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  • Hansard Global posts strong performance

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Hansard Global’s ‘buy’ rating was reiterated after the group revealed strong growth during the last half of 2012.

  • FTSE 100 movers: Banks rise as miners head lower

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Banks were putting in a solid performance on Monday, led by the likes of Aberdeen Asset Management and Barclays, and offsetting declines in the mining sector.

  • Broker snap: Investec downgrades Tate & Lyle ahead of Q3 results

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Investec has cut its rating for sweeteners and food products group Tate & Lyle from 'buy' to 'hold' after reducing its forecasts ahead of the group's third-quarter results, saying it's time to 'pause for a breather' after a decent run.

  • London open: Markets 'pause for breath' after recent gains

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    The FTSE 100 started Monday's session broadly unchanged as confidence about China provided some support, helping the FTSE 100 hold on to gains made in recent weeks.

  • FTSE 250 movers: Home Retail Group suffers following downgrade

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Home Retail Group fell after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock from overweight to equal-weight, with a target price of 140p.

  • Anite acquires Finnish software channel

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Anite, which provides software solutions to the international wireless and leisure travel industries, has acquired the Propsim channel emulation product set of Elektrobit Corp., of Finland.

  • Monday newspaper round-up: easyJet, Bumi, LIBOR...

    Monday 28 Jan 2013

    Budget airline EasyJet will confirm to the stock exchange this morning that City grandee Sir Michael Rake is quitting as the firm’s chairman this summer after three years of crossfire with major shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. However, it is understood that the EasyJet board will suggest the decision is unrelated to the chronic sniping but due to Rake being aware of looming corporate

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Carney, BP

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    Barclays is planning a swoop on the financial markets to raise billions of pounds of new capital ahead of a showdown with the Bank of England. Sources close to the bank say it could launch the move within weeks to kill off questions about its financial strength. All Britain’s banks are on edge as they await the findings of the inquiry into their capital positions ordered by Sir Mervyn King’s new

  • Sector movers: Miners drop, but Polymetal bucks the trend

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    Strong gains for FTSE 100 gold producer Polymetal weren't enough to lift the mining sectors into positive territory on Friday afternoon, as the majority of resource stocks bore the brunt of a fall in risk appetite.

  • Microsoft shares fall on profits drop

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    Microsoft shares dipped Friday after the software giant reported a fall in profits in quarterly earnings.

  • London midday: Markets flat despite disappointing GDP figures

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    The FTSE 100 was broadly unchanged by Friday lunchtime, shrugging off a disappointing reading of UK gross domestic product (GDP) growth, as the index was able to hold on to four-and-a-half-year highs.

  • Flexibility is key, Carney says -UPDATE

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    -Adds broker comment

  • easyJet Chairman to step down this summer

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    Sir Mike Rake, the Chairman of budget airline easyJet, is to step down from the board this summer, the company said on Monday morning.

  • Anglo American output dampened by strikes in Q4

    Friday 25 Jan 2013

    Strikes held back production of platinum and iron ore at Anglo American in the fourth quarter of 2012, though most other commodity classes delivered 'solid' increases in output.

  • London close: Footsie jumps one per cent as economic data impresses

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    Better-than-expected economic data lifted the FTSE 100 over one per cent higher on Thursday afternoon, as markets shrugged off disappointing results from the world’s largest technology company, Apple.

  • FX round-up: Dollar climbs against the Japanese yen

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    The dollar rose on Thursday, boosted by better-than-expected jobs data, and gaining in particular against the Japanese yen, which suffered after a senior government official was reported as saying a decline to 100 yen a dollar would not be a problem.

  • Friday tips round-up: ARM, Apple, LSE

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    Disappointing results from Apple had little effect on UK semi-conductor makers — ARM, the UK’s biggest such, actually saw its shares rise. The team at Espirito Santo believes there is little direct read-across from Apple because the rest of the smartphone and tablet market continues to perform so well. The fact that supply constraints meant Apple could not meet demand hardly seems like bad news

  • Polymetal completes acquisition of Olcha gold-silver deposit

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    Polymetal International has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Olymp, a Russian legal entity holding the mining and exploration licence for the Olcha gold-silver deposit.

  • London midday: Markets boosted by economic data from Europe and China

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    London's benchmark index was registering decent gains by Thursday lunchtime as earlier concerns about disappointing earnings from Apple were outweighed by better-than-expected economy data from Europe and China.

  • Broker tips: easyJet, Chemring, Darty

    Thursday 24 Jan 2013

    Credit Suisse has hiked its target price for easyJet from 884p to 1,000p after raising its full-year profit forecasts following the budget airline operator's first-quarter results.

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