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Powell signals start of interest rates cuts at Jackson Hole
Thursday 29 Aug 2024With markets betting heavily the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates at its next meeting, chair Jerome Powell did not disappoint after delivering a dovish speech at the Jackson Hole symposium on 23 August. ‘The time has come for policy to adjust’ announced Powell, immediately sending...
Will UK shop price deflation open the door to a September rate cut from the Bank of England?
Thursday 29 Aug 2024UK shop prices experienced deflation for the first time in almost three years in August with a fall of 0.3%, according to the latest data from the monthly BRC-NIQ (British Retail Consortium-NielsenIQ Shop Price Index). The price deflation was driven by the non-food segment which came in at -1.5% in...
Temu parent PDD sends warning on Chinese consumers
Thursday 29 Aug 2024Missed second quarters expectations and soft growth guidance has sparked the biggest ever one-day sell-off in PDD Holdings (PDD:NASDAQ) , the parent of online shopping platforms Temu and Pinduoduo. ADR (American Depositary Receipts) in the company fell as much as 40% in intraday trading, eventually...
‘Spot The Dog’ survey shows sharp increase in poorly-performing UK funds
Thursday 22 Aug 2024It’s that time of year again when Evelyn Partners releases the summer edition of its ‘Spot The Dog’ report detailing the investment funds which continually deliver poor returns for their investors. As the authors point out, funds don’t make the list because their sectors are out of favour but...
Gooch & Housego outlook clouded by ‘prolonged’ customer de-stocking
Thursday 22 Aug 2024It has been a disappointing start to 2024 for luckless investors in specialist instrument and life-science device-maker Gooch & Housego (GHH) . The company’s share price dropped like a stone in mid-February when the Somerset-based manufacturer warned pre-tax profit for the year to September...
Why Bakkavor is making investors lots of dough
Thursday 22 Aug 2024Bakkavor’s (BAKK) shares have rebounded more than 80% to 153.5p year-to-date, investors regaining their appetite for the fresh prepared food provider amid evidence CEO Mike Edwards’ reset is paying off, an improving outlook with margin-crimping inflation moderating and with debt on the way down. In...
Find out what the top US investors have been buying and selling
Thursday 22 Aug 2024It seems wise to follow what the most successful investors have been buying and selling. US Investment managers are required to file quarterly 13F reports detailing their holdings which gives investors a small insight into what the gurus have been doing. Second-quarter filings for the end of June...
Pressure on Nvidia ahead of fiscal 2025 second quarter amid Blackwell delays
Thursday 22 Aug 2024Wall Street anticipates another strong quarter for Nvidia (NVDA:NASDAQ) as investors’ favourite chip stock prepares to release fiscal second-quarter 2025 results (28 Aug), so the pressure is on. There’s been no sign that demand for the firm’s high-end graphics processing units is waning, the...
Raspberry Pi dishes up new products just two months after its IPO
Thursday 15 Aug 2024Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi (RPI) , the designer and maker of low-cost computing equipment, announced the release this week of Pico 2, a new single-board computer built on RP2350, its new secure microcontroller platform. The new microcontroller offers faster processors, more memory, better...
Why engineering outfit Spirax Group is in a downward spiral
Thursday 15 Aug 2024West Country engineering firm Spirax Group (SPX) is being shunned by investors after its first-half results. The numbers themselves were pretty disappointing but more damaging was the downgraded guidance for 2024 and the implications this has for 2025. The company moved from mid-to-high-single-...