Accounting for around a third of display advertising and including most of the larger US brands, it should come as little surprise that UK TV advertising would be sensitive to US marketing investment decisions. For those looking at just UK domestic consumption, the rebound in UK TV NAR over the last couple of years may have […]
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US labor laws mean that US companies can hire and fire with relative impunity. Regardless of the longer term advisability of treating what ought to be a longer term resourse as swing capacity, it does afford equity markets with a near real time metric of US corporate investment and an effective lead indicator. When firm’s […]
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May represented another month of aenemic employment growth, with seasonally adjusted private sector additions of only 82k, after April’s revised +87k and expectations of around +150k. Including a further contraction in Govt employment (of -13k vs April’s -10k), overall monthly employment increased by a mere +69k vs April’s +77k and Q1’s average of +252k pm. […]
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Reed Elsevier                                    Plc (REL.LN)             NV (REN.AS) Share price                                       511p                           €9.0 Growth rating FY3                             +2.9%                              +2.8% Revenue CAGR FY1-3                        +3.6%                         +3.5% Target CAGR FY3                               […]
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Q1 organic revenue growth of +8.1% was ahead of our +7.5% forecast; albeit below the +12.0% advance in Q4 2012, but in part reflecting a -3ppts less favourable prior year comparative. By region, The Americas were the high point, increasing organic revenues by a class beating +20.2%, and this even before the $2.5bn GM account […]
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Q1 organic revenue growth of 4.0% was shy of our +4.4% forecast, albeit broadly in line with Q4’s +4.5% and WPP’s full year expectations of +4%. By region, the most noticeable change was from N. America where u/l growth of only +1.4% lagged its peers (>+3.5%) and our estimate of +4.4%. W. Europe however at +2.5% was better than […]
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Long overdue results out today which awaited the refinancing. Still looks like a bad mix of high risk and possibly no reward (at least for equity holders – Avoid  Johnston Press            (JPR-LN) Share price                               5.4p Growth rating F                     +4.8% Revenue CAGR FY1-3           -1.4% Target CAGR FY3                 +3.4% Target price                             1.0p Upside                                      -81% Recommendation:              AVOID […]
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