LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>GlaxoSmithKline</strong> PLC Wednesday reported a drop in revenue and net profit for the first quarter due to asset sales and a decline in sales of pharmaceuticals in the US, but the company also raised its dividend and reiterated its full-year profit guidance 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>Royal Dutch Shell</strong>, up 4.7%. The oil and gas giant said its earnings almost Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd saw its shares jump by nearly a third Wednesday after it said it has already been approached by a number of technology companies that might be suitable for a reverse takeover once conversion from a gold exploration company has been approved by its shar Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Pharmaceutical stocks are reigning over the first session following the long Easter bank holiday, with mergers and acquisitions leading investor interest.<br /><br /><strong>GlaxoSmithKline</strong> has signed a three-part inter-conditional transaction with Swiss healt Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday.<br />-------<br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br />-------<br /><strong>AstraZeneca</strong>, up 7.1%. The pharmaceutical company has jumped after The Sunday Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd Tuesday set out plans to sell all its assets and become an investment company, while revealing board changes and a share placing that raised USD1.7 million, all aimed at solving its current financing woes. The gold mining company, which is yet t Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd Thursday said it has requested to voluntarily delist from the Toronto Stock Exchange, a process expected to take place on April 23. The gold mining company, which is yet to produce any revenues, said in reaching its decision, the Board considered Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Weir Group</strong>'s takeover approach to Finnish rival Metso is the biggest of a flurry of deals and potential deals announced Tuesday, with <strong>GKN</strong> acquiring the William's Formula 1 team parent's hybrid engine unit and <strong>Capita</strong> bo 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 />FTSE 100 - WINNERS<br /><br /><strong>Aberdeen Asset Management</strong>, up 6.1%. The asset manager estimates net outflows slowed to ap Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd Tuesday said its pretax loss widened in 2013 as it a wrote down the value of assets including property and equipment, and it again warned that it faced defaulting on some payments if it can't get new funding. The gold mining company, which is yet Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The strong start to the year for UK initial public offerings continued Friday as <strong>Boohoo.com</strong> became the fifth UK retailer to float in 2014, conditional dealings for oil rigs company <strong>Gulf Marine Services</strong> got under way, and <strong>OneSav Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Friday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>J Sainsbury</strong>, up 3.2%, and <strong>Tesco</strong>, up 0.9%. The food retai Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd Friday said it has raised GBP100,000 through a subscription of 19.9 million new shares at 0.5021 pence each by new investors, money it will use for working capital while it repositions itself and considers new opportunities. It didn't give any de Read More
(An item published at 1259 GMT misstated the market prices. The correct version follows.) LONDON (Alliance News) - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods and food giant<strong> Unilever</strong> Tuesday kicked off the latest UK earnings season, reporting lower revenues for the fourth quarter and who Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods and food giant<strong> Unilever</strong> Tuesday kicked off the latest UK earnings season, reporting lower revenues for the fourth quarter and whole of 2013, but its earnings beat expectations as margins were supported by price increases and Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Tuesday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Unilever, up 3.8%. The consumer goods and food giant reported a drop in revenues for the fourth quarter, as expected, but be Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Touchstone Gold Ltd Tuesday said that if it cannot find additional funding it will not be able to meet scheduled payments to vendors of its concession contracts. The company, which suspended all exploration activities during 2013 after being hit hard by the fall in Read More