It’s a stock picker’s market: The Consumer sector may be out of fashion at present, but the evidence suggests that individual companies can beat the trend and those that do not are being increasingly scrutinised for recovery as well as take-over potential. The post-Christmas trading update season has been better than the market expected, with the ratio of the upgrades to downgrades running at 16:7 for Consumer trading updates to end-Thursday 5 February, with 67% of the announcements guiding to n ....
