Proactiveinvestors United Kingdom – MSN – ETFs RSS feed http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fftr.fivefilters.org%2Fmakefulltextfeed.php%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.proactiveinvestors.co.uk%252Fsectors%252Frss%252F148%252Frss.xml%26max%3D5&max=5 Proactiveinvestors United Kingdom – MSN – ETFs feed Hipgnosis Songs issues shares at modest discount https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/218488/hipgnosis-songs-issues-shares-at-modest-discount-218488.html https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/218488/hipgnosis-songs-issues-shares-at-modest-discount-218488.html <div><img src=”https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/thumbs/upload/News/Image/2019_04/1200z630_1555055851_bank-17816_1280.jpg” class=”ff-og-image-inserted”></div><p> After stumping up for a music catalogue on Tuesday,&nbsp;<a class=”companyPopupTrigger” href=”https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/LON:SONG/Hipgnosis-Songs-Fund-Limited/” rel=”15910″>Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited</a> (<a class=”companyPopupTrigger” href=”https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/LON:SONG/Hipgnosis-Songs-Fund-Limited/” rel=”15910″>LON:SONG</a>) today tapped the market for up to £100mln.</p> <p> The fund, …

Banks are certain to soon be wading through a flood of bad debts and write-downs as the coronavirus pandemic hits companies from airlines to pubs and restaurants, but analysts are confident of the sector’s ability to cope. Sector shares have slumped hard over these fears, as well about some banks’ exposure to the oil sector, where major write-downs are likely after the oil …

Mortgage-focused Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY) and OneSavings Bank PLC (LON:OSB) have been provided a boost by the Bank of England’s emergency rate cut earlier Wednesday. However, the UK’s High Street lenders were put on notice by the Prudential Regulation Authority, which told them not to waste cash on boosting dividends and bonuses. Not too many investors will shed a …

UK high street banks are offering payment holidays and other support to business and residential customers who are in difficulty because of the coronavirus outbreak. The move from the UK banks came on the same day that Italy’s government said payments on residential mortgages will be suspended for the whole country after a national quarantine lockdown was imposed. Analysts noted that the proportion …

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY) would least exposed to some of the new fears hitting the banking sector, analysts at RBC Capital Markets said, though the sector is expected to hit profits across the sector. RBC ran its own stress tests to analyse potential market scenarios with a large theoretical hit to credit quality and provisions for oil exposure.  READ: …

Schroders PLC’s (LON:SDR) underlying profits fell in 2019 but the asset manager reported record levels of new business after forming a new wealth management joint venture and restructuring its investment business. The group’s structural changes were designed to realign the business towards areas of expected future growth such as China and wealth management, plus the £90.6mln acquisition of sustainable investment-focused …

Bob Diamond is to be re-united with Rich Ricci, his former deputy at Barclays after he appointed him as the new chief executive of Panmure Gordon. Diamond and Ricci were part of a trio (along with Jerry del Missier) that ran Barclays’ investment arm and who at the height of their power were among the biggest names in world banking. Bob …

Greggs PLC (LON:GRG) has seen a “significant” slowdown in sales growth as storms lashed the UK in February though it kept full-year expectations unchanged. Like-for-like (LFL) sales were up 7.5% in the nine weeks to the end of last month compared with 9.2% in 2019. READ: HSBC takes a bite out of Greggs and Restaurant Group Analysts at Peel Hunt said this result was …

A quartet of European airlines have had their target prices cut by HSBC as the investment bank said the coronavirus outbreak presented “a new challenge” for the carriers. In a note on Tuesday, the bank said demand for air travel across Europe had “weakened broadly” since the disease arrived on the continent earlier this year and that it was currently …

Ninety One PLC expects to have market capitalisation of £1.75-2.2bn when it demerges from Investec PLC (LON:INVP) and floats in London and Johannesburg later this month. The asset manager on Monday confirmed its expected offer price of 190-235p per share. Investec will raise between £182mln and £226mln from the offer, with Ninety One not receiving any proceeds. With a free float of …