(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 posted modest gains on Friday, while the oil price fell, amid guarded optimism about a Middle East peace deal. Read More
(Alliance News) - Campaigners have cheered the UK chancellor's move to take aim at oil and gas profits with plans to close a tax loophole on overseas activities and raise hundreds of millions of pounds. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks in Europe opened higher on Friday on US-Iran deal hope, taking some steam out of oil prices, while UK retail sales data underwhelmed. Read More
(Alliance News) - British energy giant BP PLC is facing a lawsuit over allegations that improper toxic waste disposal in two remote villages in northeastern Kenya killed thousands of livestock and caused cancer among hundreds of locals. Read More
(Alliance News) - BP PLC on Wednesday said it has signed three production sharing contracts in Indonesia, increasing its participation in oil and gas blocks in the country to 11. Read More
BP PLC - London-based oil major - Deputy Chief Executive Carol Howle sells 350,000 shares at GBP5.59, worth GBP2.0 million, on Monday in London. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in Europe opened largely lower on Monday, as a surge in the oil price on conflict worry intensified inflation fear. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 slumped on Friday as talks between the US and China failed to deliver hoped for progress on the Middle East adding to jitters caused by domestic political uncertainty. Read More
(Alliance News) - Babcock reports higher annual revenue and launches a GBP200 million share buyback despite a hit from its Type 31 frigate programme, while Intertek says it is "minded" to accept a takeover proposal from EQT. Elsewhere, Vistry pauses its share buyback programme as it prioritises debt reduction amid more volatile market conditions. Read More
(Alliance News) - Compass Group raised annual profit guidance after reporting double-digit first-half operating profit growth, while GSK announced a China partnership for hepatitis B treatment bepirovirsen and the final tranche of its GBP2 billion buyback. Elsewhere, Victrex warned higher energy costs linked to the Middle East conflict could weigh on demand as interim profit declined. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Friday, after news that UK house price growth decelerated in April and the governing Labour party is suffering heavy local election losses. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 struggled on Thursday on a mixed day for stocks in London, and despite fresh falls in the oil price, as investors await fresh developments in the Middle East. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were mostly lower midday on Thursday, as markets wait for Tehran to respond to Washington's latest proposed peace deal, although a positive trading update from Helios Towers helped keep the FTSE 250 in the green. Read More
