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  • Broker snap: Charles Stanley hails Hamworthy's higher orders

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Charles Stanley has hiked its target price for Hamworthy by 34% to 608p after a boost in its order intake has highlighted the recovery in the market.

  • Premium broker snap: Credit Suisse slashes estimates at Home Retail

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Credit Suisse has slashed its forecasts at home products retailer Home Retail Group following the company’s first quarter trading update released on 9 June.

  • Europe mid-morning: Greece concerns continue, Italian banks plummet

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Worries over the debt situation in Greece continued to dampen the markets on Monday morning, following a meeting over the past couple of days with euro-zone ministers. However, the biggest movers of the day so far have been in Italy, after Moody’s put its ratings on government bonds on review for a possible downgrade.

  • Vatukoula swings to a loss on infrastructure development costs

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Vatukoula Gold Mines reported a decrease in third quarter gold production as the Fijian miner focused on developing underground infrastructure to sustain long-term production.

  • Supergroup looking less than super

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    The FTSE-250 clothes retailer Supergroup has issued a trading update following a 35% drop in its share price since the beginning of the year.

  • House prices to rise in 2011, Rightmove says

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Property website Rightmove expects average house prices to edge up slightly in 2011 as a booming London market cements the north/south divide.

  • London open: Stocks fall back again

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    The top share index has started the week on the decline as the Greek debt crisis continues to rumble on. Eurozone ministers have postponed their decision on a €12bn (£10bn) loan to the indebted Mediterranean nation until it passes more austerity measures. Miners and financial stocks are dragging the FTSE 100 lower.

  • UBM gobbles up food show organiser

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    UBM has acquired a 70% stake in the Catersource catering conference and exhibition and its sister show Event Solutions.

  • Rexam to sell bottle top business

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Packaging giant Rexam has agreed to sell its closures business for $360m (£222m) as it seeks to pay back its debts.

  • London pre-open: Back into reverse

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    London's leading shares are set to start the week on a dull note with City traders predicting the Footsie will tumble back below the 5,700 mark, down by around 50 points. Temporary power and temperature control provider Aggreko saw an acceleration in the rate of underlying growth in the second quarter.

  • Rolls-Royce to power longer-range Airbus craft

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Power systems colossus Rolls-Royce has bagged the contract to provide engines for an enhanced version of the Airbus A350-1000 aircraft.

  • JD Sports Fashion makes Spanish acquisition

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Trendy sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion has gained a foothold in Spain with the acquisition of the businesses of Sprinter, a sports chain operating in the south of the country.

  • Commodities: Oil sinks to 4-month low

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Crude oil prices fell to a four-month low on Friday on increasing concern that Greece's debt crisis and the sluggish US economy will reduce demand for oil.

  • FX round-up: Euro boosted by Greece hopes

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    Tentative hopes that European finance ministers will agree on a financial aid package for Greece at weekend meetings sent the euro higher against the dollar on Friday.

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Greece, Britons' finances, C&W Worldwide, Music Festivals

    Monday 20 Jun 2011

    George Osborne arrives in Luxembourg on Monday with a battle on his hands to keep Britain out of a second EU bailout of Greece after crisis talks between eurozone finance ministers went on late into Sunday night. The Chancellor must convince his European counterparts that additional funding for Greece must be found from bi-lateral national loans without drawing on the EU-wide Financial

  • Sunday tips round-up: Cape, Victoria Oil&Gas, Xstrata

    Saturday 18 Jun 2011

    In the past eight years, earnings per share at energy services firm Cape have increased by more than 500%, debt has been slashed and dividends resumed. As well, those investors who listened to advice, in March 2009, to invest in its shares, have made a gain of 739%. Do the shares of Cape still represent a good investment? For the Questor team, at the Sunday Telegraph, the answer is yes. They

  • IMF trims US growth forecasts

    Saturday 18 Jun 2011

    In an update today to April´s World Economic Outlook (WEO), released in Sao Paolo, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has trimmed its forecast for world GDP growth this year, by one tenth of a percentage point to 4.3%. The estimate for 2012 remains unchanged at 4.5%.

  • Ryanair's McNamara criticises DAA's Collier

    Saturday 18 Jun 2011

    Budget airline Ryanair criticised Dublin Airport Authority's president Declan Collier for holding a quango role as the president of the Airport Council International.

  • US close: RIM falls over the edge

    Friday 17 Jun 2011

    Though US stocks ended the week on a mixed note it was, at least, a week in which the Dow Jones and S&P 500 moved higher, albeit tentatively.

  • US midday: Markets higher amid mixed economic data

    Friday 17 Jun 2011

    Positive news from Europe helped US markets’ gains on Friday, but some unnerving economic data is likely to sour sentiment a bit.

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