Spire healthcare shares plummet on lowered full-year outlook November 12, 2015 Shares in UK-based hospital group Spire Healthcare fell in trading this morning, after it cut its revenue guidance for the full year. The company said it expects revenue for 2015 to grow by between three and 3.7 per cent compared to last year, which is a decline from its previous forecast of between four and six per cent. [...]
Engineering company IMI’s share price is tanking after warning on profits November 12, 2015 Specialist engineering company IMI's share price is plummeting today after warning on profits. IMI's share price was 7.87 per cent down at 902.5p per share in mid morning trading. In an interim management statement released today the company said that during the third quarter "economic and market conditions have continued to be challenging". The news comes [...]
European Banking Authority decrees role-based allowances do count as bonuses – and must be subject to a cap November 12, 2015 Bad news for January's bonus season: the European Banking Authority (EBA) has made the controversial ruling that role-based allowances do count as bonuses – and therefore must be subject to a cap. In a paper published today, the EBA ruled that role-based allowances, which many UK institutions have used to sidestep bonus cap rules set out by Brussels in [...]
Apple working on iPhone-to-iPhone payments November 12, 2015 Apple doesn’t want to become a bank, insists chief exec Tim Cook, shutting down longstanding rumours that the tech giant will be pushing into the financial services industry. But on the same day, a new report suggests that Apple has big plans for a new mobile payment system: one that would allow iPhone users to [...]
China’s Singles Day 2015: Alibaba broke sales records and made £9.4bn in 24 hours November 12, 2015 Alibaba just smashed sales records for China’s Singles Day, netting £9.4bn in sales in just 24 hours. Singles Day is China’s biggest shopping holiday, and yesterday’s results broke all previous records, as the e-commerce giant revealing its sales figures showed. The company passed last year’s record-breaking revenue of £6.12bn by half day yesterday, and landed [...]
The Co-operative Bank swerves £120m fine despite being slammed by Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority for “serious and wide-ranging failings” November 12, 2015 The Co-operative Bank has been slammed by two of the UK's biggest regulators for “serious and wide-ranging failings” over its control and risk management between 2009 and 2013 – but has managed to swerve being fined. The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found that the Co-op [...]
Rolls-Royce share price tumbles as it warns profits will be at lower end of expectations after “sharply weaker” demand November 12, 2015 Shares in troubled engineer Rolls-Royce opened more than 20 per cent lower, at 528p, as it warned profits will be at the lower end of expectations in 2015, thanks to "sharply weaker " demand. After a review of operations by chief executive Warren East, the company said this morning that profit headwinds in 2016 are likely to [...]
Currency headwinds eat up SABMiller’s profits ahead of the megabrew deal with AB InBev November 12, 2015 A strong dollar took a large chunk out of SABMiller’s results, and despite strong growth in emerging markets the beer giant posted drooping profits ahead of the megabrew deal with AB InBev. The figures SABMiller posted underlying growth, with group net producer revenue growing by four per cent to $12.69bn at constant currency rates in [...]
House purchase lending jumps to seven-year for October November 12, 2015 Mortgage lending reached its highest level for the month of October in seven years, new data released today shows, as low inflation rates and rising wages helped keep consumer confidence levels high. Overall house purchase lending approvals reached 72,409 in October, up by 5.1 per cent on the previous month and 21.9 per cent ahead [...]
Megabrew is here: Now that SABMiller and AB InBev have reached a deal the real hangover begins November 11, 2015 Anheuser-Busch InBev’s £71bn takeover of SABMiller, the biggest ever British corporate merger, is poised to leave a bitter taste in the mouth with thousands of job cuts, a de-listing from the London Stock Exchange and the shuttering of SAB’s Mayfair offices all in the pipeline. AB InBev said the deal, confirmed yesterday, will result in $1.4bn (£920m) in efficiency [...]