Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...In another blow, Glass Lewis raised concerns over the board’s plan to be able to issue shares of up to 50 per cent of the company’s share capital — exceeding the 33 per cent cap set by the industry body,...
...Buybacks by Japanese companies in 2023 hit a record ¥9.6tn, with the number of companies announcing them exceeding 1,000 for the second year in a row, according to a recent calculation by the Nikkei newspaper...
Decision comes as advertising industry faces existential threats from generative artificial intelligence
...The yen fell past ¥154 to the dollar for the first time since 1990, exceeding levels that some analysts have warned could draw direct intervention from Japan....
...The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast in March that the UK would expand 0.8 per cent this year and by 1.9 per cent in 2025, exceeding the IMF’s new 1.5 per cent prediction....
...The UK’s blue-chip index was down 1.9 per cent by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, exceeding the 1.6 per cent declines of its peers in France and Germany. The mid-cap FTSE 250 fell 1.7 per cent....
...China’s gross domestic product grew 5.3 per cent in the first quarter against a year earlier, exceeding market expectations as Beijing tries to steer a manufacturing-led revival of the world’s second-largest...
...Glass Lewis said: “The company has notched its second consecutive year with a significant disconnect between pay and performance, driven, at least in part, by compensation levels exceeding the median of...
...France’s Thales has reported an 11 per cent jump in annual operating profit to €2.1bn, exceeding the level seen before the pandemic for the first time since 2019 as it benefits from a recovery in civil aviation...
...The Bundesbank warned it expected to make another “significant” loss this year, exceeding the €700mn of remaining reserves....
...Japan’s stock market has climbed past its all-time closing high, exceeding the record level struck during the country’s late-1980s asset bubble after a 34-year wait....
...Data from Eurostat showed industrial production on an annual basis rose 1.2 per cent in December — exceeding the 4.1 per cent fall predicted by economists — in part due to a 45 per cent annual increase in...
...Consumer price inflation in the UK rose to 4 per cent in December from 3.9 per cent the month before, but that left the rate far below the levels exceeding 10 per cent that it reached a year earlier....
...With annual sales exceeding 3mn cars, BYD’s volume allows it to cut prices while maintaining profitability, a feat given that most battery EV-only manufacturers are loss making....
...Inflation is notoriously difficult to forecast, with absolute errors (relative to consensus) on one- and two-year ahead consensus inflation forecasts regularly exceeding 0.4pp....
...“Moderate production exceeding demand is conducive to full competition and survival of the fittest,” Li said, addressing EU concerns that China was planning to dump excess electric vehicle production....
...Last year, more than 183,000 panels were installed across the country, exceeding the total for 2022 by one-third, according to MCS, a renewable energy certification scheme....
...Roland Rechtsteiner, a partner at McKinsey and one of the authors of the widely read annual study, estimated that earnings before interest and tax across the sector reached $104bn in 2024, exceeding the...
...China’s deflation worsened in November, data released on Saturday showed, with consumer prices falling 0.5 per cent year on year, more than economists had forecast and exceeding the previous month’s decline...
...The number of robots used in manufacturing in China reached a ratio of 322 units per 10,000 employees in 2021, exceeding robot density in the US....
...The jump in retail sales, exceeding the 0.4 per cent rise forecast by economists in a Reuters poll, was a rare piece of good news for Europe’s largest economy, which is widely expected to contract this year...
...Land temperatures in March were 14.14C, exceeding the previous high set in March 2016 by 0.1C....
...It has been badly outpaced by arch-rival Uber, whose market cap now has reached $140bn (Uber on Wednesday morning announced a $7bn buyback programme, a figure exceeding the overall equity value of Lyft)....
...biggest banks have moved more than 1,600 people to the French capital and are still building out their operations with dozens of planned hires, with the broader number of moves in the financial sector exceeding...
International Edition