Hints and tips:
...Global/HCOB services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) figures Indonesia: Q4 GDP figures Mexico: Constitution Day holiday....
...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...
...networked world and companies to launch new digital toys....
...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...
...Economic indicators: The Institute of Supply Chain Management’s services purchasing managers’ index is expected to have declined to 55.5 in October from 56.7 in September, meaning non-manufacturing sectors...
...Monday Asia region IHS Markit purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data China, Caixin composite and services PMI data EU, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde speaks in a hearing to the European...
...Given the reopening of many of these services over the Jul/Aug period a strong bounce is likely, but key will be where the new normal lies....
...S&P Global Sector: FINANCIALS / HQ: NEW YORK, US Key stat: Investment-grade companies have issued more than $1tn of debt this year, a record....
...The company has cut A&P spending, deferred some capex and is tightly managing working capital. ......
...L and net debt....
...Monday’s economic calendar (all times London): 08.15: Spain services purchasing managers’ index 08.15: Switzerland consumer price index 08.45: Italy services PMI 08.50: France services PMI (final) 08.55:...
...With every new purchase come new promises of synergies and cost-cutting....
...Flash December purchasing manager’s indices for the services and manufacturing sectors are out for France (0800 GMT), Germany (0830) and the eurozone (0900), followed at 1000 GMT by final eurozone inflation...
...He adds: The rise of wireless and broadband, energy production innovations such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, and the mobile app/Internet boom are creating new markets and new investment...
...After less than stellar manufacturing and construction readings this week, it’s the turn of the dominant services sector today, with the the UK Service Sector Purchasing Managers’ Index for July....
...In the US, the prospect of some big ticket M&A deals propelled the S&P 500 to within sight of a record high, with shares of US oil and gas storage companies in focus after pipeline operator Energy Transfer...
...The company is splitting into a retail side under former finance director Ian Kellett and a services division under Sally Hopson....
...The New Yorker looks at whether the former oil tycoon could displace Vladimir Putin....
...The new option from AT&T, which includes unlimited talk and texting services, costs $160 per month for a family of four. A similar plan at Verizon costs $100 more a month....
...That has led to “financial repression” – obliging companies to hold more bonds, whether or not they consider them good value....
...Petroleum GeoServices , the third-largest company that helps to locate new oil reserves, rose 9.3 per cent to NKr83.25 after it reported second-quarter profit ahead of expectations....
...Investors reacted to the announcement on Facebook by its chief executive that the video streaming service’s customers watched more than 1bn hours of movies and TV shows online in June, a record for the company...
...The official purchasing managers’ index for manufacturing rose to 53.3 last month, its highest in more than a year, from 53.1 in March....
...L. 11.50 Welcome to the Usain Bolt economy....
...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/batista-seeks-partner-to-tap-1-5-trillion-resources.html America Movil offers concessions to overturn $1bn fine America Movil SAB, the wireless carrier controlled...
International Edition