LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened lower Friday on geopolitical worries ahead of the weekend, despite some good news for UK companies. <br /><br />The US government on Thursday decided to lift the ban on <strong>BP</strong> from federal government contracts imposed after the Deepwater Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's blue-chip index ended the day in the red for the fifth consecutive day Thursday, with about GBP2.4 billion combined wiped off the values of the big three listed supermarkets after a terrible report from Wm Morrision Supermarkets. Morrisons announced a raft Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - It's all about retailers Thursday, with the listed supermarkets all down sharply due to even weaker-than-expected results and a warning about this year from <strong>Wm Morrison Supermarkets</strong>, while Argos and Homebase parent <strong>Home Retail</strong> rose sha 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>Barclays</strong>, up 2.7%. Numis has upgraded the bank to Add from Hold, increa Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Thursday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br />Shares in <strong>Wm Morrison Supermarket</strong> PLC dropped at the open after reporting a 13% decline in underlying profits in its recent fi Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Home Retail Group PLC shares hit the highest level for nearly three years Thursday, after the home and general merchandise retailer reported strong like-for-like sales growth from both its Argos and Homebase chains in its last financial year. Home Retail said it now Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Supermarkets are heavily underperforming within UK stocks Thursday after Morrisons joined the race to slash costs and cut prices, while European markets as a whole are trading mixed, lacking any clear direction after Wednesday's heavy falls. By mid-morning Thursday Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Home Retail Group PLC saw its shares rise by 5% Thursday, after the home and general merchandise retailer reported strong like-for-like sales growth from both its Argos and Homebase chains for the financial year just ended. Home Retail said it now expects group benc Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened flat to down Thursday following weak economic data from China.<br /><br />Shares in <strong>Wm Morrison Supermarkets</strong> are down 8% after reporting a 13% drop in underlying profits for its recent financial year, swung to a pretax loss on huge e Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open marginally higher Thursday, after mixed sessions in Asia and despite more disappointing Chinese economic numbers. Overnight Chinese data showed industrial production growth, retail sales growth, and urban investment growth all fell unexpect Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK and European stocks opened lower Wednesday and continued to slide throughout the day as increased concern over the health of China's economy, unconvincing economic numbers, the ongoing tension in Ukraine, as well as number of large cap stocks going ex-dividend, all hel Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Logistics services business Wincanton PLC Wednesday said it has traded in line with market expectations and has renewed a number of profitable contracts since October 1, 2013. During the period, the group renewed its contract with high-street stationer WH Smith PLC Read More
(Clarifying in original article that ran on Thursday that customers will use the Proxama technology to download an Argos mobile app.) LONDON (Alliance News) - Mobile payments firm Proxama PLC Thursday said it is helping to enhance the customer experience at high street favourite Argos, thro Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Mobile payments firm Proxama PLC Thursday said it is enabling shoppers at high street favourite Argos to pay for items using Near Field Communication-enabled smartphones. From January 18 in 40 Argos stores throughout the UK, shoppers have been able to tap their NFC- 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 />JPMORGAN RAISES WOLSELEY PRICE TARGET TO 3800 (3550) PENCE - 'OVERWEIGHT' <br />----------<br />JPMORGA Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />GOLDMAN CUTS TESCO PRICE TARGET TO 285 (320) PENCE - 'SELL' <br />----------<br />JPMORGAN RAISES NATIONAL GRID PRICE TARGET T Read More