Atlantic Capital Markets Month Ahead – Keep Your Shorts On In September

Alan Green and John Woolfitt, Director at Atlantic Capital Markets discuss the month ahead. We discuss the US Fed August meeting, and indications from Fed boss Jerome Powell that the administration was prepared to ride with higher inflation around 2%. The markets seems to translate as low interest rates for years to come…John gives his […]

WPP Slumps, Costain Excited

Costain Group COST is enjoying exciting times as the countries energy, water and transport infrastructure continues to be upgraded. The interim dividend is to be increased by 15% to 4.3p after revenue for the half year to 30th June rose by nearly 25%.  The half year ended with a record order book, 90% of which […]

Record year for Costain vs Stagecoach slowdown

Costain (COST) is raising its final dividend by 16% after  strong trading in 2015  saw underlying operating  profit also up by 16%.  The year ended with a record order book, 11 % up on 2014 and over 90 of which are repeat orders. The share price fell back from its September peak of 395p to […]