[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images A £10,000 investment in BT Group (LSE:BT.A) shares would now be worth roughly £11,300, combining modest capital growth of 3.2% with dividends. While this return outpaces inflation, it underscores the telecoms giant’s struggle to deliver meaningful shareholder value. Uncertainty galore BT’s stock has lagged the FTSE 100, weighed down by of soaring debts, relentless capital demands, and uncertain profitability timelines. The company’s story is one of balancing long-term infrastructure bets against near-term financial strain. This tug of war has left some investors uncertain. BT’s challenges start with its balance sheet. Net debt ballooned to £20.3bn by…
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[ad_1] Evergrande Group is the latest listed company to unexpectedly teeter on the verge of bankruptcy. When businesses are thrust into public view for the wrong reasons, my first thought is always whether we could have seen the trouble coming ahead of time. As a qualified accountant, I treat the audited financial statements as my first port of call on this question. Many dismiss these as obsolete, incomplete, opaque, and manipulated, and while there is some merit to such critiques, these statements can reveal quite a lot about whether trouble may be on the horizon. To see if Evergrande’s travails…
[ad_1] USD/CAD loses ground as the downbeat economic data reinforce the expectations of the Fed rate cuts. The commodity-linked CAD could face challenges amid weaker crude Oil prices. WTI price faces challenges due to expectations of resumed exports from Kurdistan’s oilfields. USD/CAD offers its recent gains registered in the previous session, trading around 1.4190 during the Asian hours on Monday. The downside of the pair is attributed to the weaker US Dollar (USD) following the downbeat US economic data including Jobless Claims and the S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released last week. The downbeat economic data have reinforced the…
[ad_1] A Chinese national flag, left, and an Indian national flag are arranged for a photograph.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDeepSeek’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence has boosted investor sentiment around China stocks, with a gauge of the country’s onshore as well as offshore shares soaring over 26% since its January low.The surge in Chinese equities comes at a time when Indian stocks have been languishing in correction territory, with experts pointing to a rotation away from India into China.”Every time the China market goes up, the India market goes down,” said Thio Siew Hua, managing director and head of equities…
[ad_1] Junkboat of Hong Kong at NightNikada | E+ | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were mixed Monday after Wall Street logged its worst session of the year last Friday as U.S. economic data pointed to a slowing economy and sticky inflation.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was flat in choppy trading.In South Korea, the Kospi fell 0.62%, while the small-cap Kosdaq was down 0.74%.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was up 0.2%, after notching a nearly three-year high in its previous session.Mainland China’s CSI300 index fell 0.13% in choppy trading.Japanese markets are closed for a public holiday.Singapore is slated to release its inflation numbers for January later in…
[ad_1] By Dharamraj Dhutia and Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – Persistent foreign portfolio outflows may keep the Indian rupee on the defensive this week with the currency taking cues from regional peers, while government bonds will react to liquidity infusions by the central bank. The rupee, rose slightly week-on-week to settle at 86.7125 against the U.S. dollar on Friday. While the local unit’s near-dated realized volatility eased last week, persistent selling of domestic stocks by overseas investors has kept it under pressure, which traders reckon is likely to persist. Foreign investors have net sold over $11 billion of local equities…
[ad_1] Private banks have pared their credit-deposit (CD) ratios as they focus on a deposit growth higher than advances amid tight liquidity conditions. The average CD ratio, also known as loan-to-deposit ratio (LDR), has decreased to 90.74% at the end of the December quarter of the current financial year from 94.4% in the same period of FY24, according to data from Capitaline. However, the average CD ratio of public sector banks, which was relatively lower than that of private lenders, increased to 77.8% in the third quarter of FY25 from 76% in the same quarter of FY24. HDFC Bank, ICICI…
[ad_1] The evening sun shines on the Reichstag building of the German Bundestag with the inscription “Dem Deutschen Volke.Fabian Sommer | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesBERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and the allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal election on Sunday, according to exit polls from German broadcaster ZDF.This puts the party’s lead candidate Friedrich Merz in prime position to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor of Europe’s largest economy.The CDU-CSU won 28.5% of votes, with the far-right AfD in second place with 20% and Scholz’s Social Democratic Party coming…
[ad_1] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement that the Trump administration was pulling federal approval of the congestion pricing program is based on a never-tested interpretation of federal law that Congress never meant to authorize congestion pricing under the law that legalized tolling federally funded highways.So can he do that? On the one hand: no!”The Federal Highway Administration approved congestion pricing and allowed it to start up,” said Michael Gerrard, the founder of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. “It has survived several court challenges. It’s not at all clear that they can legally revoke the…
[ad_1] China’s emergence as a global economy on the world stage is perhaps the biggest economic story of the last 30 years. During the last several decades, China’s industry has modernized, many of its tech companies have debuted on Chinese stock exchanges via initial public offerings (IPOs), and the nation’s markets and exchanges have opened to a degree to overseas investors. China has become more and more integrated into the world economy. Yet despite this trend, China’s stock markets still sometimes move in idiosyncratic ways relative to other world exchanges. Due to short sale constraints, among other features, China’s exchanges…