智通财经APP获悉，巴克莱发布研报，给予苹果(AAPL.US)“减持”评级，目标价160美元。 分析师Tim Long表示，苹果在最近一个季度的应用商店销售可能强劲，但这家科技巨头今年将在几个方面面临更加困难的环境。 Long表示，去年12月App Store同比增长10%，这一数字与去年9月至11月的增长“基本一致”。然而，他们也认为App Store的增长已经趋于平稳。 分析师写道:“我们认为，随着竞争在未来几个季度变得更加困难，App Store的增长速度可能会放缓至(中个位数)，而不是目前(个位数至10%)的增长速度。” 苹果的硬件收入被认为与预期大致相符，但下一季度的收入可能会比预期“弱得多”，原因包括供应链反馈、疲软的宏观环境、安卓销售反弹，以及围绕谷歌反垄断案的持续问题。 该行表示，“总的来说，我们的调查仍然表明，iPhone的销量持续疲软，中国的iPhone销量疲软(过去两周大幅下降[两位数])，美国和欧元的宏观经济疲软，只有新兴市场的强劲势头不足以抵消。美国司法部对谷歌的审判也存在风险，可能会影响苹果近10%的每股收益。” ...

Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC) and Banco Santander (LSE:BNC) are the latest major lenders to slash mortgage rates.  Today, Barclays is expected to cut rates by up to 0.5 percentage points on products targeting homebuyers, including new two-year fixed-rate deals.  Barclays’ cheapest two-year fixed rate, which is only available to buyers with a deposit of at least 40%, will be cut from 4.62% to 4.17%.  It is also dropping its two-year fixed rate to 4.2% for buyers with a 25% deposit, while customers with a small dep ...

Two of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders have cut their mortgage rates following similar moves by rivals. Barclays and Santander have both cut rates by about half of a percentage point on various products notably on two-year fixed mortgages. A two-year fixed with 60% loan to value at Barclays is down from 4.62% to 4.17% while for new customers Santander is cutting rates by up to 0.56% for new customers.  The Spanish bank is offering a 60% LTV five-year fixed rate mortgage will be available at 3.94% while re ...

GSK PLC (LSE:GSK, NYSE:GSK) should deliver better than expected fourth-quarter results on January 31, according to Barclays, amid heightened expectations driven by the robust performance of its RSV vaccine, Arexvy. Analysts at the bank, who also wondered if 2024 could be "the year Zantac goes away?", said the last set of quarterly results were muddied by the performance of Arexvy. "Though Arexvy's result at 3Q created a lot of confusion, with the inventory stocking benefit and launch costs [were] somewhat u ...

Key PointsGoldman Sachs stock is only getting started on its new bull run, or at least historical evidence points to it being the case.Analysts are spreading their expectations significantly apart from this bank against other competitors. The Federal Reserve (Fed) will pull the interest lever and unleash an EPS expansion in this name shortly.5 stocks we like better than Financial Select Sector SPDR FundMarkets shift in every cycle, and timing shifts are nearly impossible. Most investors learned this the har ...

Barclays PLC (LSE:BARC) cut 5,000 jobs over the course of last year in a bid to reduce costs and as “technology and automation” improves. Marking the most substantial cuts at the bank since the 2008 financial crisis, reductions are said to have taken the form of both redundancies and vacancies, as per Sky News. Reductions were made across Barclays’ 84,000-strong global workforce, with about a quarter thought to have hit the bank’s UK operations. Barclays confirmed the cuts in a statement, explaining they we ...

Barclays reportedly laid off about 5,000 workers in 2023 as part of a cost-cutting campaign.A spokesperson for the British bank told Reuters Monday (Jan. 8) that most of those cuts happened in Barclays Execution Services, the company’s support unit.“Barclays removed approximately 5,000 headcount globally through 2023 as part of its ongoing efficiency programme designed to simplify and reshape the business, improve service, and deliver higher returns,” the spokesperson said.The bank also laid off about 3% of ...

Barclays slashed its workforce by around 5,000 jobs in 2023 as part of a major cost-cutting drive announced last year, the bank said Monday.The majority of the cuts fell in Barclays Execution Services, the bank’s support unit, the lender said, confirming for the first time Reuters reporting from last November that the lender was eyeing thousands of cuts in that division.“Barclays removed approximately 5,000 headcount globally through 2023 as part of its ongoing efficiency program designed to simplify and re ...

The Barclays Bank logo on 5th of October 2023 in Ashford, United Kingdom. Barclays Bank is a British ... [+] multinational banking and financial services organisation and major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)In Pictures via Getty ImagesBarclays’ stock (NYSE: BCS) has gained 1% YTD, as compared to the 2% drop in the S&P500 over the same period. Further, it is currently trading at $8 per share, which is 9% below its fair value of jus ...

In the tumultuous world of finance, it’s crucial to identify bank stocks to avoid. The March banking crisis, marked by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the struggles of smaller lenders, has significantly eroded investor confidence. This development is particularly concerning as the banking sector hasn’t reaped the expected benefits of rising interest rates, placing these stocks in a precarious position.Furthermore, Goldman Sachs reports a notable shift among hedge funds from holding to short-selling ban ...