Aluminum producer Alcoa’s first-quarter report beat Wall Street estimates. Focus now shifts to the buy of Alumina, and boosting earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
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Bitcoin sells off alongside stocks amid wider market jitters. But now the technical backdrop for cryptos is even weaker.
Kremlin-owned natural gas giant Gazprom has plunged to its worst loss in at least 25 years in a blow to Vladimir Putin’s war economy.
Experts have explained why car insurance costs are so high and what to do about it as some report their new quotes have doubled or tripled since last time
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Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has said inflation is moving in the right direction but some of his fellow interest rate-setters have sent different messages on how quickly the BoE should move towards a first cut in borrowing costs since 2020. Financial markets put almost zero chance on a rate cut on May 9, after the next meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee. Many economists think the BoE is likely to cut rates sooner than that.
The FTSE 100 continues to impress in 2024 as last month it reached new highs. Here are two stocks investors should consider for May. The post The FTSE 100 reached record highs in April! Here’s what investors should consider buying in May appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
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Amazon stock has been one of the biggest winners over the last couple of decades. Muhammad Cheema takes a look at whether this run can continue. The post If I’d invested £1k in Amazon stock when it went public, here’s what I’d have today appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
The King’s bank is pulling nearly £2bn out of the London stock market in the latest hammer blow to the beleaguered exchange.
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DWP and HMRC has shaken up its payment dates during the fifth month of the year as the Cost of Living crisis continues.
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STORY: Aston Martin posted a bigger-than-expected first-quarter loss on Wednesday (May 1).The British luxury carmaker made fewer cars and burned more cash than analysts anticipated.It reported a pretax deficit of $138 million for the three months to the end of March.That was about double last year's total and worse than analysts projected.Aston Martin has launched several new cars over the past year.And it stopped production of old models ahead of the ramp up in production of more new autos later this year.Chairman Lawrence Stroll said the Q1 performance reflected an expected period of transition.In an example of further change, the company named Bentley head Adrian Hallmark as its new CEO in March.Investors weren't impressed by Wednesday's figures though.Shares in the firm plummeted as much as 14%, though they later recovered to trade down 7%.The second quarter's performance is expected to be broadly similar to the first.However, Aston Martin kept its forecast for this year unchanged.
The Bank of England is once again facing criticism for its disastrous mishandling of Britain’s monetary policy. The OECD’s latest forecasts predict that the UK will be the slowest growing economy in the G7 next year, as high taxes, welfare spending and interest rates eat away at the incentives for work and investment.
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