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Tablet addiction to grow, says Imagination Technologies
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
StockwatchGo-go stocks often find the market turning against them when performance switches from 'sensational' to merely 'very good' and it seems that is the case with chip designer Imagination Technologies.
Tablet addiction to grow, says Imagination Technologies
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
StockwatchGo-go stocks often find the market turning against them when performance switches from 'sensational' to merely 'very good' and it seems that is the case with chip designer Imagination Technologies.
G20 has Europe in cross-hairs as it shifts focus to growth
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
A draft communiqué is circulating around the G20 summit meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, that reveals the group’s concern with the European debt crisis as it also emphasises the need for a global focus on efforts to create growth and jobs.
Spanish PM urges breaking bank-sovereign umbilical cord
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
At the Group of 20 (G20) summit being held in Los Cabos, Mexico, Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insisted on the need 'to break the link between risk in the banking sector and sovereign risk'.
Tuesday broker round-up
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
APR, BHP, Bumi, Computacenter, Dixons, Filtrona, Gem, Glencore, Home Retail, ITV, Legal & General, Petropavlovsk, Rio, Shell, Sage, Segro, StanChart, TalkTalk, UBM, Xstrata
Caffeine rush at Whitbread
Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
The Whitbread bandwagon rolls on with the Premier Inn and Costa Coffee owner reporting forecast-busting like-for-like (LFL) sales growth in its first quarter.
Inflation fall puts QE firmly on the agenda
Monday 18 Jun 2012
Inflation fell unexpectedly in May to back within the government's target level, raising expectations that the Bank of England would soon ramp up its quantitative easing programme.
Hammerson sells London offices
Monday 18 Jun 2012
Property firm Hammerson is set to off-load most of its London office space as it pushes forward with plans to focus solely on retail space.
FTSE 250 movers: CWW leaps on Vodafone takeover support
Monday 18 Jun 2012
Orbis, which owns around a fifth of Cable & Wireless Worldwide stock, said it would not try to block a takeover bid for the firm by Vodafone, boosting shares early on. Despite initially saying the offer of 38p a share was too low, Orbis said it now believed the deal was inevitable.
London midday: Stocks edge higher despite euro uncertainty
Monday 18 Jun 2012
- Markets digest Greek elections - Spanish bond yields above seven per cent - Barroso expects coalition to be formed 'swiftly'
Tuesday newspaper round-up: IMF, Sterling zone, Microsoft
Saturday 16 Jun 2012
The UK has pledged a further 15bn dollars to the IMF, after Christine Lagarde revealed that member states had promised a total of 456bn dollars for its new crisis fund. China will contribute 43bn dollars, state news agency Xinhua confirmed on Tuesday morning. "With today's announcements by an additional 12 countries, a total of 37 IMF member countries (...) have joined this collective effort,
Greece’s rating unaffected by election, says S and P
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Standard & Poor’s (S and P) has said that the sovereign credit rating and outlook on Greece (CCC/stable) are not affected by the outcome of the elections.
Market overview: The euro may be our currency, but it´s your problem
Friday 15 Jun 2012
1210: Commenting on the Greek elections this past weekend economists at Morgan Stanley are of the opinion that, “the ramification of an exit, for the Eurozone as a whole, would be way more far-reaching than the market anticipates. The words of former US Treasury Secretary John Connally, who about 40 years ago famously told European finance ministers in Rome that the dollar is “our currency, but
FTSE 250 movers: Lamprell rises on news of new Chairman
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Lamprell was a high riser after it moved quickly to replace Jonathan Silver, who announced earlier this month his intention to give up the Chairman role to become Deputy Chairman. The new guv'nor is industry veteran John Kennedy who, until US conglomerate General Electric took it over, was Chairman of Wellstream Holdings.
Investors cheer Home Retail Group
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Shares in Home Retail Group leapt on Tuesday after Argos sales held up, delighting investors who expected them to be hit by bad weather.
Premier Foods sells vinegar and pickles to Japanese
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Struggling Premier Foods said it was selling its vinegar and soured pickles business for 41m pounds.
Poor trade data point to longer recession
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Economists said poor UK trade and construction figures out on Friday would dampen any positive mood left over after the government unveiled plans to boost business lending.
Melrose chasing German meter firm
Friday 15 Jun 2012
Engineering buy-out firm Melrose has confirmed speculation that it is in discussions to buy German group Elster.
London midday: More QE could be on the way
Friday 15 Jun 2012
- BarCap says Bank of England will turn on the QE tap again - Banks celebrate emergency assistance facility - Premier Foods getting out of a pickle
Market overview: Barclays changes BoE policy forecast
Friday 15 Jun 2012
1112: Economists at Barclays have just announced a change in their interest rate forecast for the Bank of England. "We are changing our UK monetary policy forecast, and now expect the MPC to approve a further 50bn pounds of quantitative easing (QE) at the July meeting. We had previously forecast no further QE. We expect the asset purchases again to be exclusively of gilts. The primary reason for
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