Tuesday broker round-up
25th Sep 2018 12:57
(Sharecast News) - Wetherspoons: Peel Hunt downgrades to hold with a target price of 1,325p.
Read moreImperial Brands enjoys 'much stronger' tobacco pricing mix
25th Sep 2018 07:02
(Sharecast News) - Imperial Brands said its tobacco business was enjoying "much stronger" sales in the second half of the year and said it plans to launch its heat-not-burn tobacco product early in 2019.
Read moreSector movers: Tobacco and tech fizzle, miners and insurers rise
18th Sep 2018 14:09
(Sharecast News) - Tobacco and tech stocks led on the downside on Tuesday, while the mining and non-life insurance sectors were the big risers.
Read moreAnalysts see positives for tobacco in US e-cigs crackdown
13th Sep 2018 08:40
(Sharecast News) - US regulators' warning to electronic cigarette companies about combatting the rising use among youth held "positives" for big cigarette companies such as British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands, said analysts at UBS, Jefferies and Liberum on Thursday.
Read moreFDA threatens crackdown to tackle 'epidemic' of youth vaping
12th Sep 2018 15:39
(Sharecast News) - The American food and drug administration threatened to move against e-cigarettes as youth vaping levels reach "epidemic proportion" on Wednesday.
Read moreWednesday broker round-up
12th Sep 2018 13:42
(Sharecast News) - Goals Soccer Centres: Peel Hunt upgrades to buy with a target price of 100p.
Read moreSector movers: Tobacco companies feel the heat
11th Sep 2018 12:51
(Sharecast News) - Tobacco companies were both down around 3%, extending recent falls amid concerns around emerging markets.
Read moreLondon close: Trade jitters offset positive news on wage front
11th Sep 2018 08:42
(Sharecast News) - London stocks finished the Tuesday session slightly lower as UK jobs and wage data was overshadowed by news that China is set to ask the World Trade Organisation for permission to slap sanctions on the US.
Read moreTobacco companies' vaping fervour will dent profits, RBC warns
3rd Sep 2018 12:28
(Sharecast News) - Big tobacco companies' newfound enthusiasm for vaping threaten the groups' profits, said RBC Capital Markets, leading it to downgrade its rating on Imperial Brands and British American Tobacco.
Read moreUK equities look overbought, says Credit Suisse
6th Aug 2018 13:46
(Sharecast News) - Since April, UK equities have outperformed euro area stocks by around 3% and global stocks by around 1%, but with oil prices felt to have peaked and shares looking "overbought", Credit Suisse strategists have downgraded their stance.
Read moreLondon close: FTSE mixed as Unilever flies after rebuffed Kraft Heinz bid
17th Feb 2017 17:15
(ShareCast News) - London stocks closed mixed after a Friday session that saw blue-chip consumer goods giant Unilever fly higher after it slapped away a $143bn offer from Kraft Heinz, which has indicated it will return to the table. The rebuffed offer -- $50 a share in a mix of cash and shares -- wa
Read moreLondon close: FTSE falls on dollar dip, ex-divs and tendency to gold safety
16th Feb 2017 17:00
(ShareCast News) - London equities limped to a lower close Thursday, pulled down by a trinity of factors including dollar weakness, a tendency to safe-haven gold and ex-dividend stocks. These combined to see the FTSE 100 down 0.34% to 7,277.92, and the FTSE 250 down -0.65%% to 18,705.72. Both ladder
Read moreImperial Brands stubs out pay rise for CEO
26th Jan 2017 15:55
(ShareCast News) - Shareholders of cigarette giant Imperial Brands seem to have stopped a pay rise for the company's chief executive Alison Cooper, sending a message to other FTSE 100 companies looking to raise their bosses bonuses. On Thursday the owner of Gauloises and John Player unexpectedly sai
Read moreImperial Brands forms JV with China Tobacco
11th Jan 2017 14:04
(ShareCast News) - Imperial Brands teamed up with rival China Tobacco to develop a variety of growth opportunities in Asia's largest economy and overseas via a Hong Kong-based joint-venture to be named Global Horizon Ventures. Its focus would be on introducing Bristol-based Imperial's West and David
Read moreWednesday broker round-up
4th Jan 2017 14:30
(ShareCast News) - British American Tobacco: UBS reiterates hold with a target price of 5150p. Bovis: Jefferies reiterates hold, 886p target. Royal Dutch Shell: RBC upgrades to outperform with a 2500p target. Imperial Brands: Berenberg reiterates buy with a 4280p target. Barratt Developments: Deu
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