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  • London pre-open: FTSE expected to open lower

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    City sources predict the FTSE 100 will open down 29 points from yesterday's close of 5,820, despite positive data from the US giving a boost to state-side stocks last night.

  • IAG traffic boosted by BA Olympic advertising

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    International Airlines Group (IAG) said September traffic figures had been boosted by heavy promotional activity by British Airways during and after the Olympic Games.

  • Tuesday tips round-up: Glencore, Xstrata, Electrocomponents...

    Tuesday 02 Oct 2012

    Lex in the Financial Times casts its eye over the long drawn-out Glencore/Xstrata saga and is not happy with Xstrata's behaviour.

  • Cash-positive Wolseley pays special divi

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Rumours of a special dividend from Wolseley have proved to be on the money, with the plumbers' merchant paying 40p on top of the full year divi of 60p.

  • Gemfields rises on resource update

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Shares in emerald miner Gemfields rose over nine per cent on Tuesday after the company announced a JORC compliant indicated mineral resource of 2.75m tonnes of emerald and beryl at 365 carats per tonne.

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: BoE, Xstrata, Spain

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    The Bank of England has rebuffed claims that its new Funding for Lending Scheme is failing after official figures revealed a contraction in the mortgage market and a higher cost of borrowing. The Bank said that it was “unrealistic” to expect an immediate boost to lending from the programme, which came into effect in August after being announced by Sir Mervyn King, the Governor, in June’s Mansion

  • London midday: Strong start to Q4; Footsie up one per cent

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Investors taking advantage of underpriced stocks, says analyst; Asian and UK data disappoints; Xstrata rises after agreeing terms with Glencore.

  • Broker snap: LSE will ‘Outperform’, says Credit Suisse

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Credit Suisse has put out an 'Outperform’ rating on the London Stock Exchange with a target price of 1030p, lowered from 1,050p. This still provides approximately 10 per cent upside on its current value of 936p a share.

  • BAE and EADS try to woo politicians

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    The bosses of BAE Systems and EADS have set out their case for the proposed merger of their firms in a joint letter to UK, French and German newspapers.

  • UK manufacturing weaker than expected in September

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    The UK manufacturing sector was weaker than expected in September, contracting for a fifth month in a row, according to new statistics.

  • Broker snap: Seymour Pierce downgrades Tesco on visibility issues

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Seymour Pierce has downgraded its rating for supermarket giant Tesco from 'hold' to 'reduce' ahead of the group's first-half figures this week, saying that visibility remains poor.

  • Monday broker round-up

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    Barclays, BATS, Capco, Charles Stanley, Electrocomponents, HSBC, JD Wetherspoon, Lloyds, Petropavlovsk, RBS, Sinclair, Spectris, Sportingbet, StanChart, Tesco, Weir

  • London open: Stocks shrug off disappointing Asian data

    Monday 01 Oct 2012

    UK stocks make strong gains early on; Japanese, Chinese figures disappoint; Xstrata rises after agreeing terms with Glencore.

  • Tuesday tips round-up: Electrocomponents, City of London Investment

    Friday 28 Sep 2012

    Electrical components distributor Electrocomponents saw its shares hammered on Friday after a disappointing trading statement, but it is still doing better than its rivals, Questor in The Telegraph notes.

  • FX round-up: Dollar firms on Spain woes

    Friday 28 Sep 2012

    The dollar carved out gains against major currencies on Friday on persistent uncertainty about Spain's bailout prospects while the nation's bank stress tests showed Spain's financial institutions are in need of more aid.

  • William Sinclair issues warning after soggy summer

    Friday 28 Sep 2012

    Gardening products supplier William Sinclair said its results will be even worse than previously warned, thanks to the UK's soggy summer.

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Greece, BoE, Colombia

    Friday 28 Sep 2012

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel must “come clean at long last” and admit that Greece will need help for another seven or eight years, the German opposition leader said over the weekend. “The Greeks must stand by their commitment, but we must give them time. We cannot tighten the screws any futher,” said Peer Steinbruck, the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor. He said the political and

  • London open: Cautious advance on big day for macro-data

    Friday 28 Sep 2012

    - G4S boss Buckles keeps his job after group completes probe into Olympics fiasco - Electrocomponents issues profits warning - Admiral in reverse as OFT refers car insurance market to Competition Commission

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Spain, US drought, Iberdrola

    Thursday 27 Sep 2012

    Spain has pushed through 40bn euros of fresh austerity measures in the teeth of recession, despite violent protests across the country and separatist crises in Catalonia and the Basque region that threaten to break the country apart. Premier Mariano Rajoy has frozen public pay in 2013 for the third year in a row. The agriculture ministry and culture expenses will be cut by 30 per cent and the

  • Mitchells & Butlers holds up well over summer

    Thursday 27 Sep 2012

    Pubs owner Mitchells and Butlers said like-for-like (LFL) sales increased three per cent the nine weeks to September 15th as the Olympic and Paralympic Games had little impact on overall sales.

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