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Greggs Slowing But Has A Strong Pipeline

Greggs plc GRG claims a good start to the year but not as good as last years. Total sales rose by 5.7% for the first 18 weeks and like for like sales in company managed shops were up by 3.7% but that is well down on 2015 when they rose by 6%. Hot drink sales […]

250,000 Euro – A Fine Too Far

Brussels has announced that countries which refuse to admit refugees will be fined 250,000 Euro per refugee. Within a matter of days that same unelected beaurocracy in Brussels announced that Turkey had failed to fulfil most of the conditions attached to its agreement about refugees with the EU but the EU was going ahead with […]

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh – Trading idea Friday 6th May

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh publishes trading ideas every day on his Routemaster blog on the blackcabbietrader.com website. His full watch list, exact entry points, stops loss placement etc. are all published in real time in The Knowledge area of the website. Today’s idea for Friday 6th May is Short WDC. More here

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh – Trading idea Thursday 5th May

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh publishes trading ideas every day on his Routemaster blog on the blackcabbietrader.com website. His full watch list, exact entry points, stops loss placement etc. are all published in real time in The Knowledge area of the website. Today’s idea for Wednesday 4th May is Short PBYI. More here

Curates Eggs For Breakfast Today

Morrisons MRW brings good news for the consumer if not for itself, with price deflation in the  quarter to 1st May reaching 2.6% and expected to continue. Compared to quarter 1 2015 Morrisons has done well. Like for like sales this year were up by 0.7% or 1.2% including fuel  compared to last years falls […]

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh – Trading idea Wednesday 4th May

BlackCabbieTrader John Walsh publishes trading ideas every day on his Routemaster blog on the blackcabbietrader.com website. His full watch list, exact entry points, stops loss placement etc. are all published in real time in The Knowledge area of the website. Today’s idea for Wednesday 4th May is Long AVY. More here

Sainsbury’s Doing Well in Financial Services – The Problem Is Food

J. Sainsbury SBRY has been forced to cut its final dividend, even if only by a small amount,0.1p or 1.2%, making a total cut for the year of of 8.3%. It claims a strong performance in clothing, general merchandise and financial services which, coming from a food store, indicates a problem or two with the food […]

Quoted Micro 3 May 2016

ISDX Markets operator WMC Retail Partners (WMC) reported a sharp fall in revenues and profit in 2015. That was due to the loss of the Old Spitalfields Market contract in January 2015. Revenues were reduced from £6.08m to £4.31m, while pre-tax profit dived from £369,000 to £13,000. That profit was after fair value movements in […]