LONDON MARKET OPEN: FTSE 100 falls as Shell, AB Foods and Tesco sink
8th Jan 2026 09:04
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Thursday as updates from Associated British Foods, Tesco and Shell disappointed investors. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Thursday as updates from Associated British Foods, Tesco and Shell disappointed investors. Read More
(Alliance News) - Associated British Foods PLC on Thursday issued a profit warning amid a challenging start to the financial year at Primark and mixed trading in its food business. Read More
(Alliance News) - Shell PLC on Thursday said it expects to report stable or increasing production figures for the fourth quarter of 2025. Read More
(Alliance News) - The UK Competition & Markets Authority on Thursday said it has moved its review of the acquisition of Hovis Group Ltd by Associated British Foods PLC to an in-depth phase 2 investigation at the request of the two bread makers. Read More
(Alliance News) - Tesco PLC on Thursday said it expects to deliver profit at the upper end of previous guidance although quarterly sales fell short of expectations weighed by a surprise drop in sales at Booker. Read More
(Alliance News) - Tesco reports higher sales for the Christmas period and raises its profit guidance, while M&S sees Fashion, Home & Beauty sales fall but Food sales rise and AB Foods reports a challenging start to the financial year for Primark. Read More
Schroder European Real Estate Investment Trust PLC - London and Johannesburg-listed property investor - Says its property portfolio is independently valued at EUR194.0 million as at December 31, 2025, the same value as at September 30, 2025. But the valuation is fractionally down from EUR194.6 million at December 31, 2024. Notes the Berlin DIY asset delivered a third consecutive quarter of valuation growth, while valuations for the office assets remain stable. The industrial portfolio shows a more varied performance, it says. Indicates that the valuation of the mixed-use data centre in Apeldoorn falls after Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN NV terminated its lease. Read More
(Alliance News) - UK house prices unexpectedly fell in December, while annual growth slowed, numbers from Halifax showed on Thursday. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are set to open lower on Thursday, ahead of trading statements from Tesco and Marks & Spencer. Read More
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(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
Saga PLC - Kent, England-based provider of products and services for people over 50 - FTSE Russell announces that Saga will return to the FTSE 250 index on Monday, replacing Bakkavor Group PLC, a London-based manufacturer of fresh prepared food, which supplies to the UK and the US, which is leaving the FTSE 250 that day. Bakkavor is being bought by Greencore Group PLC, a Dublin-based manufacturer of convenience foods supplied to British and Irish retailers, in a deal valued at GBP1.2 billion. Saga is returning to the FTSE 250, having been part of it from September 2014 until it left the index in June 2019 after a fall in its share price. 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) - The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
(Alliance News) - TT Electronics PLC shareholder DBAY Advisors Ltd on Wednesday said it was pleased Cicor Technologies Ltd did not succeed in buying TT Electronics. Read More