16 March 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ALL CHANGE: Rather more change than expected at HSBC which has been engaged in a search for a new chairman to replace seven year serving Douglas Flint – who was finance director before that. HSBC almost always has promoted its top men (they all have… Continue reading Issue 96: 2017 03 16: Week in Brief, Financial
Category: Week In Brief Financial
Issue 95: 2017 03 09:Week in Brief Financial
09 March 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY URGE TO BE LARGE: After the recovery from the 2008 recession and banking crash got underway, a positive meadow of small banks and quasi banks began to flower, filling the spaces left by the struggling big banks, especially the big four clearing banks (Barclays, RBS,… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09:Week in Brief Financial
Issue94: 2017 03 02:Week in Brief financial
02 March 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY STOCK NOT EXCHANGED: It seemed the perfect match, but, before they even got up the aisle, trouble began – and now it looks as though it’s all off. And probably to widespread relief. The merger between the London Stock Exchange and its Frankfurt equivalent and… Continue reading Issue94: 2017 03 02:Week in Brief financial
Issue 93:2017 02 23:Week in Brief Financial
23 February 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOT YET FULLY FUELLED: Anything to do with aerospace seems to be bad financial news at the moment. British Aerospace itself continues to struggle through, hoping that times are getting better; Rolls Royce last week announced a whopping loss – though said that underlying trading is… Continue reading Issue 93:2017 02 23:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Week in Brief Financial
16 February 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE – AGAIN: Last week it was regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press who got the Shaw Sheet Business Pages prize for optimism. We have a new contender this week for our award – Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, who announced a pretty startling… Continue reading Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Week in Brief Financial
09 February 2017 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: Regional newspapers used to be the thing to be in. National titles had high production and distribution costs, with uncertain advertising revenue, but regional newspapers derived a much higher proportion of revenue from advertising, especially from estate agents, and had… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Week in Brief Financial
02 February 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY COPPER BOTTOMED: Copper is one of those fascinating metals which whilst beautiful in colour and easily wrought for jewellery is principally used industrially, and on an increasingly large scale. Indeed, it is a metal without which we would struggle to make the modern world work,… Continue reading Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 89: 2017 01 26: Week in Brief Financial
26 January 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY POOR CONNECTION: BT’s share price dropped 16% in opening trading on Tuesday morning after the telecoms giant released updated guidance on trading in the current year. BT had already indicated that it was expecting a slow year for profits, as the continuing competition in the… Continue reading Issue 89: 2017 01 26: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 88:2017 01 19:Week in Brief Financial
19 January 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY PAID OFF: Good news from Rolls-Royce, whose business and share price has long been dogged by allegations of bribery in the procuring of contracts. Earlier this week Rolls announced that it had finally agreed a settlement with UK, Brazilian, and USA regulators to settle cases… Continue reading Issue 88:2017 01 19:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 87:2017 01 12: Week in Brief Financial
12 January 2017 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BOOTS: One of the largest retail chains in the UK, with shops in almost every street it often seems -there are 2,500 of them – is Boots, supplier of a wide mixture of goodies, from sweets to perfumes to medicines. Boots was taken over some… Continue reading Issue 87:2017 01 12: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 86 2017 01 05:Week in Brief Financial
05 January 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY GLOOMY START: First fashion retailer to comment on its winter trading results is Next, long regarded as an exemplar of that famously roller coaster sector. But last year its winter sales were poor and shocked the market; it vowed that this season it would get… Continue reading Issue 86 2017 01 05:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Week in Brief Financial
22 December 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY FOOD WARS: There seems to be no let-up in the struggle for market share, and for profits, between the supermarket chains. Tesco has announced that it has reversed its previous policy of selling off its supermarkets and then leasing them back, the idea of that… Continue reading Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Week in Brief Financial
Issue84:2016 12 15 :Week in Brief Financial
15 December 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS (SOUTH): This week the Office for National Statistics issued the results of its rolling survey of house prices. That showed that the long period of increasing prices seems to have come to an end – with static prices in some areas and a… Continue reading Issue84:2016 12 15 :Week in Brief Financial
