Tesco Bank lags its parent supermarket brand April 26, 2011 WITH Tesco boss Phil Clarke saying that expanding its presence within the banking sector is one of his top priorities we’ve looked at BrandIndex data to make an assessment of the potential it has there. Tesco Bank itself does not fare especially well at the moment. On the index measure it is in 18th place [...]
THE TIPSTER April 3, 2011 THIS week sees a fourth quarter trading update from Marks & Spencer. The impact of the VAT hike, rising commodity prices and careful consumers will make for interesting reading. With so many others on the high street struggling, there is no real hope of a good performance from M&S. Overseas ambitions may well help in [...]
THE TIPSTER April 3, 2011 THIS week sees a fourth quarter trading update from Marks & Spencer. The impact of the VAT hike, rising commodity prices and careful consumers will make for interesting reading. With so many others on the high street struggling, there is no real hope of a good performance from M&S. Overseas ambitions may well help in [...]
RBS GIVES BACK WITH BORIS BUSINESS DEAL May 15, 2011 GOOD to see that RBS, 83 per cent owned by the taxpayer, is giving something back, after the bank donated £275,000 to Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s “Business Bootcamps”. The scheme, launched last Friday, aims to help London’s fledgling entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground through a series of bootcamp-style workshops run by business [...]
New counting firm emerges amid AV row April 25, 2011 A SECOND vote-counting machine boss, whose firm stands to gain from a switch to the Alternative Vote, has extolled the virtues of scrapping Britain’s first past the post electoral system. Anne Marie-Slavin, chief executive of Opt2Vote, a vote-counting firm that has a contract for all of Scotland’s council and by-elections, said: “The introduction of electronic [...]
FTSE buoyed by commodity price rebound May 18, 2011 The FTSE came within a nudge of 6,000 today as strong gains by commodity prices strengthened mining stocks, while property companies topped the gainers. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,923.49, above the 5,860 support level, as risk appetite returned to the market, helped by positive economic data showing UK unemployment fell for a second consecutive [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS March 24, 2011 ENRC UBS rates the Kazakh miner “buy” with a 12-month target price of £13. ENRC’s results on Wednesday met the broker’s expectations, with earnings per share beating forecasts by 13 per cent due to exceptional items linked to an acquisition. UBS expects the firm’s costs to rise in line with the industry as it undertakes [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS March 24, 2011 ENRC UBS rates the Kazakh miner “buy” with a 12-month target price of £13. ENRC’s results on Wednesday met the broker’s expectations, with earnings per share beating forecasts by 13 per cent due to exceptional items linked to an acquisition. UBS expects the firm’s costs to rise in line with the industry as it undertakes [...]
Land Securities and miners lead the FTSE index to gains May 18, 2011 STRONG energy stocks and miners drove Britain’s top shares higher yesterday as investors welcomed results from Land Securities. The FTSE 100 index ended up 62.49 points, or 1.1 per cent, at 5,923.49. Other London indices followed suit, with the FTSE 250 closing up 51.55 points, or 0.4 per cent at 11,887.54 and the FTSE AIM [...]
Land Securities and miners lead the FTSE index to gains May 18, 2011 STRONG energy stocks and miners drove Britain’s top shares higher yesterday as investors welcomed results from Land Securities. The FTSE 100 index ended up 62.49 points, or 1.1 per cent, at 5,923.49. Other London indices followed suit, with the FTSE 250 closing up 51.55 points, or 0.4 per cent at 11,887.54 and the FTSE AIM [...]