LONDON (Alliance News) - UK food wholesaler Booker Group PLC Thursday reported a significant increase in its pretax profit for its recent financial year, boosted by its acquisition of Makro last year, which drove a 17% increase in revenue. The company raised its total dividend for the year Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>SABMiller</strong>, up 3.3%. The brewing giant reported a higher pretax profit for it Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher across the board Thursday, after latest indications from US Federal Reserve policy makers left little concern about an imminent rate increase.<br /><br />A flurry of IPO plans were confirmed early Thursday, led by property site<strong> Zoop Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's main stock indexes all closed higher Wednesday, tracking gains in the US ahead of the minutes from the US Federal Reserve's last policy meeting, while the pound reached a multi-day high against other major currencies after the Bank of England released the minu Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Europe's largest home improvement retailer <strong>Kingfisher</strong> saw its shares rise Thursday after saying it is in exclusive negotiations to acquire French home improvement retail chain Mr Bricolage for an overall enterprise vale of around EUR275 million.<br />< Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK food wholesaler Booker Group PLC Thursday said it finished the financial year just ended on a strong footing, boosted by its acquisition of Makro last year, with profits for the year in line with expectations, and a balance sheet carrying GBP150 million of net cash.</p Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open slightly higher Thursday, ahead of another busy day of economic data, with the European Central Bank in firm focus as the markets increasingly anticipate a policy shift to stem the rising euro and falling inflation. China announced slew of Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Stocks in the UK and Europe have closed modestly higher Wednesday, while those in the US also trade just slightly higher, despite an improving trend of US economic data, as markets appear to enter wait-and-see mode ahead of the European Central Bank meeting on Thursday Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Booker Group PLC Monday said Max Easton, the son of non-executive Director Karen Jones bought 792 shares at a price of 1.67386 pence per share Thursday. Following this transaction, Jones now holds 122,500 shares. Shares in the food wholesaler were down 0.10p a Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning and Wednesday afternoon:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS RAISES SHIRE PRICE TARGET TO 3450 (3180) PENCE - 'NEUTRAL'<br />----------<br />UBS RAISES ASTRAZE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning and Tuesday afternoon:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />S&P CAPITAL IQ CUTS BARCLAYS PRICE TARGET TO 310 (320) PENCE - 'BUY'<br />----------<br />UBS CUTS Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />JEFFERIES STARTS STANDARD CHARTERED WITH 'UNDERPERFORM' - PRICE TARGET 1100 PENCE <br />----------<br />UBS CUTS PEARSON PRICE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - A raft of strong trading updates from retailers including Primark, Dixons, Home Retail, and Halfords effectively brought the Christmas retail reporting season to a close Thursday, and confirmed that the period had been positive overall despite weak trading for some of Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Rio Tinto</strong>, up 3.8%. The mining company has reported that it has increas Read More