LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories xxxxday.<br />----------<br />COMPANIES<br />----------<br /><strong>Royal Dutch Shell</strong> has reached a binding agreement to sell its Australia downstream businesses, excluding Aviation, to Dutch-owned oil trader Vit Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 is on track to post its sixth consecutive daily rise Friday, as weaker-than-expected UK retail sales and public finances data failed to dent the recent market positivity. By mid-morning, the FTSE 100 is up 0.4% at 6,836.91, just over 30 points shy of it Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - IP Group PLC shares jumped to the top of the FTSE 250 Friday after the firm announced that its portfolio company, Xeros Ltd, intends to float on AIM to raise funds to bring its cleaning product to the laundry market. The developer of intellectual property based busi Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - IP Group PLC shares jumped to the top of the FTSE 250 Friday after the firm announced that its portfolio company, Xeros Ltd intends to raise funds and apply for admission to trading on the AIM market. The developer of intellectual property based businesses said Xero Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - London's equity markets have focused on individual stocks Thursday after a plethora of earnings reports and trading updates, with <strong>Rolls-Royce Holdings</strong> and<strong> Tate & Lyle</strong> among the biggest losers after they cut guidance, and <strong>Im Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - IP Group PLC Thursday said it will increase the size of its capital raising by GBP25.0 million because of significant excess demand for its share issue, as it seeks to fund its growth in the US and to develop "novel" therapeutics through its spin-out companies. In a Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The market is dissecting the <strong>Lloyds Banking</strong> Group earnings statement early Thursday. The state-controlled bank said it swung to profit in 2013, while confirming its intentions to restart paying a dividend and to sell off more of the UK government's sha Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Mid Wynd International Investment Trust PLC Tuesday said its returns over the half year were significantly better than those of its benchmark, as good stock selection and higher share prices boosted the company's performance. In a statement, Mid Wynd, which is manag Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Tuesday amid continued worries about the US economy.<br /><br /><strong>Ocado</strong> shares are down 4.5% as it reported a wider pretax loss for 2013, though the online grocer said it expects to reach profitability this year.<br /><br />Br Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The global equities sell-off has continued Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve's next decision on whether to knock a further slice off its economic stimulus package, while negative news about <strong>Vodafone</strong> and <strong>BG Group</strong> are also weighing hea Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - IP Group PLC Monday said it has extended its commercialisation agreement with The University of Manchester to include funding for graphene projects. IP Group, which is known for its 20.4% stake in Applied Graphene Materials PLC, the graphene company that floated on Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Severn Trent</strong>, up 1.5%, and United Utilities, up 0.9%. The gains follow th Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Fusion IP PLC, the company set to be bought by IP Group PLC, Friday said Cardiff University spin-out Asalus Medical Instruments has received a CE mark, which will allow hospital across the EU to use its Ultravision system. The Ultravision system is a technology for Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney Friday signaled that rising productivity will now be the key factor that decides when the central bank will start to tighten monetary policy, and any tightening will be a slow, gradual process.<br /><br />In a speech at the World Ec Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Intellectual property business IP Group PLC Friday said the MinION Access Programme carried out by its portfolio firm Nanopore Technologies Limited was heavily oversubscribed. The MinION Access Programme is a substantial but initially controlled programme designed t Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Publisher Pearson is the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 Thursday after it issued a profit warning, saying trading had been weaker than it expected, particularly in North America, its main market. The Financial Times owner and publisher of education books said it had Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS London Stock Exchange, up 1.1%. The company said its third-quarter revenue increased by 52% year-on-year, buoyed by recentl Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - IP Group PLC and Fusion IP PLC Thursday unveiled a takeover deal that will see IP Group buy up the rest of the AIM-quoted company's shares, adding to its existing 20.1% stake. IP Group also said it will seek to raise GBP75.0 million in a share issue designed to fund Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened lower Thursday following disappointing PMI figures from China. Financial and education publisher <strong>Pearson</strong> is down 5.9% at the open after saying its 2013 performance was weaker than expected, particularly in North America.<br />< Read More