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Read More »Royal Mail sells last 3 Nine Elm plots for £112m
Royal Mail on Monday said it had exchanged contracts to sell the last three remaining plots on its Nine Elms Park site to London Square for £111.2m. Profits from the sale would be used in line with Royal Mail’s capital allocation policy, with around £35m to be reinvested into the …
Read More »Royal Mail sees higher H1 profit as revenues rise 8%
Royal Mail said it expected a rise in first half profits despite rising costs as the pandemic-driven boom in parcel delivery from online shopping continued to drive revenue growth. The letter and parcel carrier said revenues climbed 8.2% to £5.1bn in the five months to August. It added that it …
Read More »Polymetal puts $0.5m into new joint venture
Polymetal announced an initial investment of $0.5m in exchange for a 35% stake in a joint venture with a junior on Tuesday, holding an exploration license for the Pekinskaya area of Russia’s Taimyr Peninsula, which adjoins the existing Taimyr joint venture. The FTSE 100 company said it may acquire up …
Read More »Debenhams to be wound down as JD Sports ends rescue talks
It was a grim day for the UK retail sector as beleaguered department store chain Debenhams was set to be liquidated following failed rescue talks with JD Sports, just hours after Philip Green’s Arcadia retail group went into administration. Debenhams said on Tuesday that it will continue to trade through …
Read More »US consumer confidence rises in October, University of Michigan says
The American consumer grew a bit more confidence in October, the results of the most closely followed gauge for confidence across the country revealed. A preliminary reading for the University of Michigan‘s consumer confidence index in October improved to a reading of 81.2 after printing at 80.4 in September. Economists …
Read More »US manufacturing and services sector PMIs jump in July
Activity levels at both US factories and among services sector firms picked up substantially in August, according to the results of two closely-followed surveys. IHS Markit‘s manufacturing sector Purchasing Managers’ Index jumped from July’s reading of 50.9 to 53.6 for August (consensus: 51.5). Services activity also accelerated, with the PMI …
Read More »TBC Bank deputy CEO, CFO Shagidze to leave
TBC Bank said on Tuesday that deputy chief executive officer and chief financial officer Giorgi Shagidze plans to leave at the end of the year “to explore other opportunities in a different field and/or geography”. The bank, which will begin a search for a replacement, said Shagidze will stay on …
Read More »Canaccord Genuity hikes target for Intermediate Capital Group
Analysts at Canaccord Genuity hiked their target price for shares of Intermediate Capital Group after revising their earnings estimates for the alternative asset manager fir the next three years higher. The main reason for the target price change was the higher price-to-earnings multiple now assigned by the broker to the …
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