HMV has a hard time. And so do the company’s investors. The Christmas quarter should have showed the best performance of the retailers’ whole year, but instead, HMV disappointed with a huge drop in revenues. So what happened? In the last 10 weeks to 1 January 2011, sales at HMV fell significantly – at shops [...]
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UK Food Retail To See Benign 2H10/11 – Citigroup
Posted in Business, Europe, European MarketScope, France, Market News, Stefanie Linhardt, United Kingdom, tagged Carrefour, Citigroup, Europe, European MarketScope, food retail, France, Inflation, international markets, linkedin, markets, MarketScope, Morrison, Sainsbury's, Tesco, United Kingdom on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of today’s Special studies I have written for S&P European MarketScope: UK FOOD RETAIL TO SEE BENIGN 2H10/11 – CITIGROUP – original published 09 September 2010, 10:17 GMT Citigroup expects benign 2H10/11 results for UK’s food retailers as food inflation picks up. However, adds that in 1Q the UK VAT rise is a risk factor. Says [...]
Should investment and personal banking be separated?
Posted in Business, Finance, Media, Politics, Stefanie Linhardt, United Kingdom, tagged Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Alistair Darling, banks, BBA, Brian Capon, British Bankers Association, Chancellors' debate, Citi, Citigroup, Conservative Party, George Osborne, investment banking, KPMG, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, linkedin, OECD, personal banking, retail banking, Tim Congdon, UK Banks Performance Benchmarking Survey, Vikram Pandit, Vince Cable on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The investment banking business has become a cartel according to Vince Cable – rewarming the discussion about retail and investment banking. “In order to make our banking system safe, we have got to break them up,” Cable proposed in last night’s debate between the three want-to-be-next-Chancellors. The topic has been a hot potato for a while [...]
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New York Market Commentary – 18 Oct 2010
Posted in Business, European MarketScope, Finance, London, Market News, Stefanie Linhardt, United States, tagged AIA, AIG, American International Group, Apple, Basel III, Ben Bernanke, Citi, Citigroup, CNBC, commodities, Fed, Halliburton, Hasbro, IBM, linkedin, markets, Mattel, NAHB housing survey, New York, Northeast Utilities, NSTAR, pre-market commentary, Richard Fisher, United States, Wall Street, WTI crude, Zions Bancorp on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s New York Pre-Market Commentary I have written for S&P European MarketScope: New York Market Commentary – original published 18 October 2010, 13:11 GMT US futures point to a mixed start on Wall Street, as investors remain cautious over the state of the economy and ahead of a flurry of earnings results including APPLE’s and IBM’s. Meanwhile, Dallas [...]
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