HSBC weighs down FTSE 100 as election vote looms October 28, 2019 Britain’s FTSE 100 index has opened down this morning ahead of a crucial vote in the Commons on the government’s motion to hold a general election on 12 December. The blue-chip index dropped 0.39 per cent in early trading. Opposition parties have indicated they won’t support the government in the vote, which is scheduled for [...]
HSBC’s SME loan fund to double help for international businesses September 26, 2019 HSBC is set to double the amount ringfenced for international businesses in its small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) loans fund this year, with the help available for the agriculture sector also set to rise. The bank’s 2019 SME fund will total £14bn, a £2bn increase on last year’s figure and the largest fund since the [...]
HSBC worries mount after CEO exit August 5, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. Ousting CEO John Flint after 18 months highlights the pressures on HSBC, despite robust H1 results today. As if the current geopolitical and monetary policy concerns were not bad enough, HSBC (LSE:HSBA) investors now have succession risk to worry about after the bank’s surprise decision to part company with John Flint only 18 months [...]
Goodbye, John Flint: Why has HSBC axed its CEO? August 5, 2019 HSBC’s results this morning were overshadowed by the bank’s decision to sack CEO John Flint after just 18 months at the helm. Just a few hours later, HSBC confirmed it is looking to cut 5,000 jobs at the bank as it chases savings. Read more: HSBC to cut nearly 5,000 in huge savings drive Flint [...]
HSBC axes nearly 5,000 jobs in bid to reduce salary costs after sacking CEO August 5, 2019 HSBC will make as many as 4,700 people redundant from its global workforce in a bid to cut long-term costs, it has announced this morning. The job cuts will involve as many as two per cent of its workers across the world, who number 237,685. Read more: Goodbye, John Flint: Why has HSBC axed its [...]
HSBC CEO John Flint steps down from bank after just 18 months August 5, 2019 HSBC boss John Flint has fallen victim to a top-level reshuffle at the bank despite racking up a 16 per cent rise in first half profits. The firm said this morning it needed a change at the helm to deal with a “challenging global environment”. Flint, who has been chief executive for around a year-and-a-half, [...]
UK banks: What to make of Lloyds, RBS and Barclays? May 29, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. Having underperformed since April's stock market peak, here's what to expect from the domestic lenders. With UK banks making heavy weather of Q1 results and the Brexit shackles still in place, there's a clear lack of momentum behind shares of Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY), Barclays (LSE:BARC) and The Royal [...]
Barclays shares: Optimists see an opportunity April 29, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. These results do not impress, but there’s lots going on at Barclays and plenty to interest investors. Without the attention generated by activist investor Edward Bramson, it’s likely that last week’s lacklustre investment banking performance at Barclays (LSE:BARC) may have been passed off as just another quarter blighted by [...]
Lloyds Bank stars as FTSE 100 rockets in Q1 April 9, 2019 | City Talk By Graeme Evans from interactive investor. After a great first quarter for stock markets, we assess the best and worst blue-chips of 2019 so far. It’s been a storming start to 2019 for the FTSE 100 index, with popular interactive investor stocks including Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY), Next (LSE:NXT) and Tesco (LSE:TSCO) among those on [...]
10 most popular funds in February 2019 March 15, 2019 | City Talk By Kyle Caldwell from interactive investor. UK shares look cheap, but Brexit uncertainty has stopped some fund investors into their home market. From both a growth and an income perspective, the UK stockmarket is as cheap as chips, but retail investors continue to shy away, data from our parent company interactive investor shows. On the [...]