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Bond yield blowout
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300% share price gain on US oily
Thursday 17 Nov 2016AIM-quoted Mosman Oil & Gas ( MSMN:AIM ) raised eyebrows when it trebled to 2p a share on the morning of Donald Trump’s election victory. As well as signing a deal to buy an oil well in Texas, shares may have been boosted by the President-elect’s support for fossil fuels, the FT reported...
2-year high: Palm oil prices
Thursday 17 Nov 2016Palm oil prices are around two-year highs at $722 a tonne as output in Malaysia, a key market for the commodity, declined 2% in October. Shares in UK-quoted producers Dekeloil ( DKL:AIM ) and REA Holdings ( RE. ) have both been boosted by the news while MP Evans ( MPE ) saw a takeover offer from...
11.6% – Money supply growth hits 7-year high
Thursday 17 Nov 2016Global money supply is expanding at its fastest rate since 2009, according to economist Simon Ward at asset manager Henderson. Money supply was an indicator followed closely by analysts from the inflationary 1970s into the mid 2000s – until its relationship with economic growth appeared to break...
1m tonnes of sugar produced by ABF
Thursday 17 Nov 2016Sugar prices are surging and helping Associated British Food ( ABF ) prove the benefits of its diversified business mode. It produced 1m tonnes of the commodity in the last 12 months. Assembling two unusual businesses under one roof – budget clothing chain Primark and its specialist foods business...
30 planes signed up for in-flight wifi
Thursday 17 Nov 2016Satellite operator Inmarsat ( ISAT ) secured a deal with Austrian Airways to deliver its Global Xpress passenger broadband solution. Among only a few commercial suppliers of satellite connectivity, Inmarsat’s geostationary satellites surround the earth and can fire spot beams to antenna located on...
16 gold miners in FTSE top 20
Thursday 17 Nov 2016Gold miners dominated the FTSE leaderboard in early trading after Donald Trump’s victory – 16 of them featured among the top 20 gainers. A traditional knee-jerk move to political uncertainty, investors piled in to precious metal producers after the result, only for many gold stocks to quickly go...
FTSE indices' dividend yields
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3.3 million square metres
Thursday 10 Nov 2016This is the size of the warehouse portfolio being acquired by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC in a €2.4bn deal with US private equity firm TPG. GIC is buying P3 Logistics Parks in order to tap into the e-commerce boom with heavy demand for warehousing space from online retailers such as Amazon...
362.6bn: digital coupons
Thursday 10 Nov 2016This is a staggeringly large number but if the technology forecasting boffins at Juniper Research are right, there will be enough digital coupons and vouchers by 2021 for a deal a week for every man, woman and child on earth. This is already a hot market with 225bn vouchers estimated to have...