Back NCC’s cyber security recovery

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Manchester-based NCC (NCC) is showing genuine signs of
stability and recovery after a...

Thu, 23/11/2017 - 00:00


Accrol: back and kicking up a stink

Toilet rolls-to-industrial wipes manufacturer Accrol (ACRL:AIM) has returned from suspension on AIM (20 Nov) and announced a £18m placing to shore up its...

Thu, 23/11/2017 - 00:00


What's going on with Royal Mail?

An improvement in Royal Mail’s (RMG) financial performance risks being overshadowed by the continuing threat of labour strikes.

On 16 November the company...

Thu, 23/11/2017 - 00:00


Lower living costs and higher wages centre stage at this year’s Budget

Chancellor Philip Hammond was very upbeat in his Budget statement despite downgraded OBR forecasts for the UK economy. Productivity growth and business investment estimates were...

Thu, 23/11/2017 - 00:00


The winners and losers on the stock market from Hammond’s Budget

Shares in housebuilders fell after the Budget announcement which failed to deliver the kind of radical changes to planning or extended financial support desired by...

Thu, 23/11/2017 - 00:00


Market movers post Budget – stocks, bonds & currencies

Stocks

“When Mr Hammond stood up the FTSE 100 was trading at 7,448. An hour later, when he had finished, it was almost exactly unchanged,”...

Wed, 22/11/2017 - 16:26


Hammond’s hamstrung budget

“The lack of any blockbuster Budget announcements for UK savers shows that Chancellor Hammond is hamstrung by a crippling combination of worsening growth forecasts, a...

Wed, 22/11/2017 - 15:07


SSP provides investors with the full picnic

“Better-than-expected full-year profits, a 50% increase in its dividend to 8.1p and a £100 million special dividend (worth around another 21p per share) mean that...

Wed, 22/11/2017 - 11:25


How to assess whether infrastructure funds can be a useful portfolio asset

The concrete word “infrastructure” is regularly bandied about in conversations that cover the more nebulous term “productivity,” as economists and analysts alike try to fathom...

Wed, 22/11/2017 - 10:15


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