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WideCells aims to take advantage of lucrative cord blood market
Thursday 20 Jul 2017Stem cell services provider WideCells ( WDC ) hopes to take advantage of 3m cord blood samples held in storage in 500 facilities globally. Cord blood remains in the placenta and contains stem cells, which can be used to treat genetic disorders. WideCells currently has agreements with global...
Housing market remains resilient
Thursday 20 Jul 2017The number of property sales agreed in June 2017 increased by 4.6% year-on-year according to the latest survey by property website Rightmove ( RMV ) . Cumulative sales agreed in the first six months of 2017 were only down 0.4% from the same period of 2016 despite a rush of transactions early last...
Robot workforce on the march
Thursday 20 Jul 2017There has been lots of talk about robots taking British jobs and leaving people underemployed. More than 4.5m retail, manufacturing and admin roles are at risk of automation replacement, according to data from business consultancy PwC. That’s anywhere from 37% to 46% of those industry workforces...
Worst Performing Engineers
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Best Performing UK Engineers
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Surge in butter price points to looming supply shortage
Thursday 13 Jul 2017The price of butter rocketed by 14.1% in June, according to the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Cheese and skim milk power prices also rose by significant amount. The spike has been attributed by the FAO to limited export availability of dairy products in all major...
Odd share price activity ahead of 19% of UK takeovers in 2016
Thursday 13 Jul 2017Unusual share price trades were found to have happened on the eve of 19% of all takeover announcements for UK-listed companies in 2016, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It says the activity does not necessarily show the level of insider trading, which is when someone buys or...
Australia cuts export earnings forecast by A$13bn
Thursday 13 Jul 2017Australia has slashed A$13bn from its expected export earnings in the current fiscal year as a result of lower commodity prices. Approximately half of this downgrade is down to iron ore where the country has reduced its forecast export earnings by A$7.2bn to $65bn. Overall resource and energy...
3,142% gain made on Domino’s
Thursday 13 Jul 2017Quick eats chain Domino’s Pizza ( DOM ) has been a stunning success for investors over the years, returning 3,142% on its original IPO. That took place in late 1999, in the middle of the dotcom boom, at 50p per share. That equates to 8.38p today, once you adjust for share splits. A mere £500 stake...
Soaring demand for cyber coverage
Thursday 13 Jul 2017Fighting off hacking attacks like the recent WannaCry ransomware raid that shut down parts of the NHS is leading to a boom in cyber insurance. Paul Bantick, who leads a specialist team at Lloyd’s of London underwriter Beazley ( BEZ ) , reckons it is one of the industry’s fastest-growing segments,...