LONDON (Alliance News) - Media buying giant WPP PLC Monday said its Hill+Knowlton Strategies communications consultancy has struck a deal to buy digital creative agency Rice5. The company didn't provide any financial details. Rice5 has offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai and made revenu 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) - WPP PLC said Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in Indian social media agency Social Wavelength via its wholly-owned operating company JWT. Social Wavelength is head-quartered in Mumbai, and posted revenues of INR91.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2013 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>RSA Insurance Group</strong> Tuesday launched a GBP773 million fully-underwritten, discounted rights issue in order to shore up its balance sheet, as Chief Executive Stephen Hester's recovery plan for the troubled FTSE 100 insurer begins to take shape.<br /><br Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have ignored a weak Asian session to open higher Tuesday.<br /><br />Europe's largest home improvement retailer<strong> Kingfisher</strong> gave a lift to the market, reporting an increase in profits and revenues for its recent financial year, despite continu Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - British advertising and public relations giant WPP PLC said Tuesday that it will acquired Chinese marketing services company XMKT Group. XMKT is head quartered in Shanghai, and has clients including Diageo and Uniqlo. In the year ended December 31, 2013, it had rev Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Metals and minerals producer <strong>Centamin</strong> is leading the FTSE 250 index Monday despite reporting a hit to pretax profit in 2013, due to a large exceptional cost, but a significant increase in revenue and production.<br /><br />Centamin said pretax profit f Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened mixed Monday despite a strong lead from Asian markets, as tensions in Ukraine continue to concern investors.<br /><br /><strong>Kentz</strong> Corp said its pretax profit increased in 2013 driven by revenue growth at its Technical Support Services di Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - British advertising and public relations giant WPP PLC Monday said it has acquired a majority stake in Cognifide Ltd, a digital technology consultancy in the UK, and its subsidiary has agreed to acquire a premium and gift specialist in China. WPP did not disclose an Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />BERENBERG CUTS SSE PRICE TARGET TO 1320 (1570) PENCE - 'HOLD' <br />----------<br />BERENBERG CUTS REED ELSEVIER TO 'HOLD' ('BUY Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - <strong>Prudential</strong> is the biggest gainer on the FTSE 100 Wednesday after the insurer's closely-watched operating profit grew by 17%, driven by its US and Asian operations, while <strong>G4S</strong> has plummeted after it reported a loss and finally settled wi Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - Media buying giant WPP PLC Wednesday said its marketing communications network Ogilvy & Mather has agreed to buy a majority stake in marketing services company Memac Ogilvy. It didn't provide any financial details. Memac Ogilvy, founded in Bahrain in 1984, ope Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - WPP PLC Tuesday said Chief Executive Officer Martin Sorrell exercised options over 817,500 shares under the company share plan Friday and sold 421,585 of these shares to discharge the consequential US tax liabilities. Following this transaction, Sorrell is intereste Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />UBS CUTS PEARSON PRICE TARGET TO 1,200 (1,400) PENCE - 'BUY' <br />----------<br />SOCGEN CUTS PEARSON PRICE TARGET TO 1030 (12 Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - WPP PLC Friday said Non-Executive Director Jacques Aigrain bought 4,000 shares at a price of GBP12.79 each, representing his only holding in the company. The advertising and media buying company Thursday reported a near 20% rise in pretax profit to GBP1.3 billion in Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning:<br />----------<br /><strong>FTSE 100</strong><br />----------<br />JEFFERIES RAISES MAN GROUP TO 'HOLD' ('UNDERPERFORM') <br />----------<br />BARCLAYS RAISES MAN GROUP PRICE TARGET TO 108 (94) P Read More
LONDON (Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 closed higher Thursday on the busiest day of the earnings season so far, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's latest comments pushed up stocks on Wall Street, dragging Europe with it.<br /><br />London's blue-chip index has spent most of the day in t Read More