The FTSE 100 closed down slightly today. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are HSBC, Whitbread, Metro Bank, St. James’s Place and Hargreaves Lansdown. Read the Tuesday 30 April Business Live blog below.
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— Geffen report on securities settlement reforms imminent.
— Investors pour cold water on Hunt’s GB ISA plans.
— Car loan redress will have “negligible impact” on most major banks.
Good morning! Welcome to Friday — we made it, everyone.
To help you, dear readers, to the weekend we have plenty of great gear, including a report on the U.K.’s plans for securities settlement.
Elsewhere, Switzerland has been urged to bump up banking protections, we’ve got news about the U.K.
Shares of Icahn Enterprises, the firm led by the billionaire financier Carl C. Icahn, fell as much as 30 percent on Friday after the saber-rattling investor, under pressure from a short seller, said his firm would halve its quarterly dividend and refocus on the style of activist investing that brought him his fame and fortune.
The announcement comes three months after Hindenburg Research, the short seller, released a report questioning the financials of Icahn Enterprises, and whether it had the
The FTSE 100 is up 0.2 per cent in early trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today at HSBC, BP, Greggs, Dominos, Robert Walters, Travis Perkins, Aston Martin, Watches of Switzerland, Weir Group and Diageo. Read the Tuesday 1 July Business Live blog below.
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Trotz eines schwierigen Starts – der Start in eine globale Finanzkrise – nähert sich der Investmentfonds M&G Global Dividend seinem 15-jährigen Bestehen, hat er geliefert, was er versprochen hatte. Nämlich ein Strom wachsender Einnahmen für
Der Scottish Investment Trust wird nach 134 Jahren des Handels in die Verwaltung gehen, nachdem eine Überprüfung ergab, dass sein Portfolio mit unterdurchschnittlicher Leistung mit dem Rivalen JPMorgan Global Growth & Income fusioniert werden sollte, um einen 1,2-Milliarden-Pfund-Fonds zu schaffen.
Der Trust hat in den letzten zehn Jahren sowohl aus Sicht des Aktienkurses als auch der Gesamtrendite deutlich hinter den global ausgerichteten Mitbewerbern abgeschnitten, und sein Vorstand sagte, dass eine Fusion mit JGGI im besten Interesse der Anleger sei.
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