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...His remarks came as L’Oréal reported a 7.6 per cent rise in sales last year to €41.18bn, slightly below consensus estimates compiled by Visible Alpha and below the double-digit growth it had recorded in...
...Sales in the fourth quarter grew 13 per cent to €3.36bn, ahead of forecasts from UBS and following double-digit growth in its biggest markets in North America and Asia the same time last year....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 index is likely to set new highs and deliver double-digit returns in the coming months after racking up records so far this year if its historical performance is any guide....
...“The bad news on Kering is company specific, but is also a good reminder that consumer confidence and discretionary spend in China is soft.”...
...“Most of these credits need significantly below double-digit yields to be sustainable.”...
...Shares of one of the biggest US freight transport companies slid after it issued a profit warning — and flagged a double-digit drop in operating margins — due to “soft demand”....
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...Carrefour, which has fallen out with PepsiCo over the price it pays for products such as soft drinks and Doritos crisps, is trying to turn this narrative on its head....
...The fed funds rate at 5.5 per cent, plus quantitative tightening — those policies were designed to bring inflation down from high single digit/low double digit levels, and for unemployment, which was closer...
...Incomes have risen at double-digit levels in many countries in the region recent years, but the fund says productivity has largely stalled....
...Meanwhile, borrowing costs remain three times higher than the lows recorded in 2021, meaning the housing market is likely to stay subdued with low transaction numbers and soft prices....
...At the start of last year, it added, real estate related flows accounted for a single-digit percentage slice of its overall trading, which is focused on illiquid assets....
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...Such episodes of “immaculate disinflation”, where double-digit price rises have been conquered without a significant rise in joblessness, are rare....
...Soft data, reported in purchasing manager surveys, were weakening sharply....
...Same-store sales are forecast to increase in the low- to mid-single digits for the current fiscal year....
...All of this is consistent with a soft or softish landing rather than outright recession, but the trends bear watching. On to the Christmas season....
...All the other funds own single-digit positions beneath the 5 per cent disclosure threshold....
...Can hopes for a soft landing grow even stronger than they are now?...
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...It has been a slow grower historically, but Wall Street thinks it’s possible that revenue and sales growth will be in the mid-single digits, or better, this year....
...Some investors are now warning that analysts’ low double-digit earnings growth estimates for 2024 look wildly optimistic....
...“Fixed income has come back as a really investable asset class — the ability to invest in fixed income and make mid single-digits of yield,” says John Graham, president and chief executive officer of CPP...
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