Outlook

2022 - 4 - 25

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Mixed outlook across industries as insolvencies double (Punchline Gloucester)

The latest Small Business index (SBI) from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) paints a mixed picture across industries as insolvencies are double the ...

A fifth (20 per cent) of small business owners are planning to increase headcounts in the coming months. Increasing numbers (10 per cent) are exporting to new markets outside the EU. The majority (55 per cent) of small business owners say they are operating below capacity. One in eight (13 per cent) small exporters have temporarily or permanently stopped sales to the EU, and a further 9 per cent are considering doing so. A record-high 87% of small business owners state that operating costs are up compared to this time last year. Retail sales dropped by 1.4 per cent in March, according to an update from the ONS released on Friday.

Fitch Revises Saudi Aramco's Outlook to Positive; Affirms IDR at 'A' (Fitch Ratings)

Fitch Ratings-London-25 April 2022: Fitch Ratings has revised Saudi Arabian Oil Company's (Saudi Aramco) Outlook to Positive from Stable following a simila.

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Cineworld CCO Renana Teperberg Talks Theatrical Outlook ... (Deadline)

CinemaCon honoree Renana Teperberg, CCO of Cineworld, offers industry insight before receiving the Global Achievement in Exhibition Award.

I can enjoy almost every movie when it comes with the right experience and the right person next to me. I was 100% sure I was going to be a psychologist and I looked for a job that would be on the weekends because I was studying during the week. I was in the projection room, I managed the cinema, all while I was still studying and still sure that I would be a psychologist. TEPERBERG: First because this industry, you know, it does it to you — it’s so exciting and different and you feel that you are part of this thing that entertains people, something good that people love. I think it’s clear that when someone is watching a movie in the cinema, they will go out and say “Wow!”, and watching the same movie at home, they go out and say, “Eh, it was nice.” For a filmmaker, if it’s their life’s project, I think that they all at the end want to be shown on the big screen. I think we already proved that if people want to go out — we saw with Spider-Man, Bond, Uncharted, The Batman — people want to go out.

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Oil's hired hands see outlook brighten as war fractures markets (WorldOil)

Halliburton, which controls more fracing capacity than any other company, predicted North American explorers will boost spending by 35% this year, ...

“The emerging cycle is likely to last longer and be characterized by a much slower and more modest rise in active frack,” Liberty CEO Chris Wright said. A wave of bankruptcies in subsequent years helped chew through that oversupply of gear, positioning contractors like Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. to capitalize going forward. “We expect global oil and gas supply to remain constrained in the coming years which should support higher commodity prices and multiple years of spending growth from our customers,” Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said earlier this week during a call with analysts and investors.

Fitch Revises SABIC's Outlook to Positive; Affirms IDRs at 'A' (Fitch Ratings)

Fitch Ratings-Warsaw-25 April 2022: Fitch Ratings has revised Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)'s Outlook to Positive from Stable, and affirmed th.

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Fitch revises Saudi Aramco's outlook to 'positive' (Reuters)

Ratings agency Fitch on Monday revised its outlook for state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co to "positive" from "stable", citing a similar action on the country.

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Fitch revises eight Saudi banks' outlook to positive (Arab News)

RIYADH: Fitch Ratings has revised eight Saudi Arabian banks' outlooks to positive from stable while affirming the banks' long-term issuer default rating, ...

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Forvia drives cautiously into 2022 as China, Ukraine cloud auto ... (Reuters)

Forvia, the European car parts maker created by Faurecia's takeover of German rival Hella , is cautious about the outlook for 2022, based on lower global ...

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