FTSE 100 movers: Sports Direct in top spot as banks head lower
11th Mar 2014 14:48
Sports Direct was the day's top riser, gaining strongly after shareholders approved a huge 65m pound bonus plan for founder Mike Ashley. The payout is dependent on the company achieving earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of £330m in 2014 and £410m in 2015 - the l
Read moreLondon midday: Stocks near four-week low, supermarkets fall
11th Mar 2014 11:37
- Markets at lowest in nearly four weeks - Russia said to be drawing up counter offer to US - Supermarkets fall after Kantar data techMARK 2,841.55 -0.13% FTSE 100 6,674.07 -0.23% FTSE 250 16,448.94 -0.01% After a quiet start, UK stocks fell into the red by Tuesday lunchtime with retailers and ba
Read moreSunday newspaper round-up: WM Morrison, BP, Barclays
9th Mar 2014 10:14
WM Morrison is preparing to announce aggressive price cuts and 500m pounds of property sales this week, the Sunday Times reported. The price cuts aim to take on Aldi and Lidl, the German chains whose prices have lured MM Morrison customers. The £500m of property sales out of a total portfolio of £10
Read moreFriday newspaper round-up: Forex, Crimea, Barclays
7th Mar 2014 06:58
Robert de Groot, the head of foreign exchange trading at BNP Paribas, was suspended on Thursday. De Groot joined the Bank of England´s chief dealers´ group - a panel on which senior forex traders and Bank officials sit - in 2007. Said committee was thrust into the spotlight this week after Bank re
Read moreBasel III shows large banks have cut capital shortfall in half
6th Mar 2014 12:41
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) published the results of its Basel III monitoring exercise on Thursday and revealed that the capital shortfalls of the large, internationally active banks has shrunk by 50 per cent. The BIS analysed a total of 227 banks and divided them into two groups: G
Read moreThursday newspaper round-up: Ukraine, Co-op, Rolls Royce
6th Mar 2014 07:13
Attempts to broker direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine´s foreign ministers made little headway in Paris on Wednesday, although the US Secretary of State and Russia´s Minister of Foreign Affairs are due to meet again on Thursday, in Rome. In parallel, the European Union announced that it w
Read moreFTSE 100 movers: Sports Direct jumps after strong update
19th Feb 2014 14:02
Sports Direct International shot to the top of the risers after group sales in the quarter to January 26th rose 11.2 per cent from the previous year to 655.4m pounds. Gross profit gained 14.6 per cent to 280.7m pounds during the period with growth across all its divisions including Sports Retail, Br
Read moreLondon midday: Stocks slip after surprise increase in jobless rate
19th Feb 2014 11:41
- UK jobless rate rises to 7.2 per cent, above estimates - MPC votes unanimously to leave policy unchanged - Ex-div stocks provide a drag on FTSE - Sports Direct jumps after Q3 update techMARK 2,855.22 -0.93% FTSE 100 6,761.33 -0.52% FTSE 250 16,233.58 -0.66% UK markets pulled back from a four-w
Read moreLondon open: Stocks pause at four-week high ahead of data, BoE minutes
19th Feb 2014 08:16
- Markets at highest since January 22nd - UK labour-market data due out, BoE minutes - Sports Direct, M&S, BAE Systems lead the upside - Ex-div stocks weigh techMARK 2,878.02 -0.14% FTSE 100 6,798.45 +0.03% FTSE 250 16,340.79 -0.01% UK stocks opened more or less flat on Wednesday morning after th
Read moreLondon close: FTSE ends on a high after data-heavy session
18th Feb 2014 16:21
- FTSE reverses early declines to finish up 60 points - Banks lifted by UK inflation data - Anglo American lifted by UBS note techMARK 2,881.97 +0.86% FTSE 100 6,796.43 +0.90% FTSE 250 16,342.07 +0.60% Stocks reversed this morning's slight decline to end the session firmly higher, buoyed by a stro
Read moreFTSE 100 movers: Banks driven higher by inflation data
18th Feb 2014 15:08
Banks charged higher on the news that UK inflation fell below the government's target of 2.0 per cent in January for the first time since 2009. Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays registered the strongest gains within their sector. BT shares were given a lift after the UK's Court of Appeal ruled t
Read moreCandy Crush Saga maker King seeks 500m dollars in IPO - UPDATE
18th Feb 2014 12:34
King Digital Entertainment, maker of the massively successful Candy Crush Saga game, said it plans to raise 500m dollars through an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $500m. Chief Executive Officer Riccardo Zaccon
Read moreTuesday broker round-up UPDATE
18th Feb 2014 07:46
Aeorema Communications: Cantor Fitzgerald initiates with a target price of 90p and a buy recommendation. Aquarius Platinum: Investec shifts target price from 36p to 41p upgrading from sell to hold. Barclays: Jefferies shaves target price from 364p to 360p and keeps a buy recommendation. Brammer:
Read moreFormer Barclays employees charged over Libor scandal
17th Feb 2014 12:35
Three former employees of Barclays Bank have been charged by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in connection with its investigation into the manipulation of Libor, the inter-bank lending rate. The SFO said in a statement that Peter Charles Johnson, Jonathan James Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas, had
Read moreMonday newspaper round-up: Italy, Essar Energy, Barclays
17th Feb 2014 07:14
Matteo Renzi will on Monday be formally handed the job of forming Italy's fourth government in less than two years with the aim of presenting his reform programme to parliament by the end of the week. The 39-year-old leader of the centre-left Democrats, who ousted prime minister Enrico Letta in a pa
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