BREWED BEHAVIOUR
Lifestyle, Fitness, Health, and more.
The Mood Moved First
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London ran a randomised controlled trial called NeuroFit and published it this week in npj Aging. Fifty-two healthy participants aged 45 to 65. Twenty-seven did a combination of aerobic and resistance training three times a week for three months. Twenty-five carried on with their usual daily activities. The primary outcome was pattern separation, a...
The Good News Was Already in the Price
Next shares fell about three percent to 14,475p on Friday, the day after the retailer reported first-half full-price sales up 7.7 percent, pre-tax profit up 10.5 percent to £569 million, and lifted full-year guidance by £12 million to £1.255 billion, implying 8.4 percent growth on last year. It was the fourth upgrade since January. Both UBS, a buyer with a 16,800p target, and Panmure Liberum, a buyer at 16,000p, kept their ratings and raised...
Nobody Cancelled, They Just Stopped Calling
Bilfinger cut its 2026 guidance on Wednesday evening and the shares fell more than 24 percent on Thursday morning, closing 21 percent down at €59.70 after touching a 52-week low of €56.45 and intraday losses above 25 percent. The German industrial services group is down around 45 percent on the year. Revenue guidance went to €5.3 to €5.7 billion from €5.4 to €5.9 billion, a modest trim. The margin guidance did the damage: EBITA of 3.2 to 3.6...
Fifty Percent and No Further Talks
The United States imposed 50 percent tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods in the early hours of 22 August, after three days of talks in Washington failed hours before the deadline. The list runs from wine, furniture, dairy and cement to clothing, fishing rods and hockey equipment, covering roughly five percent of what Canada ships south each year. Canada matched it. Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs dollar for dollar from 8...
Thirty-Nine Times the Revenue
Harvey raised $550 million on 9 September at a valuation of $15.5 billion, in a round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Diffusion, a new firm founded by longtime Harvey backer Kris Fredrickson. Sapphire Ventures and Whale Rock joined as new investors alongside returning names including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, GIC and Elad Gil. Total raised since the 2022 founding passes $1.55 billion. Six...