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Can Greggs serve up another tasty sales performance?

Thursday 29 Feb 2024

Investors will ravenously digest comments on the current trading environment when UK food-to-go specialist Greggs (GRG) delivers its full-year results on 5 March. While the value-for-money sausage roll, coffee and Yum Yums retailer has enjoyed positive momentum supported by its value-for-money...

Will Target hit the mark with its latest update?

Thursday 29 Feb 2024

US budget retail chain Target (TGT:NASDAQ) posts its fourth quarter earnings on Tues 5 March and investors will be hoping they help sustain the recent momentum in the share price. The company has recently created a new ‘value’ brand with prices for everyday basics that start at under $1 per item...

Higher-than-expected US inflation fails to dent investor sentiment

Thursday 22 Feb 2024

It says a great deal about the market’s resilience that after stronger-than-expected US CPI (consumer price index) and weaker-than-expected UK GDP (gross domestic product) prints shares have continued their advance. Most of the unexpected increase in US inflation came from ‘shelter’ costs, which...

Will Aston Martin continue to rack up big losses?

Thursday 22 Feb 2024

Luxury car maker Aston Martin Lagonda (AML) is set to report its 2023 results on 28 February under something of a cloud, with its shares close to 52-week lows and trading at just a fraction of their value at the time of the IPO in October 2018. Meanwhile, the optimistic comparisons the company made...

Berkshire Hathaway results sure to capture the market’s imagination

Thursday 22 Feb 2024

Few stocks command as much attention as Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B:NYSE) , but then few investors are as well known as Warren Buffett and his late business partner Charlie Munger. The pair built a business with a market cap today of $880 billion and an investment portfolio which is as good a...

Focus on GDP and Fed meeting minutes after big inflation numbers

Thursday 15 Feb 2024

After an uneventful few days over the tail end of last week and the beginning of this week, the economic calendar moves into high gear with the all-important US and UK January consumer price indices due for release just before Shares goes to print. Markets often go up during quiet periods, and the...

Will Nvidia deliver more knockout earnings?

Thursday 15 Feb 2024

Can AI (artificial intelligence) chip leader Nvidia (NVDA:NASDAQ) keep putting forecasts to the sword? The Santa Clara-based design business has blown past expectations in each of the past four quarters and skipping a soggy third quarter for earnings in 2022, it’s a forecast-thumping record that...

BAE Systems riding high ahead of its full year results

Thursday 15 Feb 2024

It has been a stellar two years for defence business BAE Systems (BA.), among the very best periods in the company’s history. The war in Ukraine and other tensions around the world have acted as a spur for global governments to invest in their military capability and BAE has positioned itself in...

March rate cut off the agenda altogether after ‘stunning’ US jobs report

Thursday 08 Feb 2024

In our previous issue we predicted the market would take its cue from the central banks’ rhetoric regarding future interest rate cuts, and suggested there may be some volatility around the US payroll figures. Sure enough, both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve batted away any suggestion...

Can Coca-Cola serve up another sparkling performance?

Thursday 08 Feb 2024

Investors will be thirsting for another serving of good news when beverages behemoth Coca-Cola (KO:NYSE) reports earnings for the fourth quarter and full year to December 2023 on 13 February before the opening bell on Wall Street. Consensus calls for a year-on-year rise in fourth-quarter sales and...

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