LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are set to open slightly lower Friday, following a volatile session on Thursday, as concerns about the escalating crisis in Ukraine threaten to overshadow yet another batch of broadly positive US corporate earnings reports. Stock markets in Europe and the Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 closed Thursday at its highest level for more than six weeks, boosted by some strong quarterly earnings results from US companies. <br /><br />However, European markets moved sharply off their highs late in the session as tensions in Ukraine ratcheted up.< 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) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />JEFFERIES CUTS WILLIAM HILL TO 'HOLD' ('BUY') <br />----------<br />GOLDMAN CUTS IMPERIAL TOBACCO TO 'BUY' ('CONVICTION BUY LI Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares in online gaming company 32Red PLC were on the rise Wednesday, after it said that trading has picked up in recent weeks, it remains confident in the business' prospects, and it is confident in meeting financial expectations for the year. Up until the market c Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - WINNERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Standard Life</strong>, up 5.2%. The company has agreed to buy Ignis Asset Mana Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS CUTS ITV TO 'NEUTRAL' ('BUY') - TARGET 210 (230) PENCE <br />----------<br />GOLDMAN CUTS STANDARD CHARTERED PRICE TARGET Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened higher Wednesday, as the UK government completed its second sales of shares in <strong>Lloyds Bank</strong>. <br /><br />The UK government said it has raised GBP4.2 billion from the sale, meaning it has now recouped GBP7.41 billion of the roughly GBP Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday.<br /><br />-------<br /><br /><strong>FTSE 100 - LOSERS</strong><br /><br /><strong>Barratt Developments</strong>, down 2.1%. Following the quarterly FTSE review on Ma Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are trading lower Monday as investors grow increasingly concerned by the crisis in Ukraine and another set of weak Chinese data. Meanwhile, the euro, after jumping on the back of some stronger-than-expected PMI data from France, has been hit after PMI data Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />TRADER: MORGAN STANLEY REMOVES IAG FROM 'EUROPE BEST IDEAS LIST'<br />----------<br />TRADERS: MORGAN STANLEY RAISES PRICE TARGE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 closed fractionally higher Friday, ensuring that it ended the week in the black for the first time in four weeks despite losses mid-week due to the UK budget and a press conference by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. There was little in the way of ma Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Friday. ------- FTSE 100 - WINNERS Meggitt, up 1.2%. UBS has upgraded the engineering company to Buy, from Neutral, and increased its price target to 530.00 pen Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK stocks are narrowly mixed Friday, shrugging off strong gains posted by Asian and US equities overnight, amid a dearth of fresh UK macroeconomic data. By mid-morning, the FTSE 100 is up 0.4% at 6,565.69, while the FTSE 250 is down 0.1% at 16,207.53, and the AIM Al Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS RAISES MEGGITT TO 'BUY' ('NEUTRAL') - TARGET 520 (530) PENCE <br />----------<br />BARCLAYS CUTS RBS TO 'EQUAL WEIGHT' ('OVE Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK equities are attempting to rebalance today in the wake of the tax and regulatory changes unveiled in Wednesday's government budget.<br /><br />Life insurance companies have continued to take a battering during morning trading, following the announcement by Chancello Read More