18 June 2026

As expected the Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged at 3.75% at its meeting today.  The FTSE 100 is down over 100 points at lunchtime.  Look out later for the June issue of cityconfidential published this afternoon

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Ocado – 219p

29 May 2026 - new agreement Ocado has announced a partnership with Asda which will see it develop the latter's online business across the UK utilising the Ocado Smart Platform.  Asda has a substantial online business fulfilling over 700,000 ecommerce orders weekly and the existing ecommerce infrastructure will be replaced...

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Further growth seen at Bison.

17 June 2026 - 96p The marketing group has issued a positive trading update for the first half of the year with revenues up by...

Ride ahead with Tandem!

17 June 2026 - 175.5p The company has issued a reassuring trading update ahead of its AGM with group revenues to 31 May up 2%...

Disappointing i-Mpac-t at the packaging group

9 June 2026 - Mpac Group - 210p The packaging and automated solutions group Mpac has issued a disappointing trading update, revealing that the uncertainty...

Is Premier vulnerable?

9 June 2026 - Premier Miton  - 38p We commented on the disappointing results of Premier Miton last week although we continued to rate the...

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Times for Smiths News

18 June 2026 - new distribution agreement Smiths News (69.7p) has announced that it has secured a long-term contract with News UK, the owner of the...

Speedy by name as well

Speedy Hire - 20.3p The UK's leading tools and equipment hire group has announced its annual results to 31 March which have demonstrated the difficult...

Middle East affecting McBride

12 June 2026 - 150.25p trading update We last commented on the private label and contract manufacturing group McBride in April when the company announced the...

A good bet for the World Cup?

10 June 2026 - Entain - 590p With the football World Cup set to kick off tomorrow night, it is worth looking at those companies...

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