LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Wednesday said non-executive director Phil Hodkinson bought 2,406 shares at a price of 412.98 pence per share and now holds 25,263 shares in the telecommunications company. BT shares were quoted at 413.16 pence down 1.2% Wednesday. By Arvind Bhunj Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC said Wednesday that senior independent non-executive Director Patricia Hewitt had bought 1,017 shares at a price of 393.13 pence each Tuesday. Following this transaction Hewitt holds 19,251 shares in the company. Shares in BT were trading down 0.3 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning and Monday afternoon:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />MORGAN STANLEY CUTS BG GROUP TO 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' ('OVERWEIGHT') <br />----------<br />GOLDMAN CUTS GKN TO 'S Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Wednesday said Finance Director Gavin Patterson and a group of divisional chief executives were awarded shares under the company plan at a price of GBP3.8330 each.<br /><br />Details are as follows.<br /><br /> <p class="ca">GAVIN PATTERSON: 23,18 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Wednesday said Chairman Michael Rake, Chief Executive Gavin Patterson and Graham Sutherland a divisional chief acquired shares as part of a dividend reinvestment at a price of 385.7 pence per share Tuesday. Rake acquired 60 shares, Patterson acquired 89 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 has closed lower Friday, with large companies most exposed to emerging markets leading the falls as continued concern over an EM growth slowdown fuels a global flight to safety. Having fallen for eight of the last nine trading sessions, the UK's leading share Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Friday raised its full-year expectations for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, as revenue and pretax profit rose in its third quarter, boosted by uptake of its BT Sport service and fibre broadband services. The FTSE 100 telec Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 is set to post its worst January performance for five years after the global equities sell-off resumed Friday amid further concerns about slowing growth in emerging markets and some poor corporate reports in Europe and the US.<br /><br />The main London in Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Friday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Imperial Tobacco Group, up 2.5%. The tobacco giant is the leading gainer in the FTSE 100 after Goldman Sachs raised it to Con Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Friday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>BT Group</strong> PLC raised its full-year expectations for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, as it saw reven Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's leading share index is trading in the red once again Friday, led lower by Diageo and other stocks with high emerging market exposure, while defensive and small cap stocks perform better. Meanwhile, eurozone inflation falls further and sends the the euro to a new Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - A strong earnings report from <strong>BT Group</strong> has helped lift UK shares at the open Friday. The FTSE 100 telecom stock is up 3.7% at 384.60 pence.<br /><br />Brokers are providing their take on Thursday's corporate news makers, with Goldman Sach cutting <stro Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are called to open marginally lower Friday, following a mixed close on Thursday, amid a lack of UK data releases. Meanwhile, BT Group has raised its full-year EBITDA guidance following a strong third quarter. Having spent the latter part of January in decl Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Friday raised its full-year expectations for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, as it saw revenue and pretax profit rise in its third quarter. BT now expects full-year EBITDA to meet the upper end of the GBP6.0 billion to GBP6 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks closed mixed Thursday as positive US growth data pared some of the early losses made on the back of the Federal Open Market Committee's decision to continue to taper its quantitative easing programme. Unfazed by the recent sell-off in emerging markets, the Read More