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...FY, ConvaTec FY, DS Smith Q3 trading update, Galliford Try HY, Ibstock FY, Legal & General FY, Netcall HY, Nichols FY, Quilter FY, Rathbones FY, Ricardo HY, Spirent Communications FY, Tullow Oil FY Thursday...
...The smaller than usual group of earnings reports is dominated by British retailers, which should offer a glimpse into how UK consumer confidence is holding up, and housebuilders, reflecting on that other...
...People queued to get into trade shows holding vapes the size of bricks. If you could find a pocket big enough, which you often couldn’t, they slanted you to the side....
...Royal Mail reported 5m letter revenues down 21.5% y/y....
...Among the top 10 holdings of the Impax Environmental Markets fund, for example, is DS Smith, a recycling and waste management company....
...They ultimately come from what both McIlroy and Reason, independently, and on several occasions, refer to as the four Ds....
...Royal Dutch Shell and Total have both recently bought businesses in the consumer energy market — and are tipped as potential buyers for Eneco, according to analysts....
...are a packaging company that no one’s ever heard of …but with this deal we have seen the City at its best, raising money for a recycling business which is helping the environment,” says Miles Roberts, DS...
...… Achievement in Sustainability Winner: Shanks Group Shortlist: AZ Electronics Materials, DS Smith, Morgan Crucible, Shaftesbury Award sponsor: PwC Shanks, the Milton Keynes waste management business...
...Royal Bank of Scotland lost 1.4 per cent to 22¾p and Lloyds Banking Group eased 1 per cent to 29p even after Evolution Securities turned positive on valuation grounds....
...Banks provided the support, with Barclays firming 4.6 per cent to 290¾p and Royal Bank of Scotland up 3.4 per cent to 31¼p....
...Ms Carter joins from Royal Bank of Scotland....
...Sector peer DS Smith was down 7.2 per cent to 70½p on a Goldman Sachs downgrade to “sell”....
...Figures from the Royal Bank of Scotland suggest that not everyone was so lucky....
...One theory doing the rounds yesterday was that the Dubai International Financial Centre could buy a chunk of Nasdaq’s holding....
...Away from the blue chips, DS Smith, up 7.7 per cent to 167¼p, was the top performer....
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