LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Rolls-Royce Holdings, up 2.9%. The group is the biggest riser on the blue-chip index after it said after the UK equity market Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC is expected this week to announce price cuts and GBP500 million of property sales to combat discount rivals such as Aldi and ease shareholder worries, according to the The Sunday Times. The major British supermarket is poised to go a ste Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open slightly lower Monday, taking cue from Asian counterparts. Over the weekend, data from China revealed that exports from the world's second largest economy declined unexpectedly in February. Exports declined by 18% in February, reversi Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning and Wednesday afternoon:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS RAISES SHIRE PRICE TARGET TO 3450 (3180) PENCE - 'NEUTRAL'<br />----------<br />UBS RAISES ASTRAZE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stock indices opened lower Wednesday and never recovered. While a busy day of corporate news provided some stand-out movers, a number of stocks going ex-dividend provided a drag, while a small downgrade to the UK's 2013 GDP numbers appeared to keep overall sentiment ne Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - ITV reported higher profits and revenues for 2013 and gave a bullish outlook for 2014, but has seen its shares punished Wednesday after it failed to increase its special dividend. The television company raised its total dividend for 2013 to 3.5 pence, from 2.6 pence Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Tesco PLC fired the opening salvo in a new supermarket price war Tuesday as it announced a multimillion-pound investment in price cuts, but big rival Asda immediately hit back, The Times reports Wednesday. Britain?s biggest supermarket was also forced to concede pub Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />CITIGROUP CUTS ROLLS-ROYCE TO 'NEUTRAL' ('BUY') <br />----------<br />BERENBERG CUTS TATE & LYLE PRICE TARGET TO 775 (900) Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />JPMORGAN RAISES LLOYDS TO 'OVERWEIGHT' ('NEUTRAL') - TARGET 95 (84) PENCE <br />----------<br />SOCGEN RAISES LLOYDS PRICE TARGE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened mixed in London Friday, with blue-chips lagging mid- and small-caps despite <strong>Anglo American</strong> and <strong>Coca Cola HBC</strong> both reporting swings to profit in 2013. Anglo American is up 1.7% at the open, while Coca Cola HBC is down Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks indices have closed flat Wednesday at the end of a relatively subdued session for equities. Meanwhile the pound made its strongest gains of the year against both the dollar and the euro after the Bank of England increased its economic growth forecasts for UK.</p Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney Wednesday said the central bank still thinks interest rates will have to remain where there are for some time for come, as he changed the bank's trigger for discussing rate rises to the takeup of "spare capacity" in the economy rath Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Babcock International</strong> Group, up 2.4%. The company has confirmed its jo Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Tullow Oil</strong> PLC said its pretax profit fell significantly in its recent full year, due to lower disposal gains and higher expl Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks trade mixed Wednesday morning. A positive night in Asia, driven by unexpectedly strong trade growth in China, led to a mildly positive start in London. However, with no additional drivers for the market since, all eyes are on Bank of England Governor Mark Carney Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened mostly flat Wednesday, as the market awaits the Bank of England's Quarterly Inflation Report at 1030 GMT. <br /><br /><strong>Telecity</strong> is holding back the FTSE 250. The data-centre provider is down 13% after announcing higher 2013 profit and Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The founding family of grocer Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC has contacted private-equity funds such as CVC Capital Partners Ltd and Carlyle Group LP to weigh their interest in taking the retailer private, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Wednesday, citing people with knowle Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's main stock indices closed higher Tuesday, with both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 closing up for a fifth consecutive day, as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested the central bank will continue to taper its quantitative easing programme in coming months. <p Read More