LONDON (Alliance News) - Rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group PLC Thursday said it will buy Hong Kong-based injection moulded components and tools maker ACE Corporation Holdings Ltd for up to USD430 million, an acquisition it has been working on for three years. In a statement, RPC sa Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Lloyds Banking Group</strong> kicked off the first-quarter bank earnings season Thursday, reporting that its pretax profit dropped by a third to GBP1.37 billion after last year was buoyed by gains on the sale of government securities.<br /><br />However, its un 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>Lloyds Banking</strong> Group, up 4.8%. The banking group is the biggest riser in the Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Thursday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Lloyds Banking</strong> Group PLC said its first-quarter pretax profit fell to GBP1.37 billion from GBP2.04 billion a year earlier, whe Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group PLC Thursday said it will buy Hong Kong-based injection moulded components and tools maker ACE Corporation Holdings Ltd for up to USD430 million, an acquisition it has been working on for three years. In a statement, RPC sa Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group PLC Thursday said it will buy Hong Kong-based injection moulded components and tools maker ACE Corporation Holdings Ltd for up to USD430 million, an acquisition it has been working on for three years. In a statement, RPC sa Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened higher Thursday amid holidays across Asia and Europe. The US Federal Reserve late Wednesday continued to taper its bond-buying programme, showing confidence in the US economic recovery despite a weak GDP reading earlier in the day.<br /><br /><str Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />GOLDMAN RAISES BAT PRICE TARGET TO 3470 (3408) PENCE - 'NEUTRAL' <br />----------<br />GOLDMAN CUTS DIAGEO PRICE TARGET TO 1855 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK regulators have now confirmed they will investigate whether the country's major energy companies are preventing effective competition in the market, a decision that prompted British Gas parent Centrica to warn that the review could delay crucial investments in new i 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>Old Mutual</strong>, up 0.5%. The group has agreed to sell Skandia Germany and S Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Rigid plastic packaging business RPC Group PLC Thursday said revenue in the fourth quarter is expected to be ahead of the previous year due to the inclusion of recently acquired businesses and better underlying activity levels. In a pre-close trading statement for t Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS RAISES KINGFISHER PRICE TARGET TO 440 (420) PENCE - 'NEUTRAL' <br />----------<br />HSBC RAISES KINGFISHER PRICE TARGET TO Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened lower Thursday following a weak close in NY on Wednesday.<br /><br /><strong>Babcock International</strong> is leading the FTSE 100 lower after announcing a GBP1.10 billion rights issue to fund the GBP920 million acquisition of helicopter firm Avinci Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />GOLDMAN STARTS VODAFONE WITH 'BUY' - PRICE TARGET 275 PENCE <br />----------<br />MORGAN STANLEY RAISES ASTRAZENECA PRICE TARGET Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Global equity markets have turned lower once again Thursday after the Federal Reserve cut its massive monthly bond-buying by a further USD10 billion late Wednesday, taking it down to USD65 billion, from USD85 billion in November.<br /><br />Equity markets had risen in Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - RPC Group PLC Thursday said its third quarter profits were ahead of the year-earlier period and in line with management expectations as activity levels improved, it cut costs and improved its sales mix towards more profitable products. The rigid plastic packaging su Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Thursday, following the decision of the US Federal Reserve to continue tapering its asset purchases.<br /><br />A large number of UK company reports at the open have seen a positive statement from <strong>BSkyB</strong>, up 2.4% at the open, Read More