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Aston Martin shares rev up as confidence grows in second-half production ramp

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1052566/aston-martin-shares-rev-up-as-confidence-grows-in-second-half-production-ramp-1052566.html

SP up 11% 📈🚀

Aston Martin's management team will host a video webcast presentation and live Q&A at 8am (BST) today. Details can be found on page 4 of this announcement and online at www.astonmartinlagonda.com/investors

Porsche cut its sales and profit outlook on Tuesday due to an unexpected aluminium alloy supply shortage

Hope this doesn't affect tomorrow's figures

Podcast specialist Audioboom Group PLC blamed changes to the way Apple devices download content for modest revenue growth in its latest half-year.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1052471/audioboom-blames-apple-software-change-for-slower-growth-1052471.html

Aston Martin have tabled a significant offer to Adrian Newey to sign for the team from next season, worth up to €100million

https://www.planetf1.com/news/adrian-newey-reported-100m-offer-aston-martin

July 22 (Reuters) - China surprised markets by lowering a key short-term policy rate and its benchmark lending rates on Monday, in efforts to boost growth in the world's second-largest economy.

The cuts come after China last week reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter economic data and its top leaders met for a plenum that occurs roughly every five years.

The country is verging on deflation and faces a prolonged property crisis, surging debt and weak consumer and business sentiment. Trade tensions are also flaring, as global leaders grow increasingly wary of China's export dominance.

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Lloyds, Barclays, NatWest and HSBC shares fall as IT outage impacts banks

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1052259/lloyds-barclays-natwest-and-hsbc-shares-fall-as-it-outage-impacts-banks-1052259.html

Reports are emerging of a widespread Windows failure that is bringing down the systems of the emergency services, banks, airports and more.

Windows machines are reportedly failing to boot, with unconfirmed reports suggesting the problem lies with the software of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/07/19/huge-windows-blackout-hits-banks-airports-and-more/

A strong start is predicted for the FTSE 100 on Thursday morning, following a big sell-off on Wall Street overnight, fresh UK jobs numbers that look mostly in-line with expectations and ahead of the European Central Bank meeting later.

Spread-betters predict the London benchmark will jump 58 points

The FTSE 100 started on the back foot on a cautious reading of the latest inflation numbers. London’s blue-chip index was down 11 at 8,153 in early trades.

UK inflation remained in line with the Bank of England's 2% year-on-year target last month. The consumer price index rose 0.1% over the month of June, as expected, which meant the annual rise in CPI remained at 2.0% for the second month running.

Economists suggested that might postpone an interest rate cut until September.

LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - British inflation held at 2.0% last month, defying forecasts for a slight fall, and underlying price pressures persisted, maintaining uncertainty about the date of the Bank of England's first interest rate cut since 2020.

The Dow surged over 700 points on Tuesday to close at an all-time high.

At the close, the Dow had gained nearly 1.9% to finish at 40,928 while the S&P 500 also set a record at 5,667 for a 0.6% rise and the Nasdaq reversed earlier losses to finish 0.2% ahead at 18,509.

The rally was driven by optimism around potential Fed rate cuts, reinforced by flat but better-than-expected June retail sales data.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1052011/dow-jones-s-p-500-reach-new-highs-on-september-rate-cut-hopes-1052011.html

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The FTSE 100 is expected to extend its losses on Tuesday despite more record highs achieved overnight on Wall Street.

Continuing where it left off the day before, London's blue-chip index is heading for a 42-point drop

A member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting panel has said the Bank should ease the strain on households and cut interest rates now.

Swati Dhingra, widely seen as the most dovish member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said that “demand is soft enough” to prevent any resurgence in inflation even though wage pressures remain strong.

“I don’t see some kind of consumption boom,” she told The Rest is Money podcast in an interview broadcast on Monday. She argued it would “take some time” for the impact of interest rate cuts to “feed into the real economy”.

https://www.cityam.com/household-demand-soft-enough-to-cut-interest-rates-bank-of-englands-dhingra-says/

The FTSE 100 is set to start lower on Monday as the sombre mood continues from England’s defeat by Spain in the Euros final.

Spread-betters have tipped the London equity benchmark for a 38-point drop

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Investors are looking at UK markets as a potential haven as political uncertainty rises in the U.S. and elsewhere in Europe, in what could mark a stunning turnaround for a country that appeared to have lost its traditional appeal to global capital.