LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Friday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br />The<strong> Royal Bank of Scotland</strong> Group PLC warned of commercial risk after it said UK Financial Investments, the entity responsible fo Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Friday on heightened concerns about the standoff in Ukraine.<br /><br /><strong>William Hill</strong> said it will close 109 gaming shops in response to the UK government's hike to machine gaming duty, putting 420 employees at risk. William Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC Friday warned of commercial risk after it said UK Financial Investments, the entity responsible for the government's stake in the bailed-out bank, has said it will block any proposal allowing the lender to pay bonuses up to 200% of fix Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The Federal Housing Finance Agency or FHFA, as conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Thursday announced a settlement with Barclays Bank PLC, related companies and some individuals for USD280 million. The settlement resolves claims, in two lawsuits, alleging vio Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC's strategic cost management programme has partially offset challenging first-quarter for the investment bank's fixed income, credit, and commodities (FICC) business, and is expected to result in only a small reduction in adjusted pretax profit for the group, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC's strategic cost management programme has partially offset challenging first-quarter for the investment bank's fixed income, credit, and commodities (FICC) business, and is expected to result in only a small reduction in adjusted pretax profit for the group, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>AstraZeneca</strong> shares jumped Thursday after the pharmaceutical giant maintained its full-year guidance for 2014, even as its pretax profit dropped in the first quarter to end-March, hit by write-downs on the sale of its Alderley Park site and its acquisit Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC's strategic cost management programme has partially offset challenging first-quarter for the investment bank's fixed income, credit, and commodities (FICC) business, and is expected to result in only a small reduction in adjusted pretax profit for the group, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Thursday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>AstraZeneca</strong> PLC maintained its full-year guidance for 2014, as it saw pretax profit drop in the first quarter to end-March, hi Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Barclays PLC's strategic cost management programme has partially offset challenging first-quarter for the investment bank's fixed income, credit, and commodities (FICC) business, and is expected to result in only a small reduction in adjusted pretax profit for the group, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Thursday following strong results reported by US technology bellwethers Apple and Facebook overnight.<br /><br />A number of major UK companies also reported early Thursday, but with a less positive tone. <br /><br /><strong>Unilever </stro Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Associated British Foods</strong> said Wednesday profit for the first half of the year increased, driven primarily by sales at its low-cost fashion retail chain Primark, which more than offset a substantial hit to its sugar business.<br /><br />The food, ingred Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />CREDIT SUISSE RAISES WOLSELEY TO 'OUTPERFORM' ('NEUTRAL') - TARGET 4000 (3400) PENCE <br />----------<br />TRADERS: CREDIT SU Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - British lender Barclays PLC may have to eliminate 7,500 jobs at its investment bank to improve returns at its securities unit, Bloomberg said quoting a report by Sanford C. Bernstein. The European fixed-income, currencies and commodities business, or FICC, may be th Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Pharmaceutical stocks are reigning over the first session following the long Easter bank holiday, with mergers and acquisitions leading investor interest.<br /><br /><strong>GlaxoSmithKline</strong> has signed a three-part inter-conditional transaction with Swiss healt Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>AstraZeneca</strong>, up 7.1%. The pharmaceutical company has jumped after The Sunday Read More