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Watches of Switzerland update raises questions over full-year outlook
Thursday 11 Sep 2025It has been a tumultuous 2025 for posh timepiece seller Watches of Switzerland Group (WOSG) , with the shares having lost 40% of their value as of the end of last week. Fears over the impact of hefty (39%) US tariffs on Swiss exports, including high-end watches, have seen the stock price hit its...
Animal vaccine maker Genus chalks up another major milestone
Thursday 11 Sep 2025Shares in animal genetics company Genus (GNS) have risen 75% this year after a succession of positive trading updates. In January, the firm said first-half trading to the end of December had been ahead of expectations meaning profit for the year to June would be at the top end of forecasts, sending...
Worse-than-expected US payrolls data puts ball in Federal Reserve’s court
Thursday 11 Sep 2025Investors were hoping for more of a ‘Goldilocks’ US non-farm payrolls report last week – neither too hot nor too cold, showing moderate growth in hiring – but what they got on 5 September was worse than expected. The US job market slowed over the summer, adding just 22,000 jobs in August – a...
Why Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay deal will spark debate
Thursday 11 Sep 2025The board of Tesla (TSLA:NASDAQ) is asking investors to approve a record pay package which could deliver Elon Musk as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade. The deal will allow Musk to receive instalments of shares if Tesla hits a series of market capitalisation and business operational...
Victorian Plumbing plan to revive homewares brand raises serious doubts
Thursday 04 Sep 2025Sometimes reviving an old brand can be fun – like Starburst sweets being rebranded as Opal Fruits for the summer – but there’s usually a good reason why brands vanish into obscurity and stay there. So, when Victorian Plumbing (VIC) announced it was reviving the MFI brand – which collapsed into...
Bank shares under pressure after think tank proposes ‘windfall’ levy
Thursday 04 Sep 2025Shares in UK banks dropped last on 29 August after the publication of a report by the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) recommending the government introduce a new tax on ‘excess’ profits generated since the pandemic. Shares in Barclays (BARC) fell 2.2% to 360.4p while Lloyds (LLOY) fell...
‘Magnificent Seven’ continue to beat earnings forecasts (mostly)
Thursday 04 Sep 2025Now that Nvidia (NVDA:NASDAQ) , the world’s largest company by market cap, has reported earnings, we can weigh up how well the ‘Magnificent Seven’ did in terms of delivering on forecasts (you can read Steven Frazer’s in-depth look at Nvidia’s earnings further on in this week’s mag). On average,...
Carnival shares cruise to new multi-year high on record results
Thursday 04 Sep 2025They say good things come to those who wait, and that appears to be the case for investors in cruise line operator Carnival (CCL) as the shares hit a post-pandemic high last week. In mid-June, the firm posted a strong second-quarter trading update showing better-than-expected revenue ($1.51 billion...
Ibstock shares plumb new 12-month lows following profit warning
Thursday 28 Aug 2025Clay and concrete building products supplier Ibstock (IBST) plumbed new 12-month lows recently, adding to losses which has seen the shares lose a quarter of their value. The shares slumped 16% in June after the brick maker issued a profit warning and lowered full year EBITDA (earnings before...
Pop Mart shares soar to highest since listing in 2020 on latest toy craze
Thursday 28 Aug 2025We’re reasonably sure if we were to take a straw poll of Shares readers, few would have heard of Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International (9992:HKG) , and fewer still would have heard of its signature product, LaBuBu, described by the company as ‘a vibrant collection of designer characters that...