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• After the Easter eggs, the City is ready for a feast at Tesco

  - 2004-04-18

  Easter is over, the kids are back in school and so the City gets back to the grindstone as the corporate newsflow shifts up through the gears. In the US, a variety of household names and market heavyweights will update investors in the first-quarter earnings season. These...

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• Market Report: Tesco puts skids under Sainsbury

  - 1999-02-20

  J SAINSBURY, the once high-flying supermarket chain, fell to its lowest for 18 months, with investors increasingly anxious about its trading performance as rival Tesco declares a price war. The shares dropped by 11.5p (after 20.25p) to 366.25p in heavy trading. Last autumn they hit 580p. Tesco...

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• Around the World's Markets: London

  - 1999-02-20

  BLUE CHIPS spent most of the day in the red, although Footsie closed above its worst, down 43.7 points at 6,031.2. Supporting shares made modest headway. Abbey National unsettled with disappointing figures and a 66 per cent rise in provisions. The shares were once down 108p; they closed...

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• Daily Mail, London, Banking Report.

  - 1998-10-28

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 28--DIRECTORS OF ABBEY NATIONAL AND LLOYDS TSB should hang their heads in shame over a report on sales of pensions, endowments and other life policies. The Personal Investment Authority exposes the scandal surrounding sales of personal...

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• No safe haven in drugs and retailing as pound slides

  - 1997-07-30

  Sterling's continued slide pulled the market in both directions yesterday. Engineering and manufacturing stocks breathed a huge sigh of relief that the tourniquet being applied by the currency to their export business was easing, but the "safe haven" shares, notably in drugs and retailing, where investors had previously sought...

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