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  • Broker snap: Credit Suisse raises its price target on Pearson

    Saturday 31 Dec 2011

    In a research note issued this morning analysts at Credit Suisse have raised their price target on Pearson by 9%, to 1,175p, as the publisher remains their, “preferred long-term Professional Publisher for quality.”

  • Friday Newspaper Round Up: Italian debt and failed share tips

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Good morning on the last trading day of the year.

  • Morrisons' LFL sales growth slows, but remains positive

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Like-for-like (LFL) sales growth continued at supermarket chain over the final six weeks of 2011, albeit at a slower rate than in the third quarter.

  • Asia: Stocks lower on Eurozone apprehension

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Japan: Nikkei 225 -25 at 8,399

  • London midday: Stocks becalmed

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Reaction to the results of Italy's bond auction has been muted and London's leading shares continue to drift aimlessly. Italy sold €2.5bn worth of benchmark 10-year bonds at an interest rate of 6.98%, below the psychologically important 7% level, but hardly a level to prompt dancing in the streets.

  • US close: 2011 - the year of the Big Mac and Big Blue

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Quick question for those of you setting end-of-year quizzes: which stock performed better in 2011: Apple or International Business Machines? Read on to find out ...

  • Afren end-year production ahead

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    African oil producer Afren said end-year production at its Ebok, Okoro and Côte d'Ivoire operations has topped previous guidance.

  • US Close: The bulls reign in New York

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    Dow Jones: +1.47% S & P 500: +1.55% NASDAQ: +1.67%

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: China beats New York, Italy's day of destiny

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    The Financial Times (FT) leads with the news that China is now the leading arena for stock market flotations. The FT reports $73bn was raised through public listings in China in 2011, almost double the amount raised in New York.

  • London open: Waiting on Italy

    Thursday 29 Dec 2011

    It is predictably quiet in London with those investors who are not nursing Christmas hangovers holding fire until the result of the Italian bond auction is known.

  • Reputational repairs

    Monday 26 Dec 2011

    Continuing our series where Sharecast journalists cheerfully volunteer to prove their inability to predict the future, we feature two stocks that Ben Chiou thinks will have divergent fortunes in 2012.

  • IAG set to fly, but Omega is no world beta

    Sunday 25 Dec 2011

    Continuing our series where Sharecast journalists cheerfully prove their inability to predict the future, we feature two stocks that Natasha Roberts thinks we should keep an eye on in 2012.

  • High spirits and a dog of a stock

    Sunday 25 Dec 2011

    Towards the end of the year it is traditional for journalists to demonstrate why they chiefly report on events that have happened, rather than try to predict what will happen in the future, and the Sharecast hacks are no different. In the final week of the year, the Sharecast journalists will each be picking two stocks to keep an eye on in 2012: one projected winner and one projected loser.

  • Footsie clunkers of 2011

    Sunday 25 Dec 2011

    Having had a quick shufti at the best performing FTSE 100 stocks of 2011, it is time to have a look at the clunkers.

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: S&P, India, North Sea, Strikes

    Friday 23 Dec 2011

    In this weekend´s edition of the Financial Times John Authers argues that investors should not buy into the theme that “stocks are cheap”. In his opinion, if they seem to be so it is only because,” traders are sensibly discounting a likely fall in profits.”He does admit, however, that for countries such as the United States recession is more a risk (“although recent data are more promising”)

  • Antrim gives Premier a North Sea Christmas present

    Friday 23 Dec 2011

    Antrim Energy, the Canadian oil company, says it has drilled a successful sidetrack well to assess the Erne discovery in the UK section of the North Sea.

  • US midday: Stocks keep advancing a bit more, S&P 500 at resistance

    Friday 23 Dec 2011

    DJI: 0.72% to 12,257

  • London Close: Footsie enjoys pre-Christmas surge

    Friday 23 Dec 2011

    Footsie has battled its way above 5500, and there are just a handful of the top-share index's constituents that are not participating in the advance, including banking titans Lloyds, Standard Chartered, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland.

  • The European debt crisis continues to pose risks to triple A ratings

    Thursday 22 Dec 2011

    While investors continue to fearfully await Standard and Poor’s verdict on France’s triple A rating, the agencies are still busy making adjustments to their opinions on several other European countries, as they attempt to gauge the threat posed by the sovereign debt crisis.

  • Bonds: Yields rising in Euro danger countries

    Thursday 22 Dec 2011

    International bond markets appeared to be avoiding risk through Thursday, despite positive data from the US, as both Italian and Spanish bond yields rose.

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