UK supermarkets are a bit like the beer they used to sell; bland and too many of them. Tesco however is working on that one as it culls its less profitable sites and brands (including the #4 UK brand, Carlsberg) to restore its growth and margin metrics, even it means from a lower base of […]
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Guidance slashed and CEO dumped. Shares bounce however on appointment of break-up artist and more layoffs. Up until today (6 Oct 2015) the narrative of a weakening underlying performance from macro and fx headwinds (particularly around Brazil and Agriculture) was trumping the speculative aspirations of activist shareholders such as Peltz and an EPS guidance […]
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Perhaps the successful Mail Online should stick to celebrity gossip as its foray into serious issues seems prone to schlock. While lacking the pithy wit of a News of the World headline, the Mail Online’s recent article on China’s alleged mistreatment of Falun Gong certainly pulled few punches with its title: “Thousands of religious prisoners […]
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LoL – Yellen chickens out of hike interest rate as expected. Indeed, one FOMC member appears to be expecting negative rates. Just confirms that the Fed has no idea how to get the patient off the hopium. This party is going to have to carry on until we finally get a currency collapse. With […]
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Well that’s okay, according to a recent survey by Bloomberg, most economists don’t think the next recession will be until 2018. As most of these are employed by banks with a vested interest to pump shares, this is most convenient, at least on two fronts. Firstly, the very low risk of an early recession is […]
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Will she or won’t she? It seems with Fed interest rate policy remaining the only game in town, strategists are stuck with trying to second guess Yellen’s next move at the forthcoming FOMC on 16-17 September. Of course we’ve been here before and we can look at all the evidence and data under the sun […]
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In a reversal of what happened in Valens’ day, the migrant flow is now going north from the Danube towards Germania rather than south, although there is a new empire that is to be shaken by such a move and that is no longer ruled from the south. Having wagged her imperial finger at the […]
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For more see: www.growthrater.com Having adopted a “shape for growth motto†for 2015, GfK is struggling to deliver, with its core syndicated electronic research business hit hard in Q2 from the backwash from weakening Chinese demand. While the group is doggedly maintaining its full year 2015 guidance to deliver growth in organic revenues and […]
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