LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are lower across the board Friday, while the price of Brent oil has risen to a nine-month high, as investors show concern over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, where radical militants have taken control of part of the country and are threatening to attack th Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Persimmon PLC Friday said a group of directors sold shares for tax purposes Thursday.<br /><br />Details are as follows.<br /><br /> <table class="w" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="l" valign="top"><p class="x"><span class="n">Name</span> </ Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>Smith & Nephew</strong>, up 5.1%. Hot on the heels of Stryker Corp denying plans Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's leading share indices are trading slightly lower Thursday, while major European indices, along with the euro, are barely moved ahead of the all-important policy announcement from the European Central Bank at 1245 BST. By mid-morning Thursday the FTSE 100 is Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Persimmon PLC Tuesday said a group of directors were allotted bonus shares at a price of 513.07 pence per share under the company share plan Monday.<br /><br />Details are as follows. <table class="y" style="width: 463px; height: 266px;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding= Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - US stocks are set to open a little firmer Thursday, with the focus squarely on the release of revised first-quarter GDP numbers at 1330 BST. Futures trading currently indicates that the DJIA, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq Composite all will open between 0.1% to 0.2% h Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks got off to a bad start Monday and never fully recovered after a further softening in Chinese house prices brought concerns over slowing growth in the world's second largest economy to the fore, while the reduced chance of some heavyweight merger and acquisiti Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are lower Monday as investors express concern over some weaker-than-expected Chinese house price data, while the FTSE 100 index is losing lustre as the possibility of big merger and acquisition activity fades. By mid-morning Monday the FTSE 100 is down 0.7 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 reached a fourteen-year high Tuesday as a dearth of fresh headlines out of Ukraine allowed investors to contemplate the potential for further monetary easing by central banks in China and Europe.<br /><br />Weak Chinese industrial production and retail sal Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br />-------<br />F<strong>TSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>Barratt Developments</strong>, up 3.1%, and Persimmon, up 2.1%. The housebuilders have Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's main stock indices are higher Tuesday, with the FTSE 100 having reached its highest level in fourteen years, as markets continue to leave geopolitical concerns on the back-burner and focus instead on the potential for further central bank stimulus from both China Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK housebuilders Friday hit back at the Labour Party's criticism that they hoard land, publishing research which they say shows developers are not building on only a small percentage of land which could be under construction. According to their trade body, The Home Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 lost ground Tuesday, snapping a five day winning streak as investors returned from a long weekend, over which the conflict in Ukraine continued to escalate, to some disappointing corporate news from the likes of <strong>Barclays</strong> and <strong>Balfou Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Persimmon leads the UK housebuilders higher Tuesday, up 3.5% after Barclays published a positive report on the sector that was particularly flattering for the York-based company. Of all the housebuilders, Persimmon has arguably been the largest beneficiary of the He Read More
(Correcting AstraZeneca made its statement on Tuesday.) LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>Persimmon</strong>, up 3 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>Persimmon</strong>, up 3.6%, and <strong>Barratt Developments</strong>, up 1.8%. The h Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />TRADERS: NUMIS RAISES MELROSE INDUSTRIES TO 'HOLD' ('REDUCE') <br />----------<br />TRADERS: SOCGEN RAISES RBS PRICE TARGET TO Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Gresham House PLC Thursday said it has exchanged contracts with Persimmon Homes Ltd, a division of UK housebuilder Persimmon PLC, for the sale of 20 acres of its 28 acre site at Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside in a deal worth GBP7.4 million in cash, plus overage, conditiona Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's biggest retailer, <strong>Tesco</strong>, Wednesday reported a second consecutive decline in its annual trading profit as it was hit by lower sales in both the UK and Europe, and said it would respond to the growing encroachment by the discount retailers by in 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 />FTSE 100 - WINNERS<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>Sports Direct International</strong>, up 6.2%. Shares of the sports retailer Read More