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Market Wrap: Barclays' full-year profits nearly treble

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Market Wrap: Barclays' full-year profits nearly treble
Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help put the day's events in context, Simon was joined by Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher. On today's show: Barclays has seen a jump in its annual pre-tax profits which nearly treble; British Gas owner Centrica has reported an annual pre-tax profit of £2.2bn, against a loss of £1.1bn the year before; pressure on the sales of French bonds eased earlier today, as the likelihood of a win for Marine Le Pen decreased. All this and much more on the Market Wrap.
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Ed Bowsher


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Will Article 50 derail the recovery of UK banks?

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Will Article 50 derail the recovery of UK banks?
Will all the controversy around triggering Article 50 derail UK banks recovery? With HSBC shares sliding today after it announced a fall in profits of 62% from last year, there is concern that the recovery seen by some banks could be hurt by the process of the UK leaving the EU. To find out more, Matt Cox spoke to Michael Hewson, Chief Market Analyst at CMC Markets UK.
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Matt Cox, Michael Hewson


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Market Wrap: UK unemployment flat at 11-year low

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Market Wrap: UK unemployment flat at 11-year low
Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help put the day's events in context, Simon was joined by Garry White, Chief Investment Commentator at Charles Stanley Direct, and Paul Sedgewick Head of Investments at Frank Investments. On today's show: UK unemployment has remained flat at 4.8%, the lowest level since 2005; Tata Steel workers have voted in favour of pension cuts in order to save 8,000 jobs; and finally, Lloyds of London have introduced a booze ban.
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Paul Sedgwick, Garry White


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Market Wrap: US job growth beats expectations, Snapchat to float on the NYSE, UK service sector growth slows

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Market Wrap: US job growth beats expectations, Snapchat to float on the NYSE, UK service sector growth slows
Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help put the day's events in context I'm joined by Ed Bowsher, Share Radio's senior analyst. They discussed US non-farm payroll adding 227,000 jobs last month and reaching its highest growth rate since last July, Snapchat parent Snap's plan to sell its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, and the slower growth of UK's dominant service in January.
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Ed Bowsher


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The Magazine Review: featuring Kyle Caldwell and Jonathan Compton

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The Magazine Review: featuring Kyle Caldwell and Jonathan Compton
This is The Magazine Review, Share Radio's look at the top political and financial stories of the week under the forensic eye of expert guests. Today's brains are Kyle Caldwell, Deputy Editor at Money Observer and Jonathan Compton, writer for MoneyWeek.
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Kyle Caldwell, Jonathan Compton


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Market Wrap: BoE upgrades 2017 UK growth forecast, Reckitt targets Mead Johnson with £13.2 bln bid, Sports Direct grabs 11% stake in French Connection

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Market Wrap: BoE upgrades 2017 UK growth forecast, Reckitt targets Mead Johnson with £13.2 bln bid, Sports Direct grabs 11% stake in French Connection
Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the businesses of Britain and the world. To help put the day's events in context I'm joined by Ed Bowsher, Share Radio's senior analyst. They discussed the Bank of England's prediction that the UK economy will grow by 2% in 2017, Reckitt Benckiser's plan to buy Mead Johnson Nutrition in a $16.7bn deal, worth £13.2bn that would boost its Asian business, and Sports Direct being identified as the ultimate owner of an 11% stake in French Connection.
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Ed Bowsher


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Market Wrap: Tesco's shares up over 9%, BT quarterly profits drop 37%, Alliance Trust agrees to buy out Elliott and more - with AJ Bell's Russ Mould

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Market Wrap: Tesco's shares up over 9%, BT quarterly profits drop 37%, Alliance Trust agrees to buy out Elliott and more - with AJ Bell's Russ Mould
Join Share Radio's Simon Rose as he investigates what has been happening in the bourses and businesses of Britain and the world. To put the day's events in context, he was joined by Russ Mould, Investment Director at the online stockbrokers, AJ Bell. In today's wrap: the UK's biggest supermarket group, Tesco, has agreed to buy the UK's biggest food wholesaler, Booker Group; quarterly profits at BT have dropped 37%; Alliance Trust has agreed to buy out Elliott, a US activist investor that spent years pushing for management and structural changes at the Dundee-based financial services group; and the mortgage lender Paragon has reported that first quarter profits are in line with expectations due to cost controls and good trends in high margins and volumes.
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Russ Mould


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Market Wrap: UK's GDP beats forecast, FTSE 100 flat, RBS sets aside $3.8 bln to cover fines, Sky's 9% fall in operating profits

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Market Wrap: UK's GDP beats forecast, FTSE 100 flat, RBS sets aside $3.8 bln to cover fines, Sky's 9% fall in operating profits
Share Radio's Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the bourses and businesses of Britain and the world. To help contextualise the day's events, Simon was joined by Share Radio's senior analyst Ed Bowsher. They talked about UK's economy growing faster than expected, the pound dropping below $1.26 while the FTSE 100 turned flat, The Royal Bank of Scotland setting aside a further $3.8bn to cover fines in the US, and the 9% fall in operating profits for Sky due to the rising cost of the Premiere League's broadcast rights.
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Ed Bowsher


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Market Wrap: Chancellor on investment during Brexit, UK retails drop 1.9% in December, Synthomer rise to the top of FTSE 250 and more

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Market Wrap: Chancellor on investment during Brexit, UK retails drop 1.9% in December, Synthomer rise to the top of FTSE 250 and more
Simon Rose brings you Market Wrap, a roundup of what's been happening in the bourses and businesses of Britain and the world. To help contextualise the day's events, Simon was joined by Share Radio's senior analyst Ed Bowsher. They discussed Chancellor Philip Hammond's comment that Brexit uncertainty could cause firms to delay investment, UK retail sales in December dropping 1.9% from November, chemicals maker Synthomer jumping to the top of the FTSE 250 index, and UK's largest housebuilder Barratt Developments Chief Financial Officer's decision to leave the company with immediate effect after disagreements with other senior staff.
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Ed Bowsher


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Has the weak sterling hurt the small cap market?

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Has the weak sterling hurt the small cap market?
The FTSE 100 has been hitting record highs since the start of 2017 with a weaker pound boosting the UK's main stock index. But what effect has a weak sterling had on the small cap's market? David Thornton, editor of the Growth Company Investor, joined Share Radio's Simon Rose for more on this subject.
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David Thornton


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