Ian Pollard – easy Hotel trading strongly

easy Hotel plc EZH Strong trading experienced in the previous year has continued through the year to the end of September. The groups owned hotels have significantly outperformed both the competition and the wider OK hotel market. Franchised hotel have also traded strongly especially in continental Europe.In 2018 four new owned hotels will be opened […]

Andrew Hore – Quoted Micro 22 January 2018

NEX EXCHANGE Capital for Colleagues (CFCP) reported a decline in full year revenues from £560,000 to £372,000 and there was no repeat of the realised gains on investments in the previous year. There was an increase in unrealised gains from £71,000 to £317,000. However, there was a £1.32m investment impairment. This meant that a profit […]

HSBC – Positive Jaws And An Urivalled Footprint ! – A fish with feet !!

HSBC Holdings HSBA announces that a further share buy back programme of up to 2bn pounds will start shortly and will be completed in the second half of 2017. The interim dividend remain unchanged after a rise of 12% in adjusted half year profit before tax, following a 3% rise in revenue. Global banking performed […]

Burberry Fails To Benefit From Collapse In Sterling

Burberry BRBY claims that its ambitious revenue growth plans are on track with a 4% drop in revenue for the six months to the end of September. Presumably it can find some form of logic in that but if there is it certainly seems to have escaped the CEO who produces a wordy paragraph of […]

Rio Tinto – The First Green Shoots of a Mining Recovery ?

Rio Tinto RIO The first green shoots of a recovery in mining may have been seen in RIO’s first quarter with iron ore shipments up by 11% and global iron ore production up by 13% on a year ago.  Bauxite production also rose by 6% and aluminium by 10%.  Mined copper was down 2% on the […]