(Alliance News) - The chair of Tesco PLC has said there is an "overwhelming need" for a windfall tax on energy companies after seeing the supermarket's customers "extremely stretched". Read More
(Alliance News) - Investors in London-listed blue-chip equities are set for a bumper year of returns, research from AJ Bell showed on Monday, with share buybacks on track to hit a record high. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were lower at midday on Friday as concerns over rising interest rates and surging inflation plague investors. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Friday following heavy selling in New York on Thursday, while International Consolidated Airlines fell sharply after missing market forecasts. Read More
(Alliance News) - Shell PLC is the best performing FTSE 100 stock in the year-to-date, after Thursday's better-than-expected first quarter results propelled shares higher. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 saw strong gains on Thursday fade away into the close, dragged down by losses in New York and a worrying outlook for the UK economy from the Bank of England. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were higher, while the pound was flat, on Thursday, after the Bank of England as expected raised UK interest rates by a quarter percentage point. Read More
(Alliance News) - Shell PLC on Thursday reported a surge in earnings in the first quarter of 2022 as the firm benefitted from soaring energy prices, despite seeing a nearly USD4 billion charge from exiting Russia. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened sharply higher on Thursday after the US Federal reserve assuaged fears over further aggressive monetary policy tightening, while positive updates from Mondi and Shell boosted the FTSE 100. Read More
(Alliance News) - Shell on Thursday reported a substantial rise in first-quarter earnings due to the surging price of oil, even as it joined energy peers in taking a write-down from exiting Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were seen opening higher on Thursday, tracking gains in US equity markets overnight, after the US Federal Reserve played down chances of a large interest rate hike in the near future. Read More
(Alliance News) - Climate activists on Wednesday disrupted annual shareholder meetings of British banks Barclays PLC and Standard Chartered PLC, angry at the firms' funding of fossil fuel projects. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 crept into the new week after the bank holiday, with traders digesting a bounce-back for stocks in New York overnight and sharp losses in Europe on Monday. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were lower at midday on Tuesday following the long bank holiday weekend in the UK, as markets globally prepare for a sharp US interest rate hike and similar moves by other central banks as they struggle to control inflation. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Tuesday following the long bank holiday weekend, with BP shares rising as the oil major planned to return cash to shareholders amid calls by some UK politicians for a windfall profit tax on energy companies. Read More
