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September 2026

Markets & Macro4 min

$110 oil is a pricing power test for European airlines

Fuel hedges can postpone the effect of the latest oil shock, but they cannot remove it. The eventual pressure on margins will reveal whether European airlines can raise unit revenue without sacrificing demand.

Company Analysis4 min

Belron has turned windscreen replacement into an infrastructure business

Belron’s value rests on insurer access, network density and the technical demands of ADAS recalibration rather than on glass alone. A possible Amsterdam listing would give Europe a rare large scale service asset, but leverage and disclosure quality will shape the valuation.

Markets & Macro4 min

Europe is cheaper than America, but no longer cheap

Europe still trades below the United States, but sector mix, weaker growth and lower reinvestment returns explain much of the gap. The rerating has removed the case for treating the region as uniformly cheap.

Markets & Macro3 min

France's factory surveys are running ahead of output

French manufacturers are reporting better conditions even as production has fallen for two consecutive months. The gap may be signalling a coming rebound, but the hard data remain materially weaker than the survey.

Markets & Macro4 min

London’s stock market problem is bigger than the IPO drought

Delistings, takeovers and the retreat of domestic institutional capital are narrowing London’s quoted market. The result is a weaker valuation and financing ecosystem, even though trading in its largest shares remains functional.

Markets & Macro5 min

Who decides when a European bank changes hands

The European Central Bank has cleared the absorption of Mediobanca into Monte dei Paschi. The contested question in European banking this autumn is not whether transactions clear supervision, but where the right to decide them actually sits.

Markets & Macro4 min

Somebody Always Pays

European long bonds are repricing fast, back at levels last seen in 2011. The move looks financial, but the bill lands on households, companies and governments at different speeds.

August 2026

Markets & Macro2 min

Why European equities trade at a persistent discount

The gap against US indices is usually explained by sector mix alone. Decomposing it by sector, margin profile and growth suggests the mix argument only covers part of the story.

Company Analysis2 min

Pricing power in European luxury: a working framework

Brand strength is quoted often and measured rarely. A practical way to test whether pricing power is real: volume behaviour through a downturn, gross margin stability, and the cost of keeping the brand desirable.

July 2026

Markets & Macro2 min

Energy costs and the shape of European industrial margins

Input costs pass through to margins at very different speeds depending on contract structure and hedging policy. The disclosure needed to tell the difference is usually there, just not summarised.

June 2026

Company Analysis3 min

Reinvestment runway: reading segment disclosure properly

Group-level returns average away the thing that matters. Segment capital employed, where it is disclosed, shows whether incremental capital is going into the business that earns or the one that dilutes.

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