PPG (ppg) – Third time lucky for Akzo? PPG returns with further concessions and an increased offer worth €96.75 per Akzo ord Nielsen (nlsn) – Q1 FY17 results: US retail measurement continues to drag down the averages. Whitbread (wtb_l) – FY17 results: A cautious outlook statement blights a solid historic trading performance PPG […]
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French Presidential elections are stacked against the extremes, as was the intention. Round one provides the electorate with the illusion of choice as they favour their particular candidate. By round two however, the vote is more likely cast with a view to exclude their least favoured candidate. As long as one centrist candidate can get […]
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Due to a software update, our Analytics service is currently not being supported on Google’s Chrome browser, although remains available on most other leading browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. The service will be back up soon on Chrome.
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Gosh, with so much excitement going on in the world between the bombs, missile strikes and false flags it was easy to miss last week’s US non-farm payroll release for March. Not that one would have missed much. Having delivered its much anticipated second rate increase in the current tightening cycle, the Fed no longer […]
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How many leading marketers know what return they’re getting on their marketing investment? From P&G marketing honcho, Marc Pritchard’s gripes about poor transparency and accountability and a “crappy media chain”, one might surmise not many. If you can’t trust the data on who is being reached, any resulting ROI calculation derived from it is therefore […]
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Markets attempt to discount the future, which for the present often means trying to anticipate what the new POTUS is up to. Unfortunately, when he is failing to deliver what he promised (Healthcare and tax reform), but doing what he explicitly said he wouldn’t (bombing Syria) one might be forgiven for wanting to move into […]
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ENIRO AB Friday’s announcement warning that no agreement had been reached by the 31 March Deadline with the banks has been followed by this morning’s refinancing proposals where Convertible and Preference shareholders have basically the stark choice of agreeing to exchanging their rights for just common stock and then stumping up more cash in a […]
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Markets don’t seem to like Facebook. Those with access to the mean reversion analysis in the GrowthRater WebApp will be aware of the systematic relationship between organic revenue growth for these super-normal ‘growthers’ and how far out markets are reaching out to revert the growth rating and OpFCF yield back a market average. While also […]
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