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London midday: Eyes on Merkozy meeting as Footsie falls
Monday 09 Jan 2012
London's blue chip index was trading slightly lower by midday, following a moderate rise early on, with all eyes on the meeting between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Europe midday: Stocks down slightly ahead of Merkozy press conference
Monday 09 Jan 2012
-Sarkozy and Merkel press conference slated to start at 12:30PM.
Broker snap: ARM's expensive but in a good position, says finnCap
Monday 09 Jan 2012
While finnCap has admitted that ARM Holdings is "at the heart of the mobile revolution", the broker has maintained its hold rating on the chip designer on valuations grounds.
Broker snap: Temporary power market remains compelling, says Investec
Monday 09 Jan 2012
Investec has kept its positive stance on the temporary power rental market and says that the investment case remains "compelling".
Monday broker round-up
Monday 09 Jan 2012
Rentokil: Credit Suisse upgrades from neutral to outperform, target upped from 67p to 85p.
UK leaves door open to further IMF boost
Monday 09 Jan 2012
David Cameron has left open the door to Britain giving billions of pounds of new support to the International Monetary Fund –and indirectly to ailing members of the Eurozone- in a move likely to infuriate eurosceptic MPs in his own Conservative party, the Financial Times reports in this morning´s edition.
UK housing market ended 2011 on a subdued note, RICS says
Monday 09 Jan 2012
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors housing market survey for the month of December shows that the UK housing market ended last year on a relatively subdued note. Nonetheless, there are reasons to expect an improvement, according to economists at Barclays Capital.
DS Smith to profit from stake in Ukraine firm
Monday 09 Jan 2012
DS Smith, the recycled packaging company, is about to receive a tidy sum as a result of its 49.6% interest in Rubezhansk, the leading paper and packaging business in the Ukraine.
Merkel and Sarkozy iron out strategy for EU summit
Monday 09 Jan 2012
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be meeting today in Berlin at 10:00 am London time and will hold a joint press conference at around 12:30 pm. They are expected to discuss steps to boost growth in the European Union (EU) countries and could examine proposals for the implementation of the financial transaction tax despite open opposition by the
London open: Footsie up early on, pharmas fall
Monday 09 Jan 2012
London's FTSE 100 opened slightly higher on Monday morning helped by banking titans Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC. Oil stocks Essar Energy, Tullow Oil and Royal Dutch Shell were tracking oil prices higher.
Monday newspaper round-up: Waste, Iran, Scotland
Monday 09 Jan 2012
More than £31bn of taxpayers’ money has been wasted across government departments in the past two years, according to an audit by The Times. The scale of the inefficiency is more than twice the extra £15bn of cuts for 2015 onwards announced by George Osborne, the Chancellor, in November and more than a third of the £81bn cuts needed in this Parliament. An analysis of more than 70 reports from the
Earnings at the lower end of forecasts, says AstraZeneca
Monday 09 Jan 2012
Biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has said that full-year earnings are now expected to come in at the lower end of previous guidance.
Cairn to pay 160p per share
Monday 09 Jan 2012
Cairn Energy has announced the details of its long-awaited return of around $3.5bn in cash to shareholders. The company plans to return 160p for each ordinary share held by way of a 'B' share scheme which will give UK tax-payers the chance to receive cash in the form of income or capital, or a blend of both.
London pre-open: Slightly lower start for FTSE
Monday 09 Jan 2012
London is set to open little changed, with optimism held in check by a statement from James Bullard, President of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis, which appears to put the kibosh on a new round of bond purchases by the US Federal Reserve in the immediate future.
Monday newspaper round-up: Waste, Iran, Scotland
Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
More than £31bn of taxpayers’ money has been wasted across government departments in the past two years, according to an audit by The Times. The scale of the inefficiency is more than twice the extra £15bn of cuts for 2015 onwards announced by George Osborne, the Chancellor, in November and more than a third of the £81bn cuts needed in this Parliament. An analysis of more than 70 reports from the
Commodities: Strong dollar pressures crude
Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
Crude oil futures fell on Friday, despite an upbeat US jobs report, as the stronger dollar and weak equities pressured demand.
Sunday share tip round-up: Eros, Senior, India, Vodafone
Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
When publicity seekers like Lady Gaga say they want to be in a Bollywood film, you know that the Indian movie industry is now of global importance. There is plenty of opportunity for Bollywood film producer and distributor Eros International. The shares were first tipped in The Sunday Telegraph at the start of October – and the shares soared to 270p a couple of weeks later as the company hosted
SABMiller director buys two rounds in less than a fortnight
Wednesday 04 Jan 2012
A round-up of the biggest director buys today so far.
Domino's Pizza sees 3.6% LFL sales growth
Tuesday 03 Jan 2012
Pizza delivery firm Domino's Pizza saw a slow-down in year-on-year like-for-like sales growth in the final quarter of 2012, but still achieved growth above some analysts' forecasts.
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Greece, Iran, HBOS, SNB
Tuesday 03 Jan 2012
Around one million Britons have taken out a payday loan to pay their mortgage or rent over the last 12 months, a survey reveals. It highlights the financial squeeze facing workers who are being pushed over the edge by soaring household bills, rising taxes and paltry pay rises, or pay freezes. The report, from the homeless charity Shelter, said a further six million people are being plunged into
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