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...“[Retail] customers are migrating from current accounts at the large incumbent banks into savings or fixed-term deposits at some smaller peers,” said Benjamin Toms, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, while...
...However, as RBC’s Cathal Kennedy pointed out, there weren’t really any one-off mitigating factors that should have dragged down the monthly GDP estimate this time (except for maybe wet weather weighing on...
...Mo Marikar is a senior director of digital engineering at RBC Wealth Management, and travels from North Wales to London once a week....
...At $190 per tonne of polyhalite, RBC estimates the value of Woodsmith at just $1.7bn. But at $350 a tonne, that jumps to almost $13bn....
...As Gerard Cassidy of RBC pointed out to me, most banks are not crushed by rate risk (that is precisely why the failures of March were so anomalous). They are crushed by loans going wrong....
...That’s bad but not lethal: the company’s interest-bearing assets yielded 3.36 per cent in the fourth quarter, up from 1.99 per cent, rendering a tightening but still positive spread....
...The Swiss-Swedish industrial conglomerate he runs has confirmed the $2.9bn sale of its mechanical power transmission business Dodge — which is unrelated to the vehicle brand — to US-based RBC Bearings....
...RBC Capital Markets has hired Jane Olney as head of business and client services across the Emea and Apac regions....
...And 91 per cent of them are now forced to raid their capital base to bridge the gap, bearing a worrying resemblance to a Ponzi scheme....
...However, it’s also worth bearing in mind forward guidance from the Selfridges of Sports Retail hasn’t always been a perfect indicator of future performance....
...However, Biraj Borkhataria, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, takes a different view....
...Richard Chamberlain at RBC said he expected the food business to underperform pending range improvements, but that the retailer had derisked its clothing offer by reducing its store footprint and focusing...
...Production from the company’s Centinela mine jumped almost 50 per cent during the quarter as it was able to process more copper-bearing ore....
...Our reported profit increase was achieved despite bearing material transition costs due to our investment programme.”...
...According to RBC Capital Markets, the enterprise value of the FTSE 350 mining index is 6.5 times prospective earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation....
...Jonathan Dann, an analyst at RBC, says the company’s 50 per cent holding of the Dutch joint venture Vodafone-Ziggo could be used as a “horse trade” to get the deal done without increasing debt....
...The group’s interest-bearing debt stood at ¥15.8tn ($143bn) at the end of December even as Mr Son has promised investors to improve its debt-ridden balance sheet....
...Standard Chartered’s Mr Kundu says it was “too early” for outsiders to see tangible results that would allow them to decide whether his bank’s investment in AI is bearing fruit, especially because most of...
...With growth accelerating, unemployment steadily falling, and inflation at comfortable levels, the European Central Bank should be resting easy that its more than two-year stimulus experiment is bearing dividend...
...Ageing populations have also sharpened the need for income-bearing assets, says Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer for fixed income....
...Further, as ING points out, there are many political risks hanging over the possible timing of a hike: But it is worth bearing in mind that the main objective of the Bank’s hawkish signal was to realign...
...While his policies will have more bearing on relations with China, they could ensnare Switzerland’s watch industry....
...Andrew Carter, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, sais that the results were better than expected....
...RBS is more exposed than peers to low interest rates because of its reliance on non-interest-bearing accounts and corporate loans, four-fifths of which are at variable rates, RBC said....
...Aside from that, analysts are hoping that the company will provide some concrete signs that its digital strategy is bearing fruit, such as evidence of better cross-selling....
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