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On Wednesday, electric power providers will pay up to 1. 4 million families and businesses to restrict their electricity use and force blackouts, as frigid temperatures are expected to cause an increase in demand for electric power.
This is the first time this winter that this measure, agreed through National Grid, has been followed.
Concerns about the ability of electricity and fuel grids to cope with the situation come after the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings, lasting until Thursday, indicating that parts of northern and eastern Scotland, northeastern England and Yorkshire could see snow and ice. .
Under the scheme, officially known as the Demand Flexibility Service, families get bills of up to £10 a day to reduce their electricity consumption. This device was used last winter, when it was used twice. National Grid said that this winter, 1. 4 million homes and businesses have so far joined the program.
A spokesperson for National Grid said: “Our forecast shows that electric power source margins are expected to be tighter than usual on Wednesday evening. . . This doesn’t mean that the source of electrical power is in danger and that other people aren’t worried.
“These are precautionary measures for the reserve of unused capacity that we need. “
Meanwhile, Britain’s largest fuel shop is pumping fuel into the grid to meet the country’s heating needs.
Centrica, which owns British Gas, said the garage in Rough, 18 miles off the Yorkshire coast, would handle demand. This is the first time it has sent fuel to the grid this winter.
Centrica’s lead executive, Chris O’Shea, said: “Gas storage is key to ensuring the UK can manage demand effectively, while keeping costs down, and crude oil accounts for more than 50% of the UK’s total fuel supply.
Britain has limited fuel storage sites to many of its European neighbors.
Centrica said the country has enough fuel in storage to meet demand for 12 days, 80 days for Germany, 103 for France and 123 for the Netherlands.
Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam Smith Institute, said that instead of encouraging other people to use less electricity, the government uses tax incentives to build energy sources and fuel storage facilities. “We tap into the treasure trove of fuel beneath our feet to avoid long-term shortages,” he said.
Read the updates below.
Thank you for joining us today. My colleague Chris Price will be back tomorrow around 7 a. m. , but I’ll leave you with some more recent economic news from the Telegraph:
Farfetch tycoon proposes privatising luxury fashion after failed initial public offering in the US
Octopus tells consumers to unplug their laptops to avoid ‘dirty carbon’
A U. S. banking giant taking on British retail banks expects to break even within 12 to 18 months.
Chase UK is performing better than expected, said Daniel Pinto, chief operating officer at JP Morgan Chase.
“We have acquired around two million customers” in the U. K. , Pinto said at a Financial Times conference, according to Reuters. “A gigantic percentage of them are actively involved and we have almost $20 billion in deposits. “
The FTSE fell 0. 07% today. The two biggest gainers were Rolls-Royce (-6. 21%), which obviously had a successful day for investors, while Smurfit Kappa was up 3. 1%. Pearson lost 3. 69% and Burberry lost 3. 32%.
Meanwhile, the FTSE 250 fell 0. 28%. The biggest increases were for EasyJet (-4%) and Swiss Watches (-3. 83%). Digital Nine Infrastructures fell 8. 6% after launching a strategic review.
Falling space costs are deterring them from renovating their bathrooms, the director of Topps Tiles said, after profits fell nearly 40%. Hannah Boland reports:
Rob Parker, chief executive of Topps Tiles, said it was “harder” for other people to spend on their homes when they wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the extra price when selling them.
He said: “Investing money in a house when it’s an asset that’s appreciating is pretty good. . . The natural tendency in a weaker market is for other people to wait and postpone jobs for a few months. “
This month’s figures showed that the UK’s space costs fell on average by 3. 2% in October from a year earlier, as emerging interest rates pushed up borrowing costs.
Topps Tiles said the effect on discretionary finishing meant its sales were down 3% in the first eight weeks of its fiscal year compared to last year. Pretax profit fell 37. 6% in the year to the end of October.
Shares in FTSE 100-listed packaging company Smurfit Kappa rose today on expectations that prices would rise.
The percentage of value accumulation of more than 2. 7% came as a reaction to an analyst at investment bank Jefferies noting that the company’s rival, Packaging Corporation of America, had increased the value.
Smurfit Kappa produces corrugated packaging in 35 countries. It employs a further 48,000 people at 355 production sites.
Rolls-Royce held talks with investors about its plans to transform the company. Our Industry Editor, Howard Mustoe, reports:
Rolls-Royce is to divest its flying taxi and electric aircraft business after chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic unveiled a £1. 5bn sales programme.
The potential sales are part of Mr Erginbilgic’s plan to quadruple the jet engine maker’s profits, which he hopes to achieve through energy savings of £500 million a year.
Erginbilgic, nicknamed “Turbo” Tufan by analysts, revealed on Tuesday that it needs Rolls-Royce’s profits to reach at least £2. 5 billion by 2027.
He has been tasked with restructuring the company since he took over in January and announced last month that Rolls would cut up to 2,500 jobs across the company.
However, new cost-saving plans have since been touted and the company has also said that these are outside investments in its power generation and battery storage divisions.
Read the article. . .
The National Grid announced plans for electric power consumption on Wednesday, saying that “margins for electric power sources are expected to be tighter than usual Wednesday night. “
Tomorrow, from 5:00 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. , it activates its “Live Demand Flexibility service”, in which consumers willing to use less electricity to accumulate the electricity available on the grid are paid.
This is the first time he has started the banknotes this winter, which he used twice in winter.
National Grid said last Wednesday that there was a “combination of factors” so it wanted to discourage its use, but declined to elaborate.
An offshore wind farm decommissioned in July will be revived after the government guarantees a higher price for power produced from wind power.
Initial plans to build a wind farm capable of feeding 1. 5 million people in the UK were cancelled after its developer concluded it would lose money.
Vattenfall, a multinational energy corporation owned by the Swedish government, said this summer that the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm was canceled because inflation drove up the value of wind turbines. At the same time, high interest rates made the capital burden more expensive. He said that “the geopolitical situation has made offshore wind and its chain of origin vulnerable” and called on the government to adjust the price it could qualify for the energy produced.
Now it seems that Vattenfall needs to reaffirm his dedication to the project. The company plans to resubmit the wind farm to the 2024 government auction, which the government intends to dedicate to the purchase of renewable energy at a guaranteed price.
Earlier this month, the government announced that it would increase the maximum costs it would pay for offshore wind by 66%.
One might think that the Bank of England’s failure to control the magnitude of inflation is deliberate, writes Jeremy Warner:
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, doesn’t like to admit it, but the existing inflation, well above target, has proved to be a blessing in disguise for him, and he came to his aid last week in the autumn by giving the government the opportunity to cut National Insurance contributions and make permanent and significant tax cuts for capital spending.
The resulting £20bn fiscal ‘giveaway’ would not have been imaginable under the government’s own fiscal rules, had it not been for the fact that peak inflation put drivers below the expected tax revenues, i. e. the resulting of the ‘fiscal brake’ of the freeze. tax thresholds on personal source of income.
With an immediate reduction in nominal incomes, the effect is to entice millions of people to raise tax levels, or to pay taxes for the first time, thus increasing incomes by more than £40 billion per year until the end of the year. forecast consistent with the period, much more than originally planned.
Read. . .
I’m in a bloodless London right now and I’ll leave you in the hands of Alex Singleton, who very wisely wears a sweater when the temperatures drop.
Weather warnings about snow and ice in the northern regions of the country prompted National Grid’s electric power provider to trigger its live call for flexibility service, under which it will pay families to reduce their peak periods of energy consumption.
This does not mean that the source of electrical power is threatened and that other people are not worried. These are precautionary measures to maintain the unused capacity reservation we need.
– National Grid ESO (@NationalGridESO) November 28, 2023
The U. S. Federal Reserve is making encouraging progress in fighting inflation, a senior bank official said, pointing to signs that the economic expansion is slowing and emerging economies are slowing.
The Federal Reserve recently voted to keep its benchmark rate at a 22-year high of between 5. 25 percent and 5. 5 percent, reinforcing expectations that it has finished raising interest rates as it seeks to bring inflation firmly back to its long-term target of 2 percent.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, who votes on the FOMC panel guilty of setting U. S. interest rates, told a convention in Washington: “I’m encouraged by what I’ve learned over the past few weeks: Something turns out to be giving way, and that’s the speed of economy. “
He added that October’s economic data “is consistent with the kind of moderate demand and easing of price pressures that will reduce inflation to 2%. “
The strong economic expansion of the first three quarters of the year appears to be slowing in the latest quarter, according to Waller, pointing to a decline in retail sales data in October.
Declining spending on the interest-rate-sensitive auto sector “could be evidence” that the Federal Reserve’s policy is having some effect, he said.
At the same time, inflation moved “in the right direction in October, albeit gradually,” and the tight hard labor market is showing signs of cooling, he added.
Wall Street seemed to show little effect on his comments, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average flat, the S
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed that his government will address the budget crisis “as temporarily as possible” after a court ruling canceled billions of dollars in planned spending.
Scholz and his governing coalition will have to cut back next year after Germany’s highest court ruled that 60 billion euros ($52 billion) in investments for renewable energy projects and aid for consumers and businesses violated debt limits set out in the constitution.
The cuts that will have to be made next year could simply slow down what is already the world’s worst economy even further.
Scholz said in a speech to parliament that Germans “need it in these volatile times. “
He promised that the government would abandon its goals of drastically reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels and protective social spending.
Oliver Rakau, lead economist for Germany at Oxford Economics, describes Scholz’s faces:
How bad health is the German industry really? It depends on the metric you are looking for. The value added 0. 6% below the 2019 average in the third quarter, while commercial production is particularly 7% lower. pic. twitter. com/NGf823HByz
– Oliver Rakau (@OliverRakau) November 28, 2023
Channel 4 is asking for an emergency loan to shore up its finances amid the most domestic advertising crisis since the currency crisis.
Our reporter James Warrington has the news:
Alex Mahon, chief executive of Channel 4, said the channel is in a position to use its £75 million emergency credit facility after an advertising “market shock”. The state-owned company has a revolving credit facility that it can use as monetary collateral if needed.
Speaking to MEPs in the Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, Ms Mahon said: “We are in what I would call market surprise territory.
“This point of decline in advertising was only more significant during the 2008 recession, so I think next year we’re going to take a look at how we use this lending service. “
It would be the first time Channel Four has relied on its £75m monetary backing. The public service broadcaster reduced its debt as a precaution at the height of the pandemic in 2020, but never used that money.
This chart shows how much TV advertising has fallen.
U. S. stocks opened lower after a strong winning streak in November as investors remained cautious of comments from Federal Reserve officials that could provide clues on interest rate developments.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1. 34 points at the open to 35,332. 13.
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Interest rates will remain elevated because businesses won’t be able to fill vacancies, a Bank of England policymaker has warned.
Our Deputy Business Editor, Tim Wallace, has the news:
Jonathan Haskel is stepping up the rhetoric about Bank of England interests.
“Rates will want to stay higher and for longer than many seem to expect,” the member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the University of Warwick will say this afternoon.
It argues that the tightening labor market is keeping inflation well above the Bank’s 2% target and that “at current exchange rates, it would take at least a year to return to the pre-pandemic average adjustment. “
The labour market appears less effective at connecting job seekers to tasks than it did before Covid, he says, while low productivity is also driving up business costs.
At best, workers may need more money to repair the damage done to their purchasing power by the cost-of-living crisis.
“If the ‘catch-up’ becomes more apparent, it would mean persistent wage pressure,” he says.
Haskel follows Andrew Bailey, the Bank’s governor, Sir Dave Ramsden, the deputy governor, and Huw Pill, the lead economist, in emphasizing this week that interest rates will have to stay at 5. 25% for some time yet.
Oil rose after a series of losses as the market weighed the option of deeper production cuts by the OPEC cartel of oil-producing countries.
Brent crude rose 0. 5% to over $80 a barrel, reversing losses from previous sessions. Prices remain firm ahead of a meeting of the OPEC manufacturers’ organization later in the week.
Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s de facto leader, has asked other members to reduce their production quotas to shore up markets, but some members appear to be resisting.
Tamas Varga, analyst at broker PVM, said:
There will be no OPEC this week.
Barring negative surprises, the recent drop in value will most likely be perceived as a buying opportunity, especially if additional cuts are agreed.
Crude has fallen by about a fifth since late September due to a lack of material and concerns about the global economic backdrop.
The International Energy Agency warned earlier this month that markets would return to surpluses next year amid a dramatic slowdown in the call for growth.
Gas prices remain low today, even though Britain’s largest workshop is injecting into the grid for the first time this year.
However, fuel consumption in the UK is falling at a slower rate than in Europe.
The continent’s benchmark contract fell 3. 4% to less than 43 euros per megawatt hour.
But the contract in the UK fell just 3. 7% to less than 109 pence, in line with therme.
Barclays is cutting thousands of clients from its investment bank as it targets £1 billion worth of charge cuts.
Our reporter Michael Bow has the details:
As a component of a restructuring planned for next year, the bank has discussed plans to terminate relationships with customers that generate sufficient profits for the lender.
Clients at risk of being excluded include governments, hedge funds, fund managers and sovereign wealth funds.
Investment bank Barclays has around 10,000 corporate clients, and the Financial Times reports that up to 2,500 of them could be eliminated.
The move is one of several features being made through CEO C. S. Venkatakrishnan, known as Venkat, as it carries out a restructuring plan dubbed Project Minerva.
Find out how the bank is under intense pressure to breathe life into your fortune.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the departure of the Virgin Atlantic flight from Heathrow was “very exciting”.
In a video posted on Twitter/X, he said, “Right now, something very exciting is in the sky above us. “
He continued:
Not only will Saf play a key role in decarbonising aviation, but it can also create an industry in the UK with an annual turnover of almost £2. 5 billion, which can generate just over 5,000 jobs in the UK.
It is wonderful that UK corporations and establishments such as Virgin Atlantic, Rolls-Royce, Boeing and the University of Sheffield continue to stand up for aviation.
This is an image reflected in the blue sky.
Right now, there is something very exciting in the sky above us? pic. twitter. com/rOoIkfPNqh
– Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) November 28, 2023
Sterling declined slightly from its three-month high but remains on track for its biggest monthly gain in a year against the dollar.
Sterling last fell 0. 1% to just over $1. 26, despite Bank of England Deputy Governor Sir Dave Ramsden reiterating that interest rates will want to remain high for an “extended period. “
Money markets are still pricing in an interest rate cut of around 63 fund issues by the Bank of England until the end of next year, this is less than the market value for the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, where around 90 fund issues from cut cuts are worthwhile.
The British pound also fell 0. 1% against the euro, to less than 87 pence.
U. S. stock indexes fell slightly in premarket trading as investors await comments from a slew of Federal Reserve members for clues on how interest rates will move.
Wall Street’s rally in November came to a halt on Monday as markets took a breather after Thanksgiving.
Still, all three primary indices are on track to post monthly gains after three consecutive months of losses. The rebound also led to the S
In premarket trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat, the S
Adobe’s plan to buy design software company Figma has been cast in doubt after regulators said the £20 billion (£15. 8 billion) deal would hurt festivals in the sector.
The Autorité de los angeles concurrence et des marchés (Competition and Markets Authority) has provisionally considered that the agreement would be concluded between the two main competences in the product design sector; symbol editing; and the rendering software markets.
Margot Daly, chair of the panel leading the inquiry, said:
The virtual design sector is worth almost £60 billion to the UK (representing 2. 7% of the national economy) and employs more than 850,000 people in highly professional jobs.
The software used in this sector is critical to its success, which is why the CMA has focused from the outset on ensuring that this merger does not harm such a giant component of the UK economy.
Adobe and Figma are two of the world’s leading software providers for designers and applications and our research so far has revealed that they are close competitors.
Therefore, this proposed agreement could have an impact on the UK virtual design industry by reducing choice, innovation and the progression of competitive new products.
Lisa Wilkinson fought back tears as she described how she pleaded with Wilko staff not to be fired after the sale store fell under management.
He said that the recommendation of the directors and auditors was not to factor a statement.
She said she was a user who had not yet given an interview to a newspaper because it was the only way to convey a message to thank her staff. She:
It was the only way I could thank my team members.
I will thank my clients and team members until my last day.
The auditors guilty of the final financial statements released through Wilko before its bankruptcy told MPs they had made a “serious wake-up call”.
Victoria Venning, EY’s wife, told the Business Select Committee that the accounts obviously indicated that Wilko had “insufficient funding to deal with a serious but credible downturn in business activity. “
She told MPs: “This has not been hidden. It’s not confusing language. This is very obvious language in our audit opinion.
He added that this “drew attention to the fact that there is a credible scenario” in which the company could run into difficulties.
Wilko’s former chief executive admitted that there was a window of opportunity to save the company, but that he was unable to secure the investment it needed.
Mark Jackson told MPs the company’s balance sheet was “well placed” until 2022, when its finances deteriorated and it began to run out of cash.
“In fact, there is a window in which a change may have occurred,” he told lawmakers.
When asked why this opportunity was not taken advantage of, he replied: “Because we were not able to receive help from donors. This continued; I’ve knocked down a lot of doors on several occasions.
“Up until the beginning of August, we had other people who were very willing to save the company and I think they still had a very smart opportunity to do so.
“At the end of the day, the number of pledges on the balance sheet was shrinking every day. . . The guaranteed amount that the finalists were willing to finish cutting. “
Lisa Wilkinson apologized to Wilko for the collapse of the 93-year-old chain, which caused the loss of more than 12,000 people.
The former president of the retailer, the deputy:
I am devastated to have let each and every one of those other people down with Wilko’s insolvency.
I don’t know how to express how unhappy I am that I have disappointed all of our team members, all of our customers, our suppliers and our advisors.
Pressed through Enterprise and Commerce Committee chairman Liam Byrne to apologise directly, Mrs Wilkinson said: “You can tell me I’m sorry, of course, I’m sorry. . . I’m sorry we’re not here for those people anymore. “
Wilko’s auditors “didn’t do their job” because the store faced monetary difficulties in its final years before collapsing under management, lawmakers were told.
Professor Atul Shah of City University said that “without a doubt” EY and PWC had done their homework in describing Wilko’s monetary health.
Appearing before the Business and Commerce Committee, he said that the auditors had drafted their reports in a way that they themselves did not use.
He said Wilko’s final accounts before it went into management showed that Barclays had demanded payment of a £125 million loan, forcing the company to sell its Worksop distribution centre to cover the payment.
Prof Shah accused the auditors of publishing the accounts as overdue as possible to ensure that the proceeds of the sale were included in the accounts.
He said, “When you take a look at the audit report, it’s like ‘they succeeded but failed, they succeeded but failed again. ‘”
He added: “The accounts give an intelligent and fair image. »
PwC and EY have been contacted for comment.
Former Wilko chairwoman Lisa Wilkinson considered Liz Truss’s mini-budget to be one of the points that contributed to the retailer’s downsizing collapse.
Speaking to MPs on the Business and Commerce Committee, he said the company was negotiating a new loan deal when the mini-budget sent interest rates soaring.
Mrs. Wilkinson, granddaughter of the company’s founder, said:
We are about to sign secured loan agreements with Macquarie when the 2022 mini-budget takes place.
We were literally in the middle of it, and at that point, the interest terms of that loan particularly increased, which became unworkable. So, he’s a taxpayer.
Wilko collapsed over the summer, leading to the closure of more than two hundred outlets and the loss of 12,000 jobs.
Former Wilko workers were talking about how they felt like “family” to their union, before the chain went bankrupt, GMB said.
Nadine Houghton, leader of the GMB union, said:
You’d be hard-pressed to find a membership organization that spoke so coherently about the fact that Wilko felt like a family to them.
During the era of the old farm, before Lisa (Wilkinson) was the majority owner, members describe an era of smart wages and conditions, feeling respected. . . They were trusted.
He told MPs: “The truth is that 12,000 people have lost their jobs because of that series of failures.
“This multi-generational circle of family members that was part of Wilko is something I haven’t heard of from any other employer I deal with. “
Over time, Wilko has lost a sense of loyalty to its employees, lawmakers were told, as the descendants of the founder of the reduction chain have covered corporate restructurings.
Professor Atul Shah, from City University, said he sees family businesses evolving over time and that “the sense of loyalty and duty has not lasted one way or the other. “
He told the Business and Commerce Committee that in 2017, Wilkinson’s family remained the majority shareholder in the group.
However, after that time, they “created some other ownership group” that “legally allows the circle of relatives to hide some other layer. “
According to him, the Wilko case shows the founding family’s intuition to “protect themselves at the expense of employees. “
He also lamented that Wilko has “advisors who help corporations do that kind of thing. “
Wilko had been denouncing “difficult business positions” with his union since 2010 and wanted to move away from the concept of becoming a discount retailer, lawmakers were told.
Nadine Houghton, leader of the GMB union, told the Works and Trade Committee:
We have correspondence between us and Wilko in which they identify a complicated business position dating back to approximately 2010.
They point out that shops are a problem.
He said that, based on that, the company tried to update its business model.
“What we’re seeing is a move away from the concept that Wilko would have a retailer,” Ms. Houghton said.
He added: “The internal message to our members. . . it’s very much this attempt to move almost to a John Lewis-type model. »
The Business Select Committee has begun its hearing on Wilko’s bankruptcy, which in early September led to the loss of 12,500 jobs.
Nadine Houghton, GMB’s national director, attributed the company’s decline to “weak leadership. “
He named Lisa Wilkinson, granddaughter of the company’s founder, as the bearer of “a great responsibility. “
He criticized the “huge dividends” charged to the company, which amounted to £77m in a decade.
He added that the company has adapted to market changes.
UK shoppers spent £3. 5 billion online between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to industry data, up 5. 6% from last year.
Adobe said UK shoppers spent more than £1 billion on Black Friday and £2. 4 billion over the next three days, an era known as Cyber Weekend.
Adobe said UK shoppers spent £475 million through ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ facilities over the cyber weekend, accounting for 13. 8% of total online spending and up 15. 8% from the same time a year earlier.
It said total spending since November 1 had reached £12 billion, up 5. 1% from 2022 levels.
Natural fuels have fallen, with analysts forecasting a 6-7% drop in consumption in Europe.
The U. K. ‘s main contract fell 2. 1%, while the European benchmark fell 2. 2% in early trading following Bloomberg Intelligence analysis.
Gas reserves in Europe remain the highest, but withdrawals have accelerated, mitigating falling prices.
The executive leader of the insurance company and over 50s Saga has resigned after four tumultuous years marked by the pandemic.
Euan Sutherland has quickly resigned and will be replaced by CFO Mike Hazell.
Sutherland informed the board of his goal to step down earlier this year and will remain in the role until the end of January to ease the transition to his successor, who joined the company last month.
Sutherland, a former Superdry boss, joined Saga in January 2020, two months before the UK imposed its first Covid lockdown.
Saga non-executive chairman, Sir Roger De Haan of Saga, said:
I would like to thank Euan for the tremendous contribution he has made to Saga since joining the company 4 years ago.
His confidence in the strength of the Saga logo and the ability of our people has been at the center of everything he has done to stabilize this company and return it to successful growth. We wish you the best of luck in the next phase of his career.
Transportation Secretary Mark Harper hailed the first transatlantic flight via a giant aircraft powered exclusively by sustainable aviation fuel as a “huge step forward. “
Mr. Harper BBC Breakfast:
We are looking at sustainable aviation fuel, a big step forward today, with one hundred percent use for the first time in a giant advertising flight.
We are also committed to supporting the industry in the development of hydrogen-powered flights, as well as electric flights for short-haul flights. Therefore, this whole generation is development.
This is a big step forward. This is because we must make sure, this government must make sure, that other ordinary people can continue to fly profitably in the world. We saw how much other people were looking to do this.
Flights have resumed very temporarily after the pandemic and we need to make sure that other people can continue to do so, but in a way that protects the environment.
The FTSE 100 plunged as investors awaited a slew of global economic information to be released later in the week.
The exporters index fell 0. 6%, while the more locally oriented FTSE 250 mid-cap index lost 0. 4%.
Industrial metals miners fell 1. 1% early, while Burberry Group fell 2. 6% after HSBC cut its percentage value target.
Investors eagerly await UK loan data, eurozone inflation figures, and the US Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report (the Federal Reserve’s inflation gauge) due out this week.
Among individual stocks, Rolls-Royce jumped to the most sensible FTSE 100 position after promising a much more successful venture.
In the case of civil aeronautics, this margin grew by between 15 and 17%, compared to 2. 5% last year. Shares of the aeronautical engineering company rose 6. 2%.
The difficult situations facing inflation in the United Kingdom “are of internal origin”, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned, as Britain overcomes the energy crisis.
Sir Dave Ramsden said costs could continue to rise at an immediate rate because of the sector, where inflation has been “much more persistent” than forecasters expected.
The “labor-intensive” sector, which accounts for 45% of CPI inflation, struggles when it comes to hiring, he said.
He told Bloomberg TV: “We think it’s going to be very difficult to get inflation out of the system. “
UK markets lost ground early in the day following warnings from industry groups about the threat of a return to food price inflation.
The FTSE hundred fell 0. 4% to 7,432. 93, while the FTSE 250 midcap fell 0. 2% to 18,403. 66.
Rolls-Royce has defined the next phase of its turnaround plans as CEO Tufan Erginbilgic aims to make money and recoup capital.
As part of a series of ambitious targets set ahead of Capital Markets Day, the company expects to deliver an operating profit of up to £2. 8 billion through 2027.
It aims to raise up to £3. 1 billion of loose money up to the same date, with a return on capital of up to 18% until then.
The medium-term ambitions come less than a year after Erginbilgic described the engineering firm as a “burning platform” shortly after taking over. Said:
Rolls-Royce is at a pivotal moment in its history.
After a smart start to our transformation program, today we are defining a transparent vision of the path we want to take and the spaces in which we want to move forward.
We are creating a high-performing, competitive, resilient and developing Rolls-Royce that will have the monetary strength to shape its own destiny.
We are confident in our ability to meet those ambitions and have a transparent and precise plan for our goals. We have made significant progress, with gains and monetary guidance for 2023 particularly higher than in 2022.
Pets at Home said the effects of moving to a new distribution center squeezed profits and profits in the first part of the year, but the company maintained its outlook.
The company said its pre-tax profit fell by more than a third to £34. 7 million in the period, partly due to around £8 million in higher logistics costs and a one-off payment of £13. 1 million accrued by the move.
However, the company said the disruption caused by the move to the Stafford had now eased.
Retail revenue increased 7. 1% in the first quarter and 2. 7% in the second quarter. Since the end of the second quarter, they have “normalized” to around 4% comparable growth.
Pets at Home said it had made no adjustments to its underlying pre-tax profit forecast, which is expected to be around £136 million.
EasyJet said record functionality in its second half of the year and peak summer season helped it cope with an emerging fuel bill and higher prices across the company.
However, it warned that it expects to reduce its losses in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, as flights and calls are affected by the war between Hamas and Israel.
Its flights to Israel and Jordan are suspended, and Egypt is also experiencing a domino effect, accounting for a total of 4% of its overall flight schedule.
EasyJet said: “In addition, there has been a wider effect on short-term flight searches and bookings across the industry, although this appears to be returning with a recent improvement in trade. “
EasyJet has reinstated its dividend for the first time since the pandemic after a record summer in which the airline returned to profit.
The cheap airline will pay investors 4. 5p on a constant percentage basis after pre-tax profit hits £455 million, following a loss of £178 million the previous year.
Its holiday department grew by 221%, generating a pre-tax profit of £122 million, as it carried 82. 8 million passengers, an increase of 19%.
Managing Director Johan Lundgren said:
Our unprecedented summer functionality demonstrates the good fortune of our strategy and demand for easyJet remains strong as a consumer of our network and value.
We expect a positive outlook for this year, with airline and holiday bookings rising year-on-year and a recent customer study highlighting that around three-quarters of Brits plan to spend more on their holidays compared to last year, and they will remain the most sensible priority for household spending.
We are confident in ourselves in the long term and in the opportunities that lie ahead, focusing on the field of capital and pushing our cheap style towards our ambitious medium-term goals.
As stores warned that autumn posed risks of food price inflation, a Treasury spokesperson said:
Thanks to our action we have achieved our goal of halving inflation this year, but we are still on track to reduce inflation to 2%.
The OBR has shown that our policies will inflate the coming year while also driving expansion and rewarding other people for their hard work.
We are helping businesses by reducing investment taxes, extending 75% relief to retail, hospitality and leisure, and protecting the costs of more than one million advertising homes from inflation.
The fall in food price inflation will most likely reverse as supermarkets are hit by the extra prices imposed by the chancellor, the retail bosses warned.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said changes to pay and taxes introduced by Jeremy Hunt in the Autumn Statement were at risk of undoing any progress made on grocery inflation which has been easing in recent months.
She said: “Retailers are committed to offering their customers a Christmas. They will face additional headwinds in 2024, from government-imposed increases in trade rates to the hidden prices of compliance with new regulations.
“Combining these measures with the largest increase in the living wage on record nationally risks stalling or even reversing the progress made in reducing inflation, especially in the food sector. “
The minimum wage will rise from £1 to £11. 44 an hour in April, the chancellor announced last week, leading to higher costs for shops at a time when food costs are not yet fully under control.
At the same time, the UK’s largest stores have been exempted from the freeze on advertising fees announced in the autumn declaration; The tax will be increased in line with inflation for 220,000 larger advertising homes starting next year.
A deposit formula for bottles and cans, planned for 2025, is also expected to impose an additional burden on supermarkets.
Prices in stores this month were up 4. 3% from November last year, the BRC said.
This is a deceleration in inflation of 5. 2% in October, according to the group’s measure.
Food prices rose 7. 8% year-on-year, slowing from 8. 8% in October, as the global energy surprise triggered by the war in Ukraine fades and lower prices ease pressures on sectors, adding dairy production.
There are still upward pressures on the price of imports due to the weakening of the British pound. The British pound is trading at $1. 26 against the dollar lately, down from this year’s July high of $1. 31.
Thank you for being with us. The Chancellor’s autumn imposed measures that could only increase food price inflation, retail chiefs warned.
Helen Dickinson, executive leader of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said wage and tax adjustments introduced through Jeremy Hunt in the autumn risked driving up prices.
He pointed to the increase in the minimum wage and business rates for supermarkets, which would lead to higher prices for businesses.
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Stocks were mixed in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks declined as investors awaited updates on inflation and what U. S. consumers said about the economy.
Tokyo and Hong Kong fell while Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney advanced.
Later in the day, the Conference Board will release its most recent report on customer confidence, which has remained strong throughout the year. Economists polled via FactSet expect some other solid reading for the October report.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0. 6% to 17,419. 42. Sensetime shares fell 5. 6%, after falling as much as 9%, after short seller Grizzly Research accused the synthetic intelligence software company of inflating its revenue.
In a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Sensetime said the allegations were “baseless” and demonstrated a lack of financial and business information from the company.
Elsewhere, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed down 0. 1% at 33,408. 39, while the broader Topix index fell 0. 2% to 2,376. 71.
South Korea’s Kospi jumped 0. 8 basis points to 2,514. 45 and the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0. 1 percent to 3,034. 80.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average of the 30 largest U. S. fell 0. 2% on Monday to 35,333. 47.
Benchmark 10-year U. S. Treasuries reduced foundation issuances to 4. 394%.
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