Huge 300bn hole in FTSE 100 pensions July 16, 2009 THE total pension deficit at FTSE 100 companies has more than doubled since January, rising to a staggering £300bn, Deloitte said yesterday. Fallout from the global financial crisis has decimated the value of pension funds’ investments, the accountancy giant said, adding that the shortfall could take 50 years to clear if firms continue to contribute [...]
THE TIPSTER NEW SHARES PLACING LIFTS SAINSBURY’S July 19, 2009 PHARMACEUTICAL company GlaxoSmithKline will report its second quarter results on Wednesday and so far this year the stock has only risen 11 per cent since its March low of around £10, whereas the FTSE 100 has rallied some 24 per cent. Wednesday’s figures might give the drug maker the boost it so badly needs. Capital [...]
THE TIPSTER NEW SHARES PLACING LIFTS SAINSBURY’S July 19, 2009 PHARMACEUTICAL company GlaxoSmithKline will report its second quarter results on Wednesday and so far this year the stock has only risen 11 per cent since its March low of around £10, whereas the FTSE 100 has rallied some 24 per cent. Wednesday’s figures might give the drug maker the boost it so badly needs. Capital [...]
Linklaters’ Mr Tough Guy on why the next two months are key for the City September 28, 2009 THE legal profession might be going through one of its biggest slumps in a decade – but you would not know that looking at Linklaters’ senior partner David Cheyne. A small, dapper man, he is relaxed and all smiles as he sits in a tastefully furnished ground floor meeting room at the firm’s Silk Street [...]
NEW SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BUSINESS EDITOR ON STEEP LEARNING CURVE August 20, 2009 AS A replacement for Sky’s newest business recruit Mark Kleinman, a man with one of the fattest contact books in journalism, the appointment of Kamal Ahmed as Sunday Telegraph business editor was never going to sit well with his jilted rivals. Ahmed, currently head of comms at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a [...]
Miners give support as they rise to recoup their losses July 7, 2009 MINERS were the saviour of the FTSE 100 yesterday, offsetting falling oil stocks and disappointing UK industrial output data to keep the index flat, or just 7.91 points lower, at 4,187. Data showed that UK manufacturing output unexpectedly shrank in May, falling 0.5 per cent on the month, making it less likely the economy returned [...]
Miners give support as they rise to recoup their losses July 7, 2009 MINERS were the saviour of the FTSE 100 yesterday, offsetting falling oil stocks and disappointing UK industrial output data to keep the index flat, or just 7.91 points lower, at 4,187. Data showed that UK manufacturing output unexpectedly shrank in May, falling 0.5 per cent on the month, making it less likely the economy returned [...]
Consumer-related stocks to shed some light on spending June 14, 2009 RETAILERS will be very much in the spotlight again this week, with trading updates expected from the great and good of the supermarket world and retail sales data expected to shed more light on the high street picture. Tesco will get the ball rolling tomorrow when it releases its first quarter sales data, but is [...]
Cadbury sales get a credit crunch boost July 31, 2008 Credit crunch-induced comfort eating saw Cadbury beat forecasts with a 46 per cent rise in first-half profits and give an upbeat outlook, shrugging off fears of a consumer downturn. However, the Dairy Milk chocolate maker warned of possible further cost cuts and job losses as it faces an uncertain economic outlook and further rises in [...]
How Obama is having an impact on our view of US brands July 28, 2008 There are still those who would separate business and politics. But they are intimately connected. In a study about a year ago using data from YouGov’s BrandIndex and our tracking of attitudes to America, we examined whether the two were correlated. We found that there was indeed a clear link: as opinions of the US [...]