q4; Garmin FY; Etsy FY; Domino’s Pizza Q4; Rio Tinto FY Thursday UK, Keynote speech at the Resolution Foundation in London by Catherine L...
...Monday Deloitte publishes its annual survey of chief financial officers UK, regional PMI data published by S&P Global US, former Amazon executive David Risher is appointed the new boss of ride-hailing...
...Monday EU, December retail sales figures Germany, December factory orders UK, S&P Global/Cips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Results: Activision Blizzard Q4, Anima FY, JFE Holdings...
...This excludes delivery riders, who are classified as contractors....
...The war in Ukraine has boosted the fortunes of the world’s largest defence contractors with governments promising to increase spending on weapons and other military equipment....
...“P&O provides a case study of how not to do it,” Marmot added....
...Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda will be revealing their P&Ls this week....
...But for those who took a “buy and hold” approach instead, the S&P 500 remains stubbornly stuck below pre-pandemic levels....
...In the US, S&P 500 non-financial companies were sitting on $1.35tn of cash and equivalents at the end of June....
...If you are looking to predict the shape of the US economic recovery — be it V, W, L or even K — don’t look at the markets....
...“L&G offers a 6.3% 2020E dividend yield, 1.2% above the sector average. Pre-2016 L&G's yield averaged 0.4% above the sector.”...
...The other, a careful, regulation-respecting, expense-cutting business that abandons cities where the return on investment is too low, going over "every single P&L item" in a bid to trim losses....
...RB's unmatched P&L flexibility is paving the way for fast improving market share momentum, notably in the 20% of its cells that have been persistent underperformers. ... and for Unilever, a €43/£40 target...
...L, until the final CMA decision, expected on 11 May....
...What happens further down the P&L is largely a question of capital structure, but it appears most will be either loss-making or make only marginal PBT....
...The bulls will point to a P/B below 1, FY21e EV/EBITDA of 4x and EFCF Yield of 8% as evidence of clear value....
...Unfortunately, someone else interrupted the light rays more profoundly: just before she was set to remove the paper, a LACMA contractor lifted the camera’s ceiling, inadvertently spoiling the photograph....
...The experts are “Amazon employees, not contractors”, Amazon notes on its website....
...Intraday In the US, the S&P 500 is set to open up 0.1 per cent later on Wall Street....
...For government contractors, what better opportunity is there to bury bad news that Budget day? For G4S, however, most of the bad news has already been all too public....
...US defence contractor L-3 Communications led the declines on the benchmark S&P 500 after the company said it was conducting an investigation into alleged misconduct that led to overstatements of sales and...
...The FTSE Eurofirst 300 is down 0.4 per cent, not helped by US index futures indicating the S&P 500 will be flat at 1,920 when Wall Street opens later in the day....
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