UK Earnings, Trading Statements Calendar - Week Ahead
8th May 2014 15:37
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>Associated British Foods</strong>, up 8.9%. The food, ingredients and retail group r Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />CREDIT SUISSE RAISES WOLSELEY TO 'OUTPERFORM' ('NEUTRAL') - TARGET 4000 (3400) PENCE <br />----------<br />TRADERS: CREDIT SU Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares are flat to higher Wednesday following a firm close in the US. <br /><br />Several UK blue-chips and mid-caps - including <strong>Reed Elsevier</strong>, <strong>ARM Holdings</strong> and <strong>MoneySupermarket.com</strong> - sought to provide reassurance a Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 closed higher Thursday, ensuring that it ended the shortened Easter week comfortably in the black, as some better-than-expected US data and some strong earnings reports from major US banks boosted sentiment.<br /><br />UK stocks traded in tight ranges earl Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>RSA Insurance Group</strong> Chief Executive Stephen Hester Thursday went a long way to meeting his asset disposal target, selling the insurer's Polish and Baltic operations as part of its efforts to shore up its balance sheet in the wake of big losses in Irela Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Thursday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS ------- RSA Insurance Group, up 2.3%. The insurer said it has sold its operations in the Baltics and Poland for GBP30 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Standard & Poor's or S&P Rating Services has lifted its outlook on Tour operator Thomas Cook Group PLC from Stable to Positive, the company said Thursday, following a detailed financial review of the group's progress in implementing its transformation strategy. S&P' Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />MORGAN STANLEY RAISES TUI TRAVEL PRICE TARGET TO 470 (380) PENCE - 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' <br />----------<br />BERNSTEIN RAISES ARM TO Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened lower Tuesday on a weak lead from the US and renewed concerns about Ukraine.<br /><br /><strong>Barclays</strong> PLC has reached a settlement with Guardian Care Homes ahead of a court case that was being seen as the measure of whether customers w 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) - The following is a summary of top news stories Thursday.<br />----------<br /><strong>COMPANIES</strong><br />----------<br /><strong>Babcock International</strong> Group PLC said it has agreed to buy helicopter form Avincis Group for GBP920 million from Investindustri Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK travel operator Thomas Cook Group PLC Thursday said that winter trading was satisfactory, despite the number of bookings hit by the continued political unrest in Egypt, and said that customer booking for its Summer 2014 programme have shown an improving trend, with aro 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) - UK equities are set to open in the red Thursday, following a poor close on Wall Street on Wednesday. US equities moved broadly higher at the start of trading, before interest waned and the early gains were reversed. Eventually, the DJIA closed down 0.6%, the S&P 500 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the FTSE 100 ending the day almost perfectly flat, as investors were starved of any fresh UK macroeconomic data.<br /><br />London's major stock indices all opened the session firmly higher as traders were by buoyed by a positive Read More