More than a quarter (26 per cent) of people facing retirement in the country do not know how much money they have got in their pension pots, new research from Retirement Advantage shows. Those that can estimate on average believe that they have a pension pot worth just over £110,000. However, …
Read More »HSBC closes a quarter of branches, as 1,000 banks shut for good
Image copyright Getty Images HSBC has closed more than a quarter of its UK branches over the last two years, as part of 1,000 bank closures in total, research by Which? has found. The consumer organisation says that HSBC closed 321 branches since January 2015, or 27% of its network. …
Read More »Japan’s third-quarter growth rate revised down sharply
Image copyright Getty Images Japan’s economy grew much slower than initially estimated in the third quarter of the year, figures have revealed, as business investment fell. The Cabinet Office said the economy grew 1.3% in the three months to the end of September, compared to the same period a year …
Read More »Square beats its fourth-quarter revenue expectations
Square, which has been on a bit of a run lately, posted a quarter where it beat revenue estimates and saw its shares pop slightly after it reported its fourth-quarter earnings. This was Square’s first time reporting quarterly earnings as a public company, and it looks like the results weren’t …
Read More »Jack Dorsey gets a much-needed strong second quarter performance from Square
Jack Dorsey really needs a hit. After Twitter’s weak second-quarter showing, and both stocks not performing well in the past year, Dorsey — as the lead of both companies — needs to show investors his strategies are working (and that he can run both companies). Well, he certainly got one …
Read More »Jack Dorsey gets another break with a strong third quarter from Square
While Jack Dorsey’s other company Twitter might be struggling, Square continues on a roll that’s keeping Wall Street happy. There’s going to, as always, be a big question mark for Square because of Dorsey’s tenure at Twitter — which is hardly going well. While the company’s latest quarter showed a flash …
Read More »What to expect for Apple’s second-quarter results
Apple will report its second-quarter earnings, and all eyes are going to be on the company’s iPhone sales. That’s because the big question for Apple is going to be whether or not iPhone sales have hit a wall and that the company will see a year-over-year decline in revenue, marking …
Read More »Everything you need to know about Apple’s huge second-quarter miss
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Read More »Apple’s MacBook Shipments Increased By 30% Last Quarter
According to a recent report sales of Apple’s MacBook’s were up buy around 30% in their last quarter. The news comes in a report from TrendForce who have released that shipments of Apple’s notebooks were up by 30.3%. The new 12 inch Retina MacBook apparently helped Apple increase sales of …
Read More »Ubisoft Saw Most Of Their Sales Come From PS4 Last Quarter
Ubisoft have released their latest financial report, for the financial quarter that just ended on June 3, and while there’s a lot of information there for us to sort through and report on, one thing that instantly stands out is Ubisoft’s breakdown of their product sales by platform. It appears …
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