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>Admiral</strong> Group, up 7%. The motor insurer reported a 7% increase in 2013 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Standard Chartered</strong> PLC reported its first annual decline in pretax profit after a decade of growth, as it was hit by emerging Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Online gaming software company Playtech PLC Wednesday said its founder Teddy Sagi had ended up selling a 15% stake in the business after strong demand for his share placing. The company had said Tuesday that Sagi's Brickington Trading Ltd was proposing to sell about Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Playtech PLC Tuesday said that the company's founder Teddy Sagi is selling a 10% stake in the company. The online gaming software supplier said that Brickington Trading Ltd, a company in which Sagi is beneficially interested, is proposing to sell around 29.3 million Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />JEFFERIES RAISES MAN GROUP TO 'HOLD' ('UNDERPERFORM') <br />----------<br />BARCLAYS RAISES MAN GROUP PRICE TARGET TO 108 (94) P Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares are adding to their gains at the open Friday amid some positive UK and European economic data. <br /><br />Troubled FTSE 250 outsourcing firm<strong> Serco</strong> is up 10% after pulling off something of a coup by recruiting the CEO of FTSE 100 temporary po 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) - Playtech PLC Wednesday said Managing Director Shmuel Weiss exercised options over 200,000 shares at an exercise price of GBP4.35 and sold the shares at GBP8.31 Tuesday in a deal worth approximately GBP1.6 million. Shares in the software company were quoted at 804.00 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>Weir</strong> Group, up 6.5%. Despite reporting a fall in profit and revenue fo Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's main stock indices are lower Wednesday, weighed on by a number of disappointing corporate announcements, as well a revision downwards in the annual growth rate of the UK economy last year. By mid-morning Wednesday, the FTSE 100 is down 0.4% at 6,801.25, the Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks extended their recent gains Thursday, reversing early losses during a day driven by economic data.<br /><br />In the end, London's major indexes all ended slightly higher, but only after positive economic data from the US helped push up stocks on Wall Street Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Centrica, up 3%. The major energy supplier's shares have jumped despite it reporting that pretax profit fell 32% to GBP1.65 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Thursday. ---------- COMPANIES ---------- Defence giant BAE Systems has reported a sharp drop in profit in 2013 as sharply higher impairment charges more than offset higher revenues, and the company wa Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Playtech PLC Thursday expressed confidence for 2014 and announced a special dividend as it saw revenues rise in the financial year 2013, and pretax profit boosted by the sale of its share in William Hill Online to William Hill PLC. The gaming and betting software co Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 is set to open lower Thursday, following disappointing manufacturing data from China, and after the US Federal Reserve indicated it will continue with the course of tapering its stimulus programme Wednesday evening. The Chinese manufacturing sector cont Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks have struggled to get off the ground Wednesday, closing broadly unchanged despite some impressive individual stock performances. The FTSE 100 initially opened higher, continuing a rally that has seen the index retrace most of January's losses. However, after bre Read More