The cup may overflow at Greene King June 25, 2012 INVESTORS will be hoping that final results from Greene King will allow them to raise a glass in celebration, with the company building on good figures for the fourth quarter. Sales at this particular publican have outstripped rivals, which could mean that some special figures are brewing. IG Index quotes 529p-532p for Greene King. The [...]
LOWER OIL PRICES LIKELY TO REMAIN AS GROWTH SLOWS June 25, 2012 SENIOR MARKET STRATEGIST, GFT LAST week, Brent crude oil traded below $88.50 – a level last seen in November 2010. Back then, crude was in the early stages of a rally which would take it above $126 four months later. The rally was driven, to a great extent, by the US Federal Reserve’s second round [...]
Lenovo shares hit over fears for PC market June 25, 2012 Shares of Lenovo Group, the world’s No.2 PC maker, fell by more than six per cent to a more than four-month intraday low on market concern over the outlook for the PC market amid the global economic slowdown. Lenovo’s shares fell as much as 6.3 per cent to HK$6.26 in afternoon trade, extending earlier losses [...]
Fairy Fox float to hit London this summer June 24, 2012 FAIRY Fox, the Chinese high-street clothing brand, has turned its eyes to the west and plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) as soon as late July. “AIM is particularly suitable for where Fairy Fox is in its life cycle at the moment and its current projection of growth,” a spokesperson for the [...]
Windows 8 on new Huawei phone June 21, 2012 Chinese phone maker Huawei yesterday confirmed it will launch a smartphone later this year on the new Windows 8 platform, competing with Windows 8 handsets made by Nokia, Samsung and HTC. Huawei, which makes cheaper smartphones, is pushing into the high-end market.
Eurozone debt crisis slows Asian progress June 21, 2012 THE FALLOUT from the Eurozone crisis has now spread to East Asia including the world’s second largest economy, according to data released yesterday. The HSBC Chinese manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for June dipped to a seven-month low of 48.1. Any value below 50 marks a contraction, and yesterday’s result means the index has now [...]
Daimler in deal with Deripaska to produce more cars in Russia June 21, 2012 DAIMLER has announced a major new deal that will see its vehicles manufactured in Russia for the first time. The contract with the German car firm will see hundreds of vehicles made at the main plant of Russia’s GAZ company. Daimler is to invest more than €100m and Gaz €90m in the project. Start of [...]
China is set to fund UK nuclear June 19, 2012 CHINA may soon have a major stake in one of the UK’s biggest nuclear projects after two Chinese state firms teamed up with Western players to bid for the £15bn Horizon joint venture. Areva and Westinghouse are believed to have picked separate Chinese nuclear firms to help fund bids for Horizon, which was put on [...]
What Britain must do to win back investors from a surging Germany June 19, 2012 BRITAIN is on the verge of losing its foreign direct investment (FDI) crown. After a 15 year record as the leading European destination, the investment tide has begun to flow away. While the UK remains Europe’s top destination for inward projects, we will lose this crown to Germany, within two years, unless action is taken. [...]
Cheap government credit isn’t the magic bullet for our future growth June 17, 2012 SOMETIMES life sucks. Sometimes, one day we are active athletic people, running and playing squash, and the next we experience a bad back injury and cannot run fast or twist any more. When such things happen, it is tempting to believe that there must be a solution, some magic bullet that will restore us quickly [...]