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...News round-up Morgan Stanley accused of duping ECB with fake Frankfurt job title (FT) S&P Global close to acquisition of research platform Visible Alpha (FT) Carlyle in talks with London airport owner...
...Revenues have been flat for the past seven years, according to S&P CIQ data, which means they are falling in real terms....
...Both Halfords and Currys, reporting on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, sell big-ticket items, typically shunned by shoppers in an economic squeeze....
...Full-year data for Bang & Olufsen, Currys and Jet2 is announced....
...While bids for Direct Line and Currys have fallen away, interest in UK companies from international investors, private equity and trade buyers is expected to continue, offering a short-term fillip for investors...
...Monday’s share price rise follows a tumultuous week after S&P Global downgraded the company to junk status last week amid concerns about its exposure to rising interest rates....
...Ethan WuSometimes you’re Steph Curry though. Robert ArmstrongSometimes you’re Steph Curry, sometimes you miss. So I don’t regret of course packing the portfolio with risk....
...Also, RICS residential market house price survey US: monthly retail sales figures Results: Bunzl trading statement, Capita trading update, Costco Wholesale Q1, Currys HY, Nordson Q4, Serco FY Friday...
...Katie Bickerstaffe, who was appointed co-CEO of British retailer Marks and Spencer last year, has experience in HR and marketing, but was also a regional CEO of Dixons Carphone (now Currys)....
...Global/Sips construction purchasing managers’ index (PMI) US: S&P Global services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) Results: Bang & Olufsen FY, Currys FY, Jet2 FY, Levi Strauss & Co Q1, Naked Wines FY,...
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...The benchmark S&P 500 rose 1.3 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 1.9 per cent. European stocks have followed Wall Street’s lead today....
...Currys could be quite interesting given that the British electrical goods retailer is the clear market leader but its market cap has shrivelled, margins are tight and there is a sense that the pandemic was...
...Quadruple Witching Day, when during the final hour of stock market trading stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single-stock futures expire EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P...
...of being added to the S&P 500, the benchmark index of US blue-chips run by another subsidiary, S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...Currys: The UK’s electrical retail market leader publishes its interim results. Currys acknowledged disruptions in the supply chain in its first-half trading update....
...The researchers noted that: “To rule out the possibility that firms buy more ratings merely because they wish to issue more bonds for expansion, rather than to curry favour with S&P, we control for both...
...Marc FilippinoIt occurs to me that a lot of this is the US trying to curry favour with places that they’ve angered in the past. Is that possible at this stage of the game?...
...His approach is not to curry favour, but to put his house in order....
...Today’s numbers are strong, there’s no doubt about that, but we would suggest that, so far, the attempts to curry favour with the big brands have been no more than a qualified success, and relationships...
...Dell's shares have underperformed the S&P 500 since returning to public markets through a merger with publicly traded VMware in December 2018....
...We value IAG at a P/B 2019 of 0.4x (as for AF-KLM / at a 20% discount to Lufthansa’s P/B multiple in the lows in 2009; IAG was formed in 2011)....
...SSP trades on a CY19 P/E of 21.8x, EV/EBITDA of 9.9x and FCF yield of 5%. This compares to a peak P/E of 25.7x (Sep-18)....
...It will try to retain some of the business (we estimate around half) in its c.300 Currys PC World stores....
...Since then, its ebitda margins have shrunk considerably -- from 28.3 per cent in 2017 to just 15.4 per cent in the first-half of 2019 according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
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