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Hammerson management statements show little changed

10:31 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

Retail property developer Hammerson released a somewhat non-committal management statement. The company said: The period has seen a degree of …

Aviva gets 1bn from Delta Lloyd IPO

10:01 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

Aviva has raised just over a billion pounds from the sale of part of its holding in Delta LLoyd as …

ABF annual results: good growth, some sustainable

9:17 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

Associated British Foods’ 2009 results (the company has a September year end) showed it continued its growth with revenues up …

St James’s Place statement: not as good as it looks

8:07 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

St James’s Place announced that it has returned to growth in the third quarter. Total new business on an …

Rolls-Royce interim statement

7:42 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

Aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce issued a statement today that show little has changed since the half year results. Underlying profit …

Overnight markets

7:11 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

The Nikkei 225 is down 2.3% so far this morning, and other Asian markets have been mixed. The other …

Chloride H1 Results

10:52 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

UPS and generator supplier Chloride (that is a more comprehensible description of its business than the wording used in the …

Ryanair H1: expansion may cease

9:50 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

Ryanair’s profits (for the first half of the year) have recovered from last year’s low level, but are …

Yell refinancing agreed

8:58 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

Yells’ refinancing is now going the right way, with the vital 95% of creditors (by value of debt!) agreeing to …

Telecity continues growth

8:44 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

Telecity Group’s statement today seems to confirm that it is continuing the high growth seen in the first half …

House prices up in some regions

7:39 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

Hometrack’s latest house price survey shows prices up 0.2% over the previous month, but, not only is this …

Cable and Wireless demerger rumoured

6:46 a.m. Mon 02 Nov 2009

The latest in a series of press reports of a Cable and Wireless demerger comes from the FT which reports …

US long term unemployment

8:44 a.m. Sun 01 Nov 2009

Economist Mark Thoma has a posted a graph of long (6 months plus) unemployment in the US. The graph has …

WPP: Q3 results not encouraging

9 a.m. Fri 30 Oct 2009

WPP’s third quarter results showed continuing declines with revenues down 8.7% on the previous year (organic at constant …

Carpetright trading update

11:14 a.m. Wed 28 Oct 2009

Carpetright’s trading update appears to have disappointed the market despite the 5.6% rise in UK like-for-like sales in …

Wolfson Microelectronics Q3 results

10:34 a.m. Wed 28 Oct 2009

Wolfson Microelectronics’ third quarter was much as expected. The year has been very bad, even given the recession, but Wolfson …

BG Group Q3 results

9:53 a.m. Wed 28 Oct 2009

BG Group’s Q3 profits fell sharply, as was expected, on lower gas prices. The impact of prices is very …

Reckitt Benckiser Q3 results

7:48 a.m. Wed 28 Oct 2009

Reckitt Benckiser continued its seemingly unstoppable growth with sales up 7% at constant exchange rates and EPS up 26%. The …

BP Q3 results

8:14 a.m. Tue 27 Oct 2009

BP’s Q3 results were a little better than expected, and the shares are up 1.8% so far today …

Yell fails to agree with creditors

7:58 a.m. Tue 27 Oct 2009

Yell has, worryingly, been forced to extend its deadline for lenders to agree to its proposals for re-financing. This follows …

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