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- Barratt dives on renewed covenant concerns
- Market Report A WARNING that Barratt Developments may have to rework its financial covenants for a second time undermined confidence around the housebuilder, which slumped towards the bottom end of the FTSE 250 with losses of almost 17 per cent last night. Investors were relieved...
- Research articles 2009-01-24
- Main Movers
- UP Man 256p (up 16p, 6.67 per cent) Well-received update on net asset values. Sage 167.8p (up 10p, 6.34 per cent) Jumps ahead after posting "solid" final results. Carnival 1411p (up 64p, 4.75 per cent) World oil prices fall on recessionary fears. ...
- Research articles 2008-12-04
- Main Movers
- UP Kazakhmys 397.25p (up 59.5p, 17.62 per cent) Supplements earlier gains as investors maintain search for bargains. UP Wood Group 282p (up 41.75p, 17.38 per cent) Oil prices rise as dollar falls against the euro. UP Vedanta Resources 999.5p (up 87.5p, 9.59 per cent)...
- Research articles 2008-11-05
- Banks and insurers savaged in Lehman-led rout
- MARKET REPORT TRADERS ACROSS the City had their tin hats and waterproofs out yesterday, after the US's "Bloody Sunday" hit London. As expected, there was talk of nothing else in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an investment bank that was not so...
- Research articles 2008-09-16
- New members in 90% club
- Barratt Developments, Bradford & Bingley and Taylor Wimpey have tumbled into the 90 per cent club in a sign of suffering in the housing sector, according to market research firm DigitalLook.com. The club is made up of companies whose shares are worth just 10 per cent of their...
- Research articles 2008-08-17
- Business Digest
- Cost of insuring a car tops 500 a year *The average cost of insuring a car has broken the 500-a-year barrier, increasing by 6 per cent in just 12 months. The average premium was 514.36 in June this year, compared with 486.13 in July 2007. Those under 25...
- Research articles 2008-08-12
- Baptism of fire for the chief of one of the UK's biggest
- The housing sector is going through a torrid time. But Mark Clare, chief executive of Barratt Developments, feels it is well placed. By Nick Clark A day in the life of ... 6am THE alarm clock sounds on the dot of 6am, and Mark Clare's...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- STOCKS FOCUS: BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS
- BARRATT Developments joined other UK housebuilders by confirming it is shedding jobs due to the housing slump and a squeeze on mortgage lending. The company, which employs 6700 staff, said it was cutting 1200 jobs by closing two divisions and merging other parts of its business. Barratt said...
- Research articles 2008-07-13
- Real killer for equity values is not the earnings outlook but the
- OUTLOOK Another cocktail of bad news from the housing market yesterday shouldn't be allowed to hide the fact that on a 10-year view housing has remained a much better investment than the stock market. Even in the extreme circumstances of a 40 per cent correction in house prices...
- Research articles 2008-07-11
- Barratt secures new finance but cuts 1,200 staff and dividend
- Barratt Developments is cutting 1,200 jobs, scrapping its final dividend and writing down the value of its land bank by 85m, as sales plummet to just half the level of a year ago. The whole housebuilding sector is reeling from the effects of the credit crunch on the...
- Research articles 2008-07-11
- Can struggling Barratt construct a recovery?
- THE WEEK AHEAD The housebuilder Barratt Developments, which is due to publish a trading update on Thursday, has been among the hardest hit as investors sell out of the embattled housing sector, and the market is looking forward to more clarity on the company's negotiations with lenders. ...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Builders brace for brickbats from the Square Mile
- The extent of the collapse in the housebuilding market will be revealed this week with trading statements from Barratt Developments and Persimmon, two of the sector's big three. The other giant, Taylor Wimpey, shocked the City last week by failing to complete a 500m attempt to raise funding...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- They partied like it was '89. And now the pain is like '91
- Housebuilders ploughed on with their growth plans at the top of the market and now they're paying the price, finds Mark Leftly Once again, Tony Pidgley, the Barnardo's boy turned multimillionaire residential builder, is set to make a killing out of a property downturn. While his peers at...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- Mainmovers
- ASOS 354p (up 27p, 8.26 per cent) Positive final results. Grainger 215p (up 13.25p, 6.57 per cent) Reguis says it is not in position to approach company. Cobham 197.8p (up 11.4p, 6.12 per cent) Cheered by BAE Systems- VT surface fleet joint venture. HMV...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Builders in crisis as Taylor Wimpey seeks rescue
- The crisis facing Britain's beleaguered housebuilders is set to come to a head this week,on news that Taylor Wimpeyhas turned to investors toraise up to 500m in emergency funds. Britain's second largest housebuilder is today expected to confirm talks with investors to raise between 400m and 500m as...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Property shares plunge again after Credit Suisse warning
- Shares in the already beleaguered housebuilding sector plunged again yesterday on an extremely bearish research note from Credit Suisse. Shares in Barratt Developments fell another 6 per cent; those in Persimmon dropped by 11 per cent; Bellway by 6 per cent; Taylor Wimpey by 3 per cent. Indebtedness...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Bankers have little option but to keep our beleaguered housebuilders
- OUTLOOK Another day, another ber-bearish broker's note on the beleaguered housebuilding sector - this one from Credit Suisse. There's good reason to be gloomy. Even seasoned practitioners with experience going back to the mid-1970s cannot remember a crisis quite as traumatic as the present one. For...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Dirt cheap doesn't mean it's a bargain
- PRIVATE INVESTOR Looks like I managed to call the house-builders right. My sixth sense, if you like, told me they were a bad bet, even at the current depressed valuations. Well, when I say sixth sense, I suppose I really mean the published accounts and trading statements, especially...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- Main movers
- AAntofagasta 665p (up 30p, 4.72 per cent) Esperanza project gets environmental approval. ABovis Homes 371.5p (up 25.75p, 7.45 per cent) Sector rally with Barratt Developments. AAshtead 72p (up 3p, 4.35 per cent) Ahead of results, due next week. ALeed Petroleum 61p (up 3p, 5.17...
- Research articles 2008-06-21
- The City Diary
- EMAIL your best diary stories to s.evans@independent.co.uk for a chance to win a bottle of 12-year-old single malt from Bruichladdich - the progressive Hebridean Distillers. Parental guidance recommended: futures stars take to the stage AND SO TO THE FEEL-GOOD. Last week's shindig at the Royal Courts...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
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