By: Clara Guibourg

Clara Guibourg is an Online Writer at City A.M. She can be contacted at clara.guibourg@cityam.com. She is particularly passionate about women in business, technology and telecoms.

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These are the seven emerging market funds that are actually performing well after Black Monday

October 14, 2015

Emerging market funds were pummelled hard by Black Monday. But not quite all of them. There are seven emerging markets funds with returns in the double-digits despite the great fall of China and the shockwaves that hit global markets after it. The top performer has been NFU Mutual’s Global Emerging Markets fund, according to data [...]
Black Friday 2015 UK predictions: This year’s event is gearing up to be the UK’s first ever £1bn shopping day

October 14, 2015

With the mania of Black Friday less than two months away, UK shoppers are getting ready to spend more money than they ever have before in one day. Retailers are braced for the biggest shopping day of the year, after last year’s frenzy shocked many unprepared sellers – and this year sales are set to [...]
Domino’s is looking tasty as sales leap by 19 per cent

October 14, 2015

Domino’s sales are looking tasty, after the pizza maker’s revenues jumped by double digits for the eighth consecutive quarter. The company's third quarter sales rose 19.4 per cent in the three months to the end of September, leaping from £179.6m to £214.5m, according to a trading statement released this morning. This growth was powered by digital investments in [...]
Fresnillo share price rises depsite silver production lagging

October 14, 2015

Fresnillo’s silver production is dropping, as a production report for the third quarter showed the ore volume at its biggest silver mine lagging. Production at the FTSE-listed miner’s Fresnillo mine in Mexico dropped by 24 per cent, weighing on the company’s total silver production, which was down by 1.3 per cent over the quarter. The [...]
Chinese economy: Weak inflation figures rekindle investors’ worries over China slowdown

October 14, 2015

Weak data from China pulled Asian markets down overnight, as consumer inflation fell back and producer prices continued their deflation unabated. The country’s consumer price index fell from its 13-month high of two per cent in August to 1.6 per cent in September, dragged by slowing food prices. This is lower than economists had predicted, as [...]
It turns out worker ants are actually lazy layabouts

October 13, 2015

We’ve all been duped: Despite their name, worker ants are nothing but slackers. This is according to a new study published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, which has found that a significant proportion of ant colonies’ so-called “workers” spend most of their time “completely inactive”. Just three per cent of worker ants were [...]
Blockchain platform Setl hits one billion daily transactions – 1,000 times faster than Bitcoin’s blockchain

October 13, 2015

Blockchain platform Setl claims to be capable of processing one billion transactions per day – matching every electronic payment made globally. Scaling up to this extent makes blockchain an even more attractive rival to traditional financial systems, as the booming fintech sector is increasingly seen not just as a viable but a cheaper alternative. The company [...]
Britons in favour of nuclear power – as long as it’s nowhere near their homes

October 13, 2015

Most Britons support nuclear power, a new study has found – as long as it isn’t anywhere near their homes. A poll by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers found 56 per cent were in favour of the UK continuing to use nuclear power. Of those in favour, four out of five supported nuclear power because they believed it [...]
IEA oil prices: Demand for oil is falling lower than expected

October 13, 2015

Oil’s slump could be deeper than forecast, as oil demand is set to plunge further than previously expected. More bad news for oil producers: Until now, crashing oil prices have kept demand afloat. But that’ll come tumbling down too by next year, according to a new forecast from the International Energy Agency. The agency is [...]
SABMiller share price soars after reaching megabrew agreement in principle with AB InBev on takeover worth £44 a share

October 13, 2015

The megabrew deal is finally on: SABMiller and AB InBev have reached an agreement on a buyout deal that could create the world’s biggest brewing company by far. Investors flocked to SABMiller, making it the FTSE's biggest riser after news broke this morning that the world’s two biggest beer-makers had agreed in principle a takeover worth £44 [...]

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