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Θετικά πρόσημα καταγράφηκαν σήμερα στα ευρωπαϊκά χρηματιστήρια, έπειτα από την νέα ανακοίνωση της ιταλικής κυβέρνησης σχετικά με τον επιπλέον φόρο στα έκτακτα κέρδη των ιταλικών τραπεζών, αναφέροντας ότι αυτός δεν θα ξεπερνά το 0,1% των περιουσιακών στοιχείων αυτών.
Η Γερμανία προέβη σήμερα στην έκδοση δεκαετούς ομολόγου, με το κουπόνι να διαμορφώνεται στο 2,46% έναντι 2,64% της αντίστοιχης προηγούμενης έκδοσης.
Ο δείκτης Eurostoxx 600 έκλεισε στις 460,28 μονάδες με άνοδο 0,37%.
Στην Φρανκφούρτη ο δείκτης DAX έκλεισε στις 15.851,15 μονάδες με άνοδο 0,48%, παραμένοντας με σήμα strong sell, με την στήριξη να βρίσκεται στις 15.143 μονάδες.
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Στο Λονδίνο ο δείκτης FTSE 100 έκλεισε στις 7.589,72 μονάδες με άνοδο 0,83%, μετατρέποντας το σήμα από strong sell σε neutral, με την αντίσταση να βρίσκεται στις 7.911 μονάδες και την στήριξη στις 6.972 μονάδες.
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Στο Παρίσι ο δείκτης CAC 40 έκλεισε στις 7.319,66 μονάδες με άνοδο 0,69%, παραμένοντας με σήμα strong sell, με την αντίσταση να βρίσκεται στις 7.599 μονάδες και την στήριξη στις 6.931 μονάδες.
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Εταιρικά νέα
ABN AMRO Bank posted operating income and net profit ahead of expectations for the second quarter of 2023, driven by a higher interest-rate environment and impairment releases, and updated its cost guidance. The Dutch lender on Wednesday posted a net profit of 870 million euros ($953.4 million) for the three months ended June 30 compared with the EUR547 million expected by a company-complied consensus and with EUR475 million in the same period the previous year. The bank’s operating income for the period rose 18% on year to EUR2.22 billion, against consensus’ EUR2.16 billion. Net interest income contributed EUR1.62 billion, in line with analysts’ expectations. It released EUR69 million in impairments, while a EUR110 million charge had been expected. ABN AMRO’s common equity Tier 1 capital ratio–a measure of a bank’s resilience–stood at 14.9%, slightly below expectations of 15.0%. It declared an interim dividend of EUR0.62 a share. The bank lowered its cost guidance for 2023 to EUR5.2 billion euros, from EUR5.3 billion previously. It added it doesn’t expect to meet its 2024 cost target of EUR4.7 billion due to the spillover of investments from the current year, higher inflation and the more gradual reduction of anti-money laundering costs.
E.ON raised its forecast for the full year after registering a rise in adjusted earnings for the second quarter due to more stable wholesale energy prices.
The German utility company said Wednesday that it now expects adjusted net income of between 2.7 billion and 2.9 billion euros ($2.96 billion-$3.18 billion) in 2023 from EUR2.3 billion-EUR2.5 billion previously. Adjusted Ebitda is seen in a range of EUR8.6 billion-EUR8.8 billion from previous expectations of EUR7.8 billion-EUR8 billion. For the second quarter, E.ON reported net profit of EUR1.16 billion compared with EUR1.43 billion in the year-earlier period. On an adjusted basis, net income rose to EUR1.28 billion from EUR730 million. Adjusted Ebitda increased to EUR2.95 billion from EUR1.28 billion, while sales for the quarter fell to EUR18.82 billion from EUR23.34 billion, partly due to lower levels of prices compared with the prior year on commodity transactions. “The historically high power and gas procurement costs were a big challenge for us last year,” Chief Executive Leonhard Birnbaum said. “Now we see that wholesale markets are calming down again. As announced, this will enable us to again lower prices for millions of power and gas customers.”
4imprint Group said pretax profit rose for the first half as revenue grew on customer demand reaching record levels, and backed its guidance for the year. The FTSE 250 promotional-products company said Wednesday that for the 26 weeks ended July 1 pretax profit was $66 million compared with $43.9 million the year before. Revenue rose to $635.5 million from $515.5 million. The company said it acquired 158,000 new customers in the period compared with 146,000 last year, and that total orders rose to 1.0 million from 886,000, adding that average order values rose 1% and the contributing to total demand revenue–this being the value of orders received–was 20% greater than the same period in 2022. “Orders from retained customers were stable, settling back into predictable cohorts and showing typical or even slightly improved retention characteristics after the major disruption caused by the pandemic,” it said. The board declared an interim dividend of 65.0 cents a share, compared with 40.0 cents last year. The company said full-year group revenue will be slightly above $1.3 billion, with pretax profit being not less than $125 million.
TUI said it expects a very good summer this year as it recorded strong growth in its activities segment and an overall strong booking performance from its tour operators, and reported it was back in profit for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The London-listed German travel operator said Wednesday that current summer bookings were 6% higher on year at encouraging price levels, with 86% of capacity for summer already sold, and group-wide bookings at 95% of the levels seen in summer 2019. For the April-to-June period TUI recorded high holidays demand and saw the number of guests rising to 5.5 million from 5.1 million. The company said that for the quarter ended June 30 earnings before interest and taxes were 175.4 million euros ($192.2 million) compared with an EBIT loss of EUR42.5 million the year prior, as customer demand growth boosted earnings. Underlying EBIT–one of the company’s preferred metrics which strips out exceptional and other one-off items–was EUR169.4 million compared with a loss of EUR27 million. TUI said that for fiscal 2023 it expects to report a significant improvement in underlying EBIT. Revenue rose to EUR5.29 billion from EUR4.43 billion. One analyst polled by FactSet had a revenue estimate of EUR5.01 billion. “Summer 23 is going very well, demand for holidays remains high. It will be a good full year for TUI with a significant year-on-year improvement in earnings. We are driving the transformation forward and investing in additional revenue and earnings areas to continue to grow profitably in the future,” Chief Executive Sebastian Ebel said. The company said it expects costs stemming from the recent wildfires in Rhodes, Greece, to be around EUR25 million, and that it will cushion the effect of similar events to a greater extent in future.
Polymetal International reported a rise in revenue for the second quarter and backed full-year production guidance despite current disruptions to concentrate shipments. Russia’s second largest gold producer said Wednesday that revenue for the three months ended June 30 was $581 million compared with $433 million a year earlier. Gold-equivalent production for the quarter grew by 22% on year to 423,000 ounces, driven by increases within Russian operations. Polymetal backed full-year production guidance of 1.7 million ounces of gold equivalent. However, the group has continued to experience logistical disruptions of concentrate shipments and expects to resolve the issue by the fourth quarter, it said.
Velocity Composites said Wednesday that it is planning to raise up to 6.7 million pounds ($8.5 million) via a share placing, subscription and retail offer, and will use the money to boost staffing, for capital expenditure and working capital to expand. The U.K. aerospace-materials supplier has issued 3 million new ordinary shares via the firm placing and subscription at 40 pence each. The issue price is a 13% discount to its closing price of 46.0 pence on Tuesday. In addition, Velocity is issuing 12.5 million shares via an enterprise investment scheme and venture capital trust placing at the issue price, which would benefit from tax advantages. It is also offering shareholders the chance to buy the discounted shares in a retail offer, raising up to GBP500,000. “The funds enable us to grow faster and add additional skilled staff in the aerospace composites market. The board is delighted at the positive response received from investors and their backing of our growth plans at this exciting time,” Chairman Andy Beaden said.
Continental on Wednesday said second-quarter earnings at its automotive business came below analysts’ expectations and cut its outlook for full-year sales. The German car-parts supplier reported net profit of 208.6 million euros ($228.6 million), compared with a net loss EUR250.7 million a year prior. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes came in at EUR497 million compared with EUR401 million, and the corresponding margin was 4.8%, from 4.3% the year earlier. Sales rose to EUR10.4 billion from EUR9.4 billion. Analysts were expecting group sales of EUR10.40 billion, according to a FactSet-compiled poll. “Despite difficult market conditions, our Tires group sector ended the second quarter with good earnings once again” Chief Executive Officer Nikolai Setzer said. “Earnings in Automotive, however, fell short of expectations. Here we will need to make up considerable ground in the second half of the year.” The company said currency effects and continuing costs for special freight weighed on its automotive business. For 2023, Continental lowered its expectations for sales at the group level and the tires division. It said it expects between EUR41.5 billion and EUR44.5 billion in sales, from EUR42 billion-EUR45 billion previously. For the tires division, it forecasts sales of around EUR14 billion to EUR15 billion, compared with EUR14.5 billion to EUR15.5 billion previously.
Coca-Cola HBC lifted its 2023 revenue-growth guidance after pretax profit for the first half rose ahead of market expectations, boosted by price and mix improvements. The London and Athens-listed bottler for Coca-Cola said Wednesday that it currently expects organic revenue growth in the mid-teens, up from the previous target of above 5% to 6%. Costs of goods sold is expected to increase by a high-single digit, down from the previous expectation of a low-teens rise, as inflationary pressures begin to moderate. The company continues to expect organic earnings before interest and taxes growth in the range of 9% to 12%. The group posted a pretax profit of 527.6 million euros ($578.2 million) for the six months to June 30 compared with EUR234.4 million for the same period a year earlier. Pretax profit was forecast by a company-compiled consensus to be EUR478.0 million. Net sales revenue rose to EUR5.02 billion from EUR4.21 billion, below an expected EUR5.05 billion taken from the company’s compiled consensus. The increase was led by the effective delivery of price and mix improvements across all categories and segments, the company said. However, overall organic volume growth declined 1.0%, while analysts expected a fall of 0.8%. “While some markets continue to face a challenging consumer environment, revenue per case has been improved through careful price and mix management enhanced by data, insights and analytics. At the same time, volumes have remained resilient which is testament to the quality of our execution,” Chief Executive Zoran Bogdanovic said.
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