Seven weeks ago I admitted that I got “the horn for the world of sack kraft paper and paper bags” and thought Mondi (MNDI) shares were cheap. It is good to see the shares up over 10% over the last month, including an over 4% increase today due to a sale in Russia.
I think we can all guess what the Bank of England will choose to do with interest rates later today. However, the real interest will come from what it says on updated future thoughts about inflation, economic growth and hence interest rate decisions over the next six to eighteen months. I know what I think already: the interest rate increases last month and this month will look overtly foolish in early 2024 (not that the Bank of England will ever admit it). As for the world of shares, there are lots of updates and insights to be dealt with today.
I will let other experts write about the company I call Royal Wail, Henry the Eighth called The Royal Mail and apparently today it is known as International Distributions Services plc (IDS), which today seems quite good at strikes and anticipating higher losses. Apparently, “excluding any charges for voluntary redundancy costs…this may increase to around a £450 million loss if customers move volume away for longer periods following the initial disruption". One for the experts to say the least… Meanwhile, I am more interested in today’s update from the multinational packaging and paper group Mondi (MNDI).
Shares in Mondi plc (MNDI) are down from reaching above 1950p in February to currently below 1500p. However, there looks good reasons why the shares in this FTSE 100 company should, at least, recover to those previous levels again. If not go higher still.
This has certainly been an interesting first four days of March for global investment markets. And - in a way - being a bit too busy with meetings and travel over Thursday and Friday to do anything much with investment market choices is no bad thing.







