LONDON (Alliance News) - BT PLC said Wednesday that its BT Broadband customers will continue received its BT Sport service for free for a second football season, as it kept pressure on rival British Sky Broadcasting PLC. BT said that around five million homes have now taken up BT Sports, ni Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC said Wednesday that Chief Executive Clive Selley was bought 422 shares at a price of 355.39 pence per share under the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan on Tuesday. Selley now has a personal holding of 262,824 shares, has an interest in 207,958 sha Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC and TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC said Tuesday that they had partnered with CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings PLC in a joint venture to establish new broadband services in the city of York, with the aim of building a competing infrastructur Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br />FTSE 100 - WINNERS<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>Aggreko</strong>, up 2%. The temporary power supplier is a big gainer after the Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - British Sky Broadband PLC and TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC said Tuesday that they had partnered with CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings PLC in a joint venture to establish a new broadband services in the city of York, with the aim of building competing infrastructure to BT P Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS RAISES BT GROUP TO 'NEUTRAL' ('SELL') - TARGET 360 (350) PENCE <br />----------<br />HSBC CUTS G4S TO 'UNDERWEIGHT' <br /> Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Thursday, following dovish minutes from the US Federal Reserve Wednesday and ahead of a Bank of England interest rate announcement.<br /><br />British retailer <strong>Marks and Spencer</strong> Group PLC said group sales rose 1.9% in the l Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />BERNSTEIN CUTS BT GROUP TO MARKET-PERFORM (OUTPERFORM) - TARGET 385 PENCE<br />----------<br />HSBC RAISES IMI TO OVERWEIGHT Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - GB Group PLC said Wednesday that it expects to beat market consensus expectations for the year to end-March 2014. Due to both organic and acquisitive growth, it expects to see adjusted revenues to rise to GBP41.6 million from GBP36.3 million. Revenue will be adjuste Read More
(Correcting the name of the Australian company acquired by Ladbrokes last year.) LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Wednesday after two days of losses, following a firm close on Wall Street Tuesday.<br /><br />Among corporate newsmakers at the open,<strong> Rolls-Royce Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Wednesday after two days of losses, following a firm close on Wall Street Tuesday.<br /><br />Among corporate newsmakers at the open,<strong> Rolls-Royce</strong> Holdings PLC said it has won a USD100 million contract from the US Department Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Sports Direct International</strong> founder and deputy Chairman Mike Ashley has sold a 4% stake in the firm, causing a sharp fall in its share price, just days after the sports goods retailer's shareholders again rejected a proposal to pay him a bonus.<br /><b Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Fresnillo, up 1.1%, and Randgold Resources, up 0.8%. The mining companies are benefiting from a sharp rise in the price of g Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Tuesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Sports Direct</strong> International PLC said Mike Ashley, its founder and deputy chairman, sold 24 million ordinary shares, representin Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Tuesday on a weak lead from the US and renewed concerns about Ukraine.<br /><br /><strong>Barclays</strong> PLC has reached a settlement with Guardian Care Homes ahead of a court case that was being seen as the measure of whether customers w Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT PLC has poached British Sky Broadcasting PLC executive Delia Bushell to head up its television division, The Guardian reported late Monday. Bushell has worked at BSkyB and Sky Italia for 14 years, and was most recently chief commercial officer at Sky Italia. Bush Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Tuesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br />The <strong>Weir Group</strong> PLC and Finland's Metso Oyj confirmed that Glasgow-based Weir has made an unsolicited proposal to Metso for a me Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The Departure for Culture, Media and Sport's Broadband UK project to roll out fast broadband services to rural areas has come under fire from the government's spending watchdog for creating a "monopoly" for BT PLC, the Financial Times reported. A group of MPs found Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>RSA Insurance Group</strong> Tuesday launched a GBP773 million fully-underwritten, discounted rights issue in order to shore up its balance sheet, as Chief Executive Stephen Hester's recovery plan for the troubled FTSE 100 insurer begins to take shape.<br /><br Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - BT Group PLC Tuesday confirmed that it had inked a contract with EE Ltd to provide mobile virtual network operator services to its UK based customers and employees. Under the multi-year contract BT mobile customers will be able to access EE's 2G, 3G and 4G services. Read More