Coca-Cola HBC shares shoot up as profit fizzes August 14, 2015 COCA-COLA Hellenic, a leading bottler of the iconic beverage, beat forecasts yesterday to send its shares fizzing higher. The company sold just over one billion unit cases in the first six months of the year, it said yesterday. This marked growth of 3.8 per cent compared with the same period last year. It lifted its [...]
Joblessness data and retail figures focus of quiet week – London Report August 9, 2015 THE CORPORATE results season has past its peak, but the week ahead is due to see some big financial news nonetheless, including UK unemployment figures on Wednesday. Tomorrow retail sales data will be published, while on Friday construction industry output figures will be out. Prudential is reporting its half-year interims tomorrow after chief executive Tidjane [...]
Best of the Brokers for 19 May 2015 May 18, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com SMITHS GROUP (SMIN) Panmure Gordon reiterate its “Sell” rating on the group, with a target price of 880p. Smiths outlook statement will detail higher-than-expected decline in John Crane and Interconnect and a reversal in Flex-Tek, offsetting expected improvement in Medical and Detection. BOVIS [...]
Bank of England to reveal interest rate and inflation report – London Report May 10, 2015 THE BANK of England (BoE) will announce the latest Bank rate today, with economists expecting it to remain at its historic 0.5 per cent low. On Wednesday the BoE will announce its widely-watched inflation report. Employment and unemployment figures are also due that day and are expected to show a strong market. The corporate calendar [...]
Coke bottler hit by exposures in foreign markets February 18, 2015 BEVERAGE bottler Coca-Cola HBC faces tough challenges in 2015, analysts have warned, after the firm reported a 5.3 per cent drop in sales revenue for 2014, from €1.57bn (£1.16bn) to €1.51bn. Volumes of unit cases sold also fell, by 2.8 per cent from 2.06bn in 2013 to 2bn, while net profit plunged by 11.4 per cent, [...]
FTSE stalls on route to record high after Greek talks falter – London Report February 18, 2015 After touching a 15-year peak yesterday morning, the FTSE 100 ended the trading day unchanged. London’s blue-chip index hit 6,921.3 at one point, but then fell back to close at 6,898.08 – just 0.05 points down on the previous day. The index’s record closing high of 6,930.2 was reached in December 1999, while the record [...]
Britain close to deflation as oil drags on prices – London Report February 15, 2015 CONSUMER price inflation is expected to have fallen to a record low, with figures out this week likely to show it reached 0.3 per cent in January. The rate was 0.5 per cent in December – at a low since comparable records began in 1989 – and it is forecast to have fallen further, as [...]
Ukraine ceasefire boost for Coca Cola bottler helps FTSE – London Report February 12, 2015 COCA-COLA bottler HBC led the UK’s top share index higher yesterday, after news of a general ceasefire from Sunday in Ukraine’s east. The world’s second-largest bottler of Coca-Cola drinks, which counts Russia as its biggest market, surged 6.23 per cent after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the ceasefire agreement following peace talks in Minsk with [...]
FTSE stays fresh but Coca-Cola HBC stock goes worse than flat – London Report January 26, 2015 THE FTSE closed at a fresh four-month high yesterday helped by a rebound in energy shares, although hefty falls in Greece-exposed Coca-Cola HBC capped gains. Heavyweight oil & gas majors BP, BG and Shell rebounded sharply in the afternoon after the secretary-general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), Abdullah al-Badri, said he [...]
FTSE tumbles on Tesco share price turmoil as banks take a hit – London Report December 9, 2014 Britain’s main equity index yesterday fell to one-month lows, hit by supermarket retailer Tesco’s fourth profit warning this year. Shares in Tesco at one stage fell as much as 17 per cent to their lowest in around 14 years, wiping some £2.6bn off the firm’s market capitalisation. It later regained some ground to close 6.6 [...]