(Alliance News) - Workspace Group PLC on Friday lifted its half-year dividend and reported a swing to profit, hailing "good customer demand and continued pricing growth". Read More
(Alliance News) - Blue-chips London opened on the up on Friday, shaking off poor UK retail sales data, while counterparts in Frankfurt climbed despite a pair of tepid readings of the German economy. Read More
(Alliance News) - GSK PLC said on Friday that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare has approved the expansion of its Arexvy respiratory syncytial virus vaccine to include adults aged 50 to 59 who are at increased risk of severe RSV. Read More
J Sainsbury PLC - London-based supermarket chain - Launches final quarter of its GBP200 million share buyback programme. The GBP50 million buyback will be run by UBS AG. It will start on Friday and be completed by February 24, just prior to Sainsbury's financial year-end of March 1. The first tranche of the buyback was started in April and completed in October. Sainsbury bought back 54.8 million shares for GBP150 million in total. The buyback is solely to reduce share capital. Read More
(Alliance News) - Mitsui & Co Ltd on Friday said a consortium in which it participates has reached a final investment decision regarding the Tangguh Ubadari joint venture gas project. Read More
(Alliance News) - Ofgem has confirmed UK household energy bills are to rise again from January 1 as it announced a 1.2% increase to its price cap. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stamp duty changes next year are likely to keep a lid on UK house price growth and reinforce a North-South divide, a property website predicts. Read More
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is called to open higher on Friday, while the pound and euro struggled ahead of a series key purchasing managers' index readings. Read More
Gemfields Group Ltd - London-headquartered gemstones miner and marketer - Generates emerald revenue of USD16.1 million at the second auction in 2024 that took place between November 4 and 21. For May 13 to 30, it recorded revenue of USD35.0 million. In an auction in May and June 2023, revenue was USD43.7 million. At the November 2024 auction, the average price of USD113.96 per carat. Read More
(Alliance News) - UK retail sales growth fell short of expectations last month, numbers on Friday showed, as non-food sales were hurt by pre-budget uncertainty. Read More
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is called to open higher on Friday, ahead of a UK retail sales reading a series of purchasing managers' index data from the continent, which could be key for the direction of the under pressure euro. Read More
(Alliance News) - Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to strike the UK with a new ballistic missile after using the weapon to hit a target in Ukraine. Read More
(Alliance News) - Consumer confidence improved in November amid signs shoppers are ready to put political upheaval behind them to spend again on Black Friday and Christmas. Read More
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Polarean Imaging PLC - medical imaging technology developer - Receives 510k clearance from the US Food & Drug Administration for its specialised MRI chest coil to now include GE Healthcare Technologies Inc's 3 Tesla, or 3T, MRI scanners, for the visualisation of Xenon-129 nuclei. The company now supports Xenon MRI scanning from all three major scanner vendors, including GE Healthcare, Koninklijke Philips NV and Siemens Healthineers AG. Read More