Market Report
Sunday share tips: Saga, Arena Events, G4S
Saga shares were branded 'avoid' in the Sunday Times' Inside the City column, even though its debt has been shrinking and its profits rising, in contrast with former stablemate, the AA. The share price has also recently been on the way down after warning on profits in early December due to higher costs and "more challenging trading” in insurance broking, with growth in underlying profit before tax expected to be between 1% and 2% for the year to 31 January 2018.
Sunday newspaper round-up: Interest rates, Brexit, RBS, Lloyds, O2 IPO
Signs of accelerating wage growth have convinced a deputy governor of the Bank of England that swifter rises in interest rates are needed. The change of heart for Sir Dave Ramsden, until now one of the doves on the Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC), will add to a growing conviction in the City that a further increase to 0. 75% is coming in May. - Sunday Times .