LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>J Sainsbury</strong> Wednesday reported another drop in like-for-like sales, its second consecutive quarterly decline after nine years of unbroken sales growth. <br /><br />The UK's third-largest supermarket chain by market share posted a 1.1% decline in like-f Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>J Sainsbury</strong> PLC reported another drop in like-for-like sales, its second consecutive quarterly decline, after nine years of u Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>J Sainsbury</strong> PLC reported another drop in like-for-like sales, its second consecutive quarterly decline, after nine years of u Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Sainsbury's</strong> leads FTSE 100 gainers at the open Wednesday despite reporting its second consecutive decline in quarterly sales.<br /><br />However, the overall market has opened lower, depressed by a group of ex-dividend stocks such as <strong>Vodafone</ Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK Energy regulator Ofgem has said that the big energy suppliers in the UK must engage with customers over the impact of falling wholesale costs on energy prices or risk further undermining public confidence. In recent months, wholesale gas and electricity prices ha Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - SSE PLC Friday said a group of executives acquired shares under the company share plan at a price of GBP15.61 pence per share.<br /><br />Details are as follows.<br /><br /> <table class="aw" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr class="ai"><td class="am" style Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Polymer products manufacturer <strong>Fenner</strong> saw its shares plummet Friday, after it issued a profit warning that it blamed on a further deterioration in trading in the US and the loss of a profitable contract in Australia.<br /><br />It is the biggest faller Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK energy supplier SSE PLC Friday said it has made a payment of GBP750,000 to the Scottish Hydro Electricity Community Trust after the UK energy regulator Ofgem imposed the fine for providing too slow grid connections to around 200 customers between 2010 and 2013. T Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Burberry Group</strong> Wednesday said that demand for its luxury outerwear, leather goods and menswear continued unabated in Asia, driving another increase in its annual profit.<br /><br />The company said it will increase investments by GBP200 million, pumpin Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>Petrofac</strong>, up 1.8%, and <strong>AstraZeneca</strong>, up 1.6%. The companies Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Burberry</strong> Group PLC reported a higher pretax profit and revenues for its last financial year, as outerwear, large leather good Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - SSE PLC Wednesday reported a slight increase in pretax profit for the full year, as a one-off charge of GBP742.2 million coupled with a fall in profit for its retail business took its toll. The energy supplier posted pretax profit of GBP575.3 million for the year e Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Wednesday, following a negative lead from Wall Street and Asia and ahead of the release of central bank meeting minutes in the UK and US.<br /><br />A few interesting executive changes have been announced before the London open Wednesday. <b Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open marginally lower Wednesday, following a negative close on Wall Street on Tuesday and ahead the release of minutes from recent meetings of the policy-setting committees of the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve. Wall Street fell shar Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 moved in opposite directions Tuesday, as London's major stocks indices closed mixed, driven by some big moves by individual stocks. The UK's blue-chip index closed at its lowest level for almost two weeks, as it was weighed upon by some of Read More