Metcalf Moat IFA Ltd

Independent Financial Advisers based in Petts Wood, Kent.
Metcalf Moat offer independent advice, in a professional and friendly manner.

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Viacom has rejected CBS’s below-market offer for failing to recognise the fair value of the company.

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A US financial services software provider has gatecrashed a planned £1.4 billion acquisition of the UK financial technology company Fidessa by Switzerland’s Temenos.

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Dublin-based C&C Group - which owns Bulmers, Magners and Tennent’s - will acquire the wholesale arm of Conviviality, safeguarding more than 1,800 jobs.

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Zurich-based reinsurer Swiss Re has clarified that Japan's Softbank is considering buying a minority stake of up to 10% - significantly less than the 25% worth $9.6 billion that had been reported previously.

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Struggling Chinese conglomerate Anbang Insurance Group will get Rmb61 billion ($9.7 billion) bailout injection from the China Insurance Security Fund to tide it over until the company can find new long-term investors.

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The environmental group Friends of the Earth said it would file a lawsuit in the Netherlands if Royal Dutch Shell failed to fall into line with the Paris climate agreement.

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Deutsche Bank has roped in former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain for its supervisory board, in a reshuffle seen as strengthening the lender’s commitment to its struggling investment bank arm.

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The struggling retail chain Mothercare has ousted its chief executive Mark Newton-Jones and replaced him with David Wood, previously president of Kmart Holdings.

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Apple has hired Google’s AI chief, John Giannandrea, to run its machine learning and AI operations.

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Smith & Nephew, the FTSE 100 orthopaedics group, has appointed Namal Nawana, a former head of Alere, as chief executive, as the company is facing mounting pressure from Elliott Advisors to break itself up.

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Facebook has revealed that more than a million British Facebook users could have had their personal data accessed by Cambridge Analytica; the social media giant also increased its estimates of the total number of users affected from 50 to 87 million.

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The flooring retailer Topps Tiles reported a slowdown in its second quarter as bad weather and an early Easter dampened sales.

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Peppa Pig's expansion into Asia has boosted earnings in Entertainment One's family division by 50% in the 12 months to 31 March, compared with the previous year.

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John Flint, who took the helm of HSBC in February, is considering further slimming down the lender; he is reviewing up to a quarter of the remaining 67 countries the bank operates in.

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Bahrain has discovered an offshore field, which contains at least 80 billion barrels of shale oil and has estimated 10 trillion-20 trillion cubic feet of deep gas reserves, the kingdom's national oil and gas authority said.

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Fears of a full-blown trade war between the US and China have wiped £1.8trillion off the value of America's leading companies in recent weeks; the two main benchmarks on Wall Street – the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 – have fallen 10% since peaking on 26 January.

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Collapse of Carillion and bad weather that slowed work on building sites and delayed deliveries of materials resulted in the slowdown in the Britain’s struggling construction sector.

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There has been a 20% decline in the number of high-end British homes owned through offshore companies since 2013 after a government crackdown on opaque ownership structures.

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Chinese officials have warned of an all-out trade war with the US after retaliating with a potential list of additional tariffs on key American goods such as soy beans, beef, steel, aluminium, cars, aeroplanes and tobacco.

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French motor group PSA has announced investment of more than £100 million at Vauxhall’s Luton plant to produce new Vauxhall and Opel Vivaro vans, as well as future Peugeot and Citroën models, disregarding uncertain future trading conditions with Europe.