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HSBC To Eliminate As Many As 300 UK Commercial Banking Jobs

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HSBC will be restructuring its commercial banking business in Britain which will result in 300 job cuts, according to Reuters. The cuts come as part of Europe's largest bank's larger restructuring effort from earlier this year, with HSBC looking to cut costs worldwide as the ability to boost revenues becomes more difficult.

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Today In Data: Smartphones As IDs, RBS Profits And Accounts Payable Payments

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Here are the numbers: 1.8 billion | Number of adults in the world who do not have bank accounts and may not have government-issued IDs but do have mobile phones. billion | Profits posted by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in 2017, despite the ongoing fallout from its Global Restructuring Group scandal. billion loss.

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Closed Theme Parks Sink Disney Earnings; Q3 Could Be Worse

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The company reported the second-quarter profit of its fiscal year at $460 million, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $18.01 After adjusting for restructuring charges and other effects, Disney reported earnings of 60 cents a share, down from $1.61 billion, up from $14.9 billion in 2019. a share a year ago. a share a year ago.

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Is Rolex a Non-Profit? The Federal Reserve chair spent the early pandemic bemoaning the loss of a strong job market. The $10 billion event-driven is a deep value-focused investor specializing in companies that need financial and operational restructuring. Can He Keep It?

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What is EBITDA?

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It is often used as a proxy for cash flow and is a measure of operating profit. Analysts and investors often use EBITDA or EBITDA margins to quickly understand the company’s profitability trends and compare it to its peers within the same industry. Common examples are stock compensation expenses or restructuring charges.

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Walmart Shares Up Across The Board On Big Earnings Beats

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The planet’s largest retailer by sales crushed their way through Q2, with bigger than expected gains in revenue, earnings, same-store sales and eCommerce sales than analysts were predicting before the numbers hit the wires. The headline number was the highly watched same-store sales figure. All-in revenue jumped up 3.8

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The Long Climb Back From Ghana’s Banking Crisis

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billion) for an effort that has seen the number of lenders in the nation reduced by a third to 23, savings and loans companies reduced to 25 from 40, finance houses trimmed to 11 from 19, and micro-finance and micro-credit lenders reduced by roughly 70 percent to 168, from 554. So far the government has paid at least 12 billion cedis ($2.2

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