UK Investor Magazine podcast – Taylor Wimpey, China and UK Banks with Alan Green

Alan Green joins the UK Investor Magazine for a broad discussion of UK Banks, China and results from Taylor Wimpey. We discuss Natwest #NWG, LLoyds #LLOY, Taylor Wimpey #TW. and Mode #MODE. Natwest and Lloyds reported after we looked at Barclays results on last week’s podcast and where largely similar in terms of earnings growth […]

Ian Pollard – SFO Having Another Bash At Barclays

Barclays BARC has now been charged by the Serious Fraud Office with an additional charge to that which was brought against it in June 2017 but this time relating to the loan itself rather than simply an allegation of providing unlawful financial assistance in 2008. It will be interesting to see who comes out of […]

Barclays Third Quarter Nightmare

Barclays plc BARC suffered a nightmarish third quarter but claims it was part of an industry wide trend. It has had to admit that it is not delivering the economic performance of which it is capable but claims it has the confidence to assert that it will start to do so in 1919 -20. As […]

Corporate news review Friday 28th July 2017

Barclays BARC – Reports a 13% increase in half-year PBT to £2,341m reflecting materially lower non-core losses of £647m (H116: £1,904m), while core PBT fell 25% to £2,988m impacted by PPI charges of £700m (H116: £400m). EPS came in at 11.8p, while tangible NAV fell to 284p (Dec 2016: 290p) as profit from continuing operations […]