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27.01.26 - 21:27
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US Metro Bancorp Announces Fourth Quarter 2025 Results (Business Wire)
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--US Metro Bancorp (OTCQX: USMT): US Metro Bancorp (“Bancorp”) is a bank holding company, with a single subsidiary, US Metro Bank (“Bank”). On a consolidated basis, Bancorp earned $2.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared to $2.9 million in the third quarter of 2025. For the twelve months ending December 31, 2025, the consolidated Bancorp earned $10.2 million compared to $7.1 million for the twelve months ending December 31, 2024. On a year-to-date basis, Bancorp recorded an annualized return on average assets (“ROAA”) of 0.68% and an annualized return on average equity (“ROAE”) of 9.49%. With 16,621,000 shares outstanding, earnings per share (“EPS”) for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $0.14 compared to $0.18 in the third quarter of 2025. For the twelve months ending December 31, 2025, EPS was $0.62 compared to $0.43 for the twelve months ending December 31, 2024. On December 31, 2025, Bancorp's book value per share was $6.73 compared to ...
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27.01.26 - 21:21
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Diageo Buy (DPA-AFX)
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NEW YORK (dpa-AFX Analyser) - Das Analysehaus Jefferies hat die Einstufung für Diageo nach Zahlen von LVMH auf "Buy" mit einem Kursziel von 2000 Pence belassen. Der Umsatzrückgang der Spirituosensparte sei deutlicher gewesen als erwartet, schrieb Edward ......
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27.01.26 - 20:42
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Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump (The Guardian)
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Critics say government concealing true cost of deal 'despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year'Ministers are under growing pressure to end the “secrecy” around the UK's deal with the US over the cost of medicines, which critics claim is “a Trump shakedown of the NHS”.MPs from Labour and several opposition parties want the government to publish its impact assessment of the agreement it reached last month with Donald Trump's administration. Continue reading......
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27.01.26 - 20:30
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The Guardian view on deepening poverty in the UK: a catastrophic Tory legacy has cut millions adrift | Editorial (The Guardian)
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A new Joseph Rowntree report underlines the corrosive impact of years of anti-welfare rhetoric. A reframing of the debate is urgently neededThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest report on poverty in the UK, published this week, should be read first and foremost as an indictment of all Conservative governments between 2010 and 2024. During almost a decade and a half of Tory rule, the JRF estimates that no progress at all was made in reducing overall levels of relative hardship. No surprise perhaps. Through wide-ranging, ideologically driven welfare cuts, ministers actively sought to make life harder, not easier, for many of the least well-off.The grim legacy of that approach is that in 2023-24 – the last dataset available – about one in five people were in relative poverty, defined as less than 60% of median income. But it also turns out that 6.8 million people were struggling to survive on far, far less than that, having effectively been economically cut adrift. Some 3.8 million people experie...
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