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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Bellway share price soars as housebuilder’s profit beats expectations on record house sales

October 13, 2015

The figures Bellway shares rose 3.5 per cent in mid-morning trading as the UK housebuilder smashed expectations, reporting pre-tax profits soaring by 44 per cent year-on-year to hit £354.2m in the year to 31 July, comfortably ahead of analysts’ expectations of £343m. The housebuilder, one of the UK's largest, sold 7,752 homes, up 13.2 per cent, [...]
Asian markets rattled by mixed Chinese trade data as exports hold up but imports tumble further than expected

October 13, 2015

Asian markets were shaken by mixed signals from fresh China trade data that rekindled worries about a slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy. The figures for September showed that, despite hitting a record-high trade surplus with exports holding up far better than expected, imports tumbled further than predicted. Economic data has been weak over the summer and [...]
Sex matters: Investors avoid funds managed by women as female-led funds attract 10 per cent less cash

October 12, 2015

Women remain a rarity among mutual fund managers, and gender bias may be one cause for this. A new study has found that female fund managers get around 10 per cent less fund flows than their male peers from investors preferring to invest in male-managed funds. Less than one in 10 fund managers in the [...]
How advertisers and publishers can address the challenges of mobile ad blocking

October 12, 2015

It is wise to assume that ad blocking will be with us in the long-term, however, mobile advertising will most certainly live on. The rise of ad blocking on smartphones and tablets gives advertisers and publishers a prime opportunity to reassess their approach to targeting consumers and to optimise the content that they provide. Also [...]
Dell to buy EMC Corporation in $67bn merger – the biggest tech deal in history

October 12, 2015

The rumours were right: Dell had got something really big up its sleeve. The giant just unveiled the biggest tech deal in history, after agreeing to a $67bn acquisition of data storage maker EMC. The offer EMC has agreed to is worth $33.15 a share, of which $24.05 in cash plus tracking stock in EMC's holding [...]
Self-balancing “hoverboard” scooters are illegal on UK roads and pavements

October 12, 2015

Bad news for all you Marty McFly wannabes out there: the Crown Prosecution Service has ruled that those “hoverboards” – or balancing scooters – are illegal on the UK's roads and pavements. Even if you don’t own one yourself, you’re sure to have seen them, as the self-balancing scooters similar to Segways have begun flooding [...]
Glencore share price dips as miner confirms asset sales in Chile and Australia to shrink debt pile and weather commodities rout

October 12, 2015

Embattled mining and trading giant Glencore is selling off assets in Australia and Chile, in a move to diminish its mountain of debt. The company confirmed it will sell its wholly-owned Cobar copper mine in Australia and Lomas Bayas copper mine in Chile, after it flagged early this morning it will announce proposed sales of assets in the regions. The company [...]
The share price of London-listed Internet of Things company Telit has risen 500 per cent since 2012

October 12, 2015

If you needed more proof that the Internet of Things is a booming trend among investors, this is it. Telit communications, a stock listed on London’s junior market, has soared 500 per cent since 2012, Bloomberg reports, as investors are flocked to cash in on the growing sector. The company’s shares are up 37 per cent this [...]
What makes a Nobel prize winner? How many Nobel laureates are women, how old was the youngest winner – and how many Americans?

October 12, 2015

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences will be announced at midday today, rounding up this year’s Nobel Prize announcements after last week’s flurry of winners including the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which took home the controversial Peace Prize and Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the Literature Prize. To mark the event, we’ve [...]
London house prices: Why fried chicken is a useful guide to where to invest in property

October 12, 2015

The Coffee: Fried Chicken Shop Index started quite literally as a joke, forming part of a stand-up comedy routine I did. But the results highlight a wider aspect of the London property market, and one which many may have subconsciously considered when walking the streets of the city. When looking to invest in a particular property and, [...]

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