Profit warnings this week
Profit warnings this week. Should we be more concerned about the profit warnings issued this week? Is it just individual company performance or a more wider concern? I don’t know. Dixons Carphone PLC (DG.), WPP Group PLC (WPP) and Provident Financial PLC (PFG) fired profit warnings at us for varying …
Jackson Hole meeting
Much is being made by the media of the Jackson Hole meeting on Friday. I think after years of stimulus brought on by the global financial crisis it has to be time to move back to a more ‘normal’ environment – whatever ‘normal’ is now. Debt has been fuelled by …
Lower on Wall Street
Lower on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower yesterday (24/08/17) to close below 21800 at 21783. The S&P 500 closed at 2438. Investor uncertainty continues ahead of the central bankers gathering at Jackson Hole on Friday.