(Alliance News) - Hutchmed China Ltd on Wednesday announced topline results of a phase 3 trial of its selective small molecule inhibitor sovleplenib, in a form of anaemia. Read More
(Alliance News) - BP PLC on Wednesday announced it launched a biofuel feedstock joint venture with Corteva Inc, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based pure-play agriculture company. Read More
(Alliance News) - Ireland's unemployment rate held steady in December, remaining at 5.0% for a second consecutive month, as joblessness rose slightly on the year, official data showed on Wednesday. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Wednesday. Read More
Springfield Properties PLC - Morayshire, Scotland-based housebuilder - Chief Executive Officer Innes Smith sells 100,000 shares at 132.5 pence, worth GBP132,500, on Tuesday. Smith and his family retain 896,644 shares, a 0.8% stake. Read More
Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd - Hong Kong-based holding company with interests in retail, property, hotels and motor dealerships - Chief Executive Officer Lincoln Pan buys 7,100 shares at USD71.82, worth USD509,922, in Singapore on Tuesday. Pan has been buying Jardine shares since taking over as CEO last month, buying 44,400 shares, worth about USD3 million in December. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-caps on Wednesday. Read More
(Alliance News) - David Lammy will hold talks with US Vice President JD Vance amid European alarm over Donald Trump's threats to seize Greenland. Read More
Henry Boot PLC - Sheffield, England-based construction and property development firm - Hallam Land, its land promotion and planning business, completes the sale of a freehold site in Swindon to Kent, England-headquartered housebuilder Vistry Group PLC. Hallam completed the sale on December 23, delivering a 9.2% per year ungeared internal rate of return and exceeding its 2025 annual sales target, with "a record 3,957 plot sales during the year". The Swindon site comes with planning permission for 366 residential units. Hallam bought the site in January 2024, agreeing to sell 760 plots to Vistry. The first phase of 393 plots was completed that month, followed by the second phase of 367 plots in December. Henry Boot says Hallam retains 304 plots for future sale. Read More
KRM22 PLC - London-based investor in technology and software companies, focused on risk management for capital markets - Hires Justin Llewellyn-Jones as a non-executive director, starting on Wednesday. Llewellyn-Jones is chief executive officer of Trading Technologies International Inc. Prior to TT, he worked for market data provider ION Group and for Fidessa PLC, now part of ION, among other roles. Read More
(Alliance News) - UK construction firms experienced another sharp drop in activity in December, but the rate of decline eased, according to survey results published by S&P Global on Wednesday. Read More
Netcall PLC - Bedford, England-based enterprise software for automation and customer engagement - Wins a multi-year cloud computing contract worth GBP3.0 million for its Liberty platform. Netcall doesn't name the customer but says it is "an S&P 500 global financial services firm" that initially adopted the Liberty platform in the first half of Netcall's financial year 2025, which ended on June 30. The customer's annual subscription is now GBP1.0 million. Netcall says the application is being delivered on its Liberty Create platform and will "automate case workflows from intake to resolution" for the customer. Read More
(Alliance News) - Topps Tiles PLC on Wednesday said its revenue growth outperformed the market in the first quarter of the 2026 financial year. 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