LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Sports Direct</strong> International, up 4.1%, and <strong>Marks and Spencer</str Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Tuesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Barclays</strong> PLC said it is now targeting a higher leverage ratio after reaching its 3.0% target six months ahead of schedule. In t Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC said it is now targeting a higher leverage ratio after reaching its 3.0% target six months ahead of schedule. In the bank's full-year earnings release Tuesday, Barclays said 2014 will be another year of transition as it continues to shrink its balance sheet, Read More
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(Correcting that Barclays recorded a fourth-quarter pretax profit, not loss.) LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC said it is now targeting a higher leverage ratio after reaching its 3.0% target six months ahead of schedule. In the bank's full-year earnings release Tuesday, Barclays said Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Tuesday ahead of the testimony later in the day by new US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. <br /><br /><strong>Barclays</strong> has said it is in a position to increase its leverage ratio target, despite a loss in its final quarter. Bar Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC said it is now targeting a higher leverage ratio after reaching its 3.0% target six months ahead of schedule. In the bank's full-year earnings release Tuesday, Barclays said 2014 will be another year of transition as it continues to shrink its balance sheet, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are expected to open higher Tuesday, continuing to make small gains in the absence of any top-tier economic data or other overall market drivers to change sentiment so far this week. That could be set to change with two central bank events ahead. The clear Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The new organisation set to be established by the end of the year in order to raise standards in banking would provide a "canopy" under which existing professional bodies would continue to develop and grow, with the goal of moving the industry towards the same sort of pro Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC shares are higher Monday despite the bank confirming that its 2013 pretax profit excluding provisions will drop by over GBP2 billion and as it launched a probe into allegations that details of tens of thousands of its account holders have been stolen and sold Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Barclays</strong> shares are higher Monday despite the bank confirming that its 2013 pretax profit excluding provisions will drop by over GBP2 billion and as it launched a probe into allegations that details of tens of thousands of its account holders have been Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Barclays, up 1.9%. The bank is amongst the leading blue-chip gainers despite saying that it will report a GBP5.2 billion adju Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC Monday said it will report a GBP5.2 billion adjusted pretax profit for 2013, meaning it will miss consensus estimates by about GBP200 million. Barclays shares were Monday quoted at 275.27 pence, up 3.57 pence, or 1.3%, despite the miss. On Friday, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Stock indices in the UK and Europe are modestly higher Monday, continuing the positivity from Friday's rally, with few data drivers in the calendar to change sentiment. By mid-morning Monday the FTSE 100 is up 0.2% at 6,581.85, the FTSE 250 is up 0.3% at 15,906.10, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC Monday said it will report a GBP5.2 billion adjusted pretax profit for 2013, meaning it will miss consensus estimates by about GBP200 million. On Friday, Barclays had said analysts were forecasting a GBP5.41 billion in adjusted pretax profit. Barc Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to extend their gains Monday, continuing the global equities rally seen at the back-end of last week, as investors continue to digest the much softer-than-expected US jobs data released on Friday. The US Labor department's non-farm payrolls data re Read More
London (Alliance News) - Barclays launched an investigation in response to a media report saying thousands of confidential files belonging to the bank's customers had been stolen and sold, a spokeswoman said Sunday. A report in the British tabloid Mail on Sunday said up to 27,000 files cont Read More