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  • Friday preview: WPP, Rentokil

    Thursday 21 Aug 2008

    Advertising giant WPP is currently embroiled in a takeover battle for Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), so will want to put its best foot forward when it publishes its interims this week.

  • London close: Footsie recovers early losses

    Thursday 21 Aug 2008

    Footsie briefly moved into the blue during the afternoon session, but fell back again to close little changed as oil stocks rallied to offset another tough day for the financial sector.

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Market overview: Miners offset financial gloom
Thursday 21 Aug 2008

1630: Footsie finished flat after see-sawing between red and blue for much of the day as buoyant miners struggled against downbeat financial stocks.

Tullow Oil continued winning back some of the losses it has sustained recently, in line with the higher oil price. Fellow explorer and producer Cairn Energy and oils services company John Wood Group were not far behind.

Kazakh miner Kazakhmys led the mining sector higher after its compatriot ENRC posted a strong set of half-year figures and said it expected higher commodity prices to hold despite the macroeconomic uncertainties.

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Small Cap Focus: Xaar's Chinese setback

Thursday 21 Aug 2008

Xaar has experienced trading problems in China but it is still generating profits and cash.

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  • London close: Footsie recovers early losses

    Thursday 21 Aug 2008

    Footsie briefly moved into the blue during the afternoon session, but fell back again to close little changed as oil stocks rallied to offset another tough day for the financial sector.

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  • Friday preview: WPP, Rentokil

    Thursday 21 Aug 2008

    Advertising giant WPP is currently embroiled in a takeover battle for Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), so will want to put its best foot forward when it publishes its interims this week.

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Four years, some twenty billion pounds, several ‘Free Tibet’ protestors, and a visually modified opening ceremony later, the games finally got underway at the Beijing Olympics 2008.

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