LONDON BROKER RATINGS: Goldman Sachs ups targets for Schroders, LSEG
19th Jan 2026 09:45
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning and on Friday: Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning and on Friday: Read More
(Alliance News) - Marshalls says it expects to meet market expectations for profit in 2025, Workspace Group Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Hutchings leaves the firm immediately, while WH Smith hires former Balfour Beatty CEO Leo Quinn as executive chair. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 ended a record breaking week in fine style, pushing back towards record levels, boosted by a possible mega-mining deal and a rebound in the oil price. Read More
Next PLC - Leicester, England-based clothing and homeware retailer - Picks a new non-board sales & marketing director, while also naming a new senior independent director for the board. Matt Barnes, currently the online customer services director, is promoted to group sales & marketing director, replacing Jane Shields, who will retire as sales, marketing & HR director and leave the Next board on May 21, when Next holds its annual general meeting. Barnes joined Next in 1999. He won't join the board "at this stage", Next says. Shields started with Next as a sales assistant in 1985 before becoming sales director in 1999 and sales & marketing director in 2010. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100's record breaking run stalled on Wednesday with falling metal and oil prices weighing on the blue chip index. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were mixed at midday on Wednesday, as the FTSE 100 snapped from its new year rally as a drop in the oil price weighed on BP and Shell. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning and on Tuesday: Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Wednesday, as the FTSE 100 retreated from a record high, as oil firms BP and Shell weighed on the blue-chip index. Read More
(Alliance News) - Reckitt Benckiser proposes a GBP1.6 billion special dividend, Great Portland Estates buys a long-term central London lease and Topps Tiles reports higher sales. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning and on Friday: Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC on Wednesday said it has reached an agreement with Vodafone Idea Ltd on the final amount payable under the contingent liability adjustment mechanism. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 was in festive mood on Tuesday, closing higher after a report showed improved UK business confidence and the US economy grew more than forecast in the third quarter. Read More
(Alliance News) - Gooch & Housego PLC on Friday named James Corte as its next chief financial officer and an executive director, with his start date set for the first half of 2026. Read More
Zegona Communications PLC - London-based investor in European telecommunications and media - Starts EUR200 million share buyback on Friday, having originally planned to start it in January after the repayment of financing from Vodafone Group PLC. The repayment of the EUR975 million in Vodafone financing is part of a EUR1.4 billion special dividend to shareholders to return proceeds from completion of Vodafone Spain's fibre joint venture with MasOrange, partly owned by France's Orange SA, and with Singapore state investor GIC. Zegona acquired Vodafone Spain from Vodafone last year. On Friday, Zegona says it now believes an earlier start to the concurrent share buyback is "in the best interests of shareholders". Zegona also plans a 69% share reduction by cancelling the shares held indirectly by Vodafone. Read More
Zegona Communications PLC - London-based investor in European telecommunications and media - Provides details of its plan to pay a EUR1.4 billion special dividend to return most of the EUR1.8 billion in proceeds from the completion of Vodafone Spain's fibre joint venture with MasOrange, partly owned by France's Orange SA, and with Singapore state investor GIC. The special dividend equates to EUR1.8632 per share. It will be paid on January 7 with an ex-dividend date of December 18. The dividend payment will settle EUR975 million in Vodafone financing in full, with the remainder going to Zegona shareholders. This will allow Zegona to cancel 523 million Zegona shares, reducing its share total by 69% to 236 million from 759 million. Zegona also plans a EUR200 million share buyback, starting in January. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations on Monday morning and on Friday: Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks were called to open higher on Monday, ahead of US consumer inflation expectations in the afternoon. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning and on Wednesday: Read More
(Alliance News) - Rio Tinto says earnings could rise by up to 50% by 2030, SSE and National Grid welcome Ofgem's approval of GBP28 billion of energy investment and SSP swings to a loss. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are set to open higher on Thursday, ahead of a swathe of construction PMI readings and initial jobless claims data in the US. Read More