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  • Commodities: Crude rises on concerns over Middle East

    Thursday 04 Oct 2012

    Crude oil futures rose above 91 dollars on Thursday, boosted by concerns over supply from the Middle East where tensions between Syria and Turkey have been growing.

  • Friday preview: US jobs, Wood Group

    Thursday 04 Oct 2012

    Friday is a slow day for scheduled corporate news so focus will naturally veer across the Atlantic to the September US non-farm payrolls release at 13:30.

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: FirstGroup, Spain, RBS

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    FirstGroup is considering legal action against the Department for Transport after it pulled the controversial West Coast rail bid in a humiliating about-turn, plunging the entire industry into chaos. The bus and rail operator, which had been awarded the contract after bidding £13.3bn to run the London-to-Scotland services until 2028, saw its shares dive by more than a fifth, falling 50.6 to

  • Crowd-sourcing firm Blur to list on AIM

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    All the people - so many people - will have a chance to buy shares in Blur Group (not the Mockney rock band) when the business services exchange floats on AIM on Friday, October 5th.

  • FX round-up: Upbeat US data fuels dollar gains

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    The dollar rallied against the euro and the yen on Wednesday after two reports on the US economy came in better than expected.

  • Broker snap: UBS downgrades Schroders to 'sell'

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    UBS has cut its recommendation for asset manager Schroders from 'neutral' to 'sell', saying that expectations are too high.

  • Wednesday broker round-up

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    AG Barr, AstraZeneca, BSkyB, Britvic, BTG, Centrica, DMGT, Dunelm, easyJet, Fidessa, FirstGroup, Gemfields, ITV, Marston's, Morgan Crucible, Rightmove, Sainsbury's, Schroders, Severn Trent, S&N, Sportingbet, Tesco, Virgin Media, WH Smith, Wolseley

  • Direct Line flotation on track

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    Citing “sources close to the company” Reuters has reported that order books on the flotation of Royal Bank of Scotland’s insurance business Direct Line have been covered three days into the company’s nine day investor roadshow.

  • London open: Sentiment dampened by Spain, Chinese data

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    Rajoy denies Spanish bailout request; Chinese data disappoints; Tesco and Sainsbury's fall after updates; FirstGroup sinks after West Coast failure.

  • Xstrata hikes copper estimates at Argentinian project

    Wednesday 03 Oct 2012

    Xstrata has raised its copper mineral resource estimate at the major long-life development El Pachón project in San Juan Province, Argentina.

  • Tesco sacrifices margin to return to LFL growth -UPDATE

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Supermarket colossus Tesco saw a return to like-for-like (LFL) sales growth in the second quarter, although it has had to sacrifice margin to do so.

  • Thursday preview: BoE meeting, Halfords

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    At noon on Thursday, the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is set to reveal whether it has made any alterations to its key interest rate and asset purchase programme (also known as quantitative easing, or QE).

  • Broker snap: Davy downgrades Wolseley

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Irish broker Davy has downgraded its recommendation for Wolseley from ‘outperform’ to ‘neutral’ following the plumbers' merchant full year results.

  • London close: Spanish concerns dampen stocks

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Moody's to reveal Spanish review this month; banks provide a drag on the Footsie; Bumi and Bank of Georgia are big movers on FTSE 250.

  • London midday: Stocks swing into the blue

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Stocks shrug off Spanish bailout concerns; RBA cuts rates; Babcock and Wolseley rise strongly after updates.

  • Broker snap: Babcock is in a good position, say analysts

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    The majority of brokerages hailed engineering group Babcock International's first-half trading update as 'in line' on Tuesday, maintaing their upbeat views on the stock.

  • Broker snap: Downgrades likely for AstraZeneca, says Credit Suisse

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Credit Suisse has reduced its forecasts for pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca after the firm announced on Monday that it had suspended its share repurchase programme with immediate effect.

  • Sharp fall in new orders drags UK construction PMI lower -UPDATE

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    -Output declines during August amid marked fall in new work

  • Commodities: Crude skids to two-month low

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Crude oil futures ended the day at their lowest level since August on Wednesday as investors took fright at a weaker than expected consumer sentiment report in China.

  • London open: Spanish bailout rumours weigh on stocks

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Following a strong surge the day before, London's FTSE 100 slipped in early trading on Tuesday with concerns about a Spanish bailout weighing on sentiment early on.

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