Editorial

Global Stock Markets take A Nosedive amid death toll of Coronavirus crossing 80
January 28, 2020 11:46 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyHeadline: World indices took a nosedive on Monday (January 27, 2020), traded significantly lower amid escalating concerns over the acuteness and deadly impacts of coronavirus to speedy fanout across China and to 10 other countries. The deadly impact...

UK Mortgages at ten-year highs buoyed by low interest rates and general election results
January 28, 2020 10:23 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyThe General mood in the United Kingdom is a jubilant one since the December 2019 general election results came out. It seems the biggest drag on the general sentiments of the people in the country has been eliminated once the clarity on the modalitie...

Brunel Pension Partnership: Financial Services Sector Not Capable Of Addressing Climate Change
January 28, 2020 03:12 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaIn an ambitious new climate policy, £30 billion British pension fund, Brunel Pension Partnership, one of the eight pooled Local Government Pension Scheme funds across the UK, has called for a financial system, which is more climate aware. The entity...

Cap To Be Imposed On Chinese Tech Group Huawei’s Market Share In UK
January 28, 2020 12:58 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyThe availability of telecoms infrastructure allows communication in the form of voice or data to be shared across the world, which is made possible by the telecom services providers. The telecom industry serves as the backbone of economic and social...

Latest Developments on Brexit
January 28, 2020 12:53 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyThe UK is all set to deliver first stage Brexit on January 31, 2020, and then fall into a 11-months long transition period, in which both sides have to complete a future comprehensive agreement ranging from the border, trade to fishing. Also, it is w...

How To Identify And Pick Dividend Stocks For Growth?
January 28, 2020 12:51 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaHow to identify dividend-paying stocks? Making investments into dividend-paying stocks is extremely important for the purpose of growth, as dividend stocks allow earnings for the investors, apart from the capital gains that can be made due to the in...

Pressure eases on Bank of England to cut rates
January 27, 2020 10:58 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyIts been a catch 22 position for the Bank of England for the past few months. The bank had almost run out of options by the year-end 2019 when easing of rates any more than the prevailing levels would have led to the British Economy falling into a li...

How The UK Lost Its Place As The Global Financial Hub?
January 27, 2020 10:38 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaHow the UK became the financial capital of the world? The U.K. is the biggest net exporter of banking and financial services and London, with its suitable time zone, use of the top spoken global language across the world - English, as well as conven...

Coronavirus, The Epidemic in the Making, & how United Kingdom is responding
January 26, 2020 09:30 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaAfter the Deadly threats of Bird Flu, Swine flu, Zika virus and SARS, now a new global viral threat is emerging. This is being spread by what is known as Coronavirus, which is a new strain of the virus previously responsible for the SARS epidemic. Fi...

Jingye seals the deal with trade unions & finalizes the acquisition of British Steel
January 25, 2020 12:08 AM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneySince its inception in 2016 steel maker British Steel Limited had a tough journey till now. The company, founded by assets acquired by British Investment company Greybull Capital from Tata Steel UK, is now finding its way into the hands of Chinese st...

Evaluating the business performances of LSE listed SMWH, ENOG, PETS and SGE
January 23, 2020 07:43 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaWH Smith Plc WH Smith Plc (LON: SMWH) is a UK based company that is into the retail business. The company was incorporated in the year 1792 and is headquartered in Swindon, the United Kingdom. The company operates worldwide in the United Kingdom, th...

UK could tap into Africa's $24bn market for off-grid solar power
January 23, 2020 09:45 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyAs the economic situation in the United Kingdom is about to take a turn for the better, the country is looking at new investment avenues to create value. The latest among such opportunities that investors of the country are looking for is the African...

Brexit Saga And Sajid Javid’s Highly Ambitious Economic Growth Outlook
January 22, 2020 11:49 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaHouse of Lords defeated PM Johnson’s government on Brexit legislation British Prime Minister witnessed the fourth defeat for his Withdrawal legislation, when members of the House of Lords (British Parliament's upper chamber) voted on January 21, 202...

UK Employment data springs a surprise again in the Month of January 2020
January 22, 2020 11:31 PM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyThe employment data of United Kingdom has surprised again. The data released on 21 January 2020 by the Office of National Statistics has confirmed growth for the second consecutive month. While in the month of December 2019, employment data in the co...

The Ambitious British High Speed 2 Rail Project just got pricier
January 22, 2020 04:09 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaHigh Speed 2 or HS2 as it is popularly known is a high speed railways project currently under implementation in the United Kingdom. The project which received the British Parliament’s approval in 2017 will be connecting twenty-one important destinati...

Four AIM Stocks Trending Higher In The First Month Of 2020: AFX, BOO, BREE And CTH
January 22, 2020 03:26 AM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaAIM stocks registered new 52-week highs in January 2020. Oscillating near their 52w peak price level. The Alternative Investment Market-segment (AIM), which typically represents a portfolio of the UK's small-caps and penny-cap stocks li...

Beales Going Into Administration Reveals A Stark Reality Of The UK Retail Sector
January 22, 2020 12:09 AM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyUK’s Retail Sector Performance In December As widely reported, Retail sector’s performance in the United Kingdom in 2019 had been the worst in the last 24 years, marked by a decline of 0.6 per cent in sales in the month of December. The office of Na...

Brexit update: Sajid Javid’s non-alignment vow is further escalating the Brexit saga
January 21, 2020 10:56 PM AEDT| By Hina ChowdharyWith nine days to go before Britain leaves the European Union, it looks that if past three and half years have been harsh and steeply volatile, the next 11 months of post-Brexit transition could be even worse. The UK and EU are already in disagreemen...

Are Private Equity Investments Gobbling Up The Public Companies In The United Kingdom?
January 21, 2020 10:05 PM AEDT| By Kunal SawhneyPrivate Equity Landscape in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom has established its place as the European Union’s largest private equity space in terms of deal value by a convenient margin, despite such a challenging economic as well as business...

Top 5 Health Care FTSE Stocks To Watch: NMC, AZN, GSK, SN. & HIK
January 21, 2020 08:57 PM AEDT| By Team Kalkine MediaUnited Kingdom’s Healthcare Industry The United Kingdom is one of the world’s leading nations in marketing and manufacturing of clinical pharmaceuticals and products. The world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies have their presence in the UK, apart...
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