LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS BHP Billiton, up 1.2%. The Anglo-Australian mining giant has reported an 83% increase in profit for the first half of fiscal Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Goldstone Resources Ltd saw its shares slide Tuesday after it said test results from drilling on the Baraboye and Ibel prospects at its Sangola joint venture project in Senegal had not returned gold intercepts that justify an immediate follow-up programme.# In a sta Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Hammerson, up 2.9%. The retail property developer has reported an increase in profit and rental income for 2013 as demand for Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's main stock indices are pushing higher Monday, driven by corporate news and ratings changes amid a lack of economic indicators and a US holiday. By mid-morning Monday, the FTSE 100 is up 0.8% at 6,719.00, the FTSE 250 is up 0.4% at 16,172.22, and the AIM All Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendation or price target changes Monday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />CITI RAISES RANDGOLD RESOURCES TO 'NEUTRAL' ('SELL') - TARGET 4897 (3544) PENCE <br />----------<br />GOL 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
(An item published at 1325 GMT mis-spelt the Fed Chair's surname in the title. The correct version follows.) LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 is up for a fifth consecutive day Tuesday amid a continuing global stock rally, with the London blue chip index helped by strong performances Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 is up for a fifth consecutive day Tuesday amid a continuing global stock rally, with the London blue chip index helped by strong performances from the retailers and miners.<br /><br />Retail stocks including <strong>Sports Direct International</strong>, <s Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Sports Direct</strong> International, up 4.1%, and <strong>Marks and Spencer</str Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stock indices have made strong gains Tuesday morning, led higher by the mining and retail stocks, on the back of rising precious metal prices and strong bumper retail sales data. Meanwhile Barclays leads the blue chip fallers after reporting its full-year results. < Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />BARCLAYS CUTS BG GROUP PRICE TARGET TO 1350 (1370) PENCE - 'EQUAL WEIGHT' <br />----------<br />BARCLAYS RAISES RSA INSURANCE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 closed lower for a fifth consecutive day Tuesday, even though the index was higher at one point, as concerns about the impact of the Federal Reserve's tapering of its economic stimulus programme continued to weigh on stock markets across the world.<br /><b Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks closed lower Monday as the global equity sell-off continued amid growing concerns about both the Chinese and US economies. Meanwhile, the pound was hit following weaker-than-expected UK PMI manufacturing data. UK stocks opened fractionally lower Monday aft Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK banks are still counting the cost of their product mis-selling, with Lloyds Banking Group Monday adding a further GBP1.93 billion to the amount it has set aside to cover claims for previous sales of payment protection insurance and interest rate hedging products. <p 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>Randgold Resources</strong>, up 2.1%. In a difficult environment for gold miners, Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are trading mixed Monday, with Lloyds Bank leading the FTSE 100 lower after announcing further provisions for compensation of past misdeeds. Meanwhile a raft of European PMI data has been released, with the UK's missing forecasts, sending the pound lower.< Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Randgold Resources Ltd Monday said it achieved record production in2013, but pretax profit fell because of the lower gold price. The major gold mining company said its pretax profit fell 27% to USD402.5 million for the full calendar year 2013 from USD547.8 million t Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open the month of February marginally lower Monday as risk aversion continues following January's poor stock market performance and ahead of bigger drivers to come this week. China's official non-manufacturing PMI slipped to its lowest level sin Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 has closed lower Friday, with large companies most exposed to emerging markets leading the falls as continued concern over an EM growth slowdown fuels a global flight to safety. Having fallen for eight of the last nine trading sessions, the UK's leading share Read More