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- FTSE Falls, Dubai Jitters Weigh
- By Simon FalushLONDON (Reuters UK) - The top share index fell for a second session on Friday, as banks were pressured by persisting anxiety over Dubai's debt standstill while miners and energy stocks were weighed by falling commodity prices.By 9:26 a.m. the FTSE 100 was down 0.3 percent or...
- News items 2009-11-27
- FTSE Set to Sink Over Econ Worries
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The FTSE 100 is seen opening 26-29 points lower on Tuesday retreating after sharp gains the previous session, with investors uncertain about prospects for economic recovery.The blue-chip index is seen by financial bookmakers falling around 0.6 percent after it gained 1.2 percent on Monday to...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Banks Help FTSE Gain 0.2 Percent
- By Jon HopkinsLONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's leading share index was up 0.2 percent approaching midday on Friday with a rally by banks offsetting weakness in oil majors in thin trade as investors await the key U.S. October jobs report.At 11:36 a.m., the FTSE 100 was 10.63 points higher...
- News items 2009-11-06
- FTSE Hits One-month Closing Low
- By Tricia WrightLONDON (Reuters UK) - The top share index fell to its lowest closing level in a month on Tuesday, led down by banks after shake-ups at Royal Bank of Scotland RBS and Lloyds LLOY and poor results from Swiss peer UBS UBSN.The FTSE 100 index closed 67.29...
- News items 2009-11-03
- FTSE Closes Lower
- By Harpreet BhalLONDON (Reuters UK) - The leading share index ended 0.6 percent lower on Tuesday, with sentiment dampened by data showing the United States economy grew at a slower pace than previously thought, pressuring banks and commodity stocks.The FTSE index ended 31.54 points lower at 5,323.96, reversing earlier...
- News items 2009-11-24
- FTSE Ends Lower For 4th Day
- By Tricia WrightLONDON (Reuters UK) - The top share index ended in negative territory for a fourth consecutive session on Friday as weakness in commodity stocks and banks outweighed gains from defensive pharmaceuticals.The FTSE 100 ended down 16.29 points, or 0.3 percent, at 5,251.41 points, the lowest close since...
- News items 2009-11-20
- FTSE to Open Lower on Wall St. Weakness
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The FTSE 100 index is seen opening 10-12 points, or as much as 0.2 percent, lower on Friday, according to financial bookmakers, following overnight weakness on Wall Street and in Asia.The blue chip index closed up 9.75 points, or 0.2 percent, at 5,276.50 on Thursday,...
- News items 2009-11-12
Additional Resources
- ISAs for all seasons: with the FTSE 100 nudging 18-month highs and investor confidence slowly returning, sales of ISAs look set to recover
- The so-called ISA season, where financial advisers, discount brokers and fund managers shift bucketloads of investment funds in the run-up to the annual 6 April deadline, has been a washout for the last couple of years. Plunging stock markets saw to that. A massive 11.7 billion [pounds sterling] ISAs were...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- The Corporate-Fund Manager Interface: Objectives, Information and Valuation
- Fund managers are the primary investment decision-makers in the stock market, and corporate executives are their primary sources of information. Meetings between the two are therefore central to stock market investment decisions but are surprisingly under-researched. There is little in the academic literature concerning their aims, content and outcomes. This...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- FTSE hits a ten-month high as UK and US investors pile back in
- The FTSE rose to a ten-month high yesterday, closing up 3 per cent on the week, as investors on both sides of the Atlantic piled back into equities with a new-found confidence. The FTSE 100 closed 41.03 points higher at 4,731.56, up by 2.67 per cent on the week, as...
- News items 2009-08-09
- Land securities' new deal and new chief executive.
- The FTSE 100 property group Land Securities' outsourcing arm, Trillium, has been selected as the preferred bidder for a GBP200m contract with Norwich Union. A new contract was expected after Trillium said at a series of investor briefings in January The FTSE 100 property group...
- Research articles 2004-04-08
- Enterprise Inns drops on fears over rent and beer sales
- The FTSE 100 rallied for the first time in three days yesterday, but Enterprise Inns came under pressure amid trading and financing concerns. Britain's biggest pubs group lost 3.2 per cent to 157p after rent data led Goldman Sachs to add the stock to its "sell" list. "In light of...
- News items 2009-08-12
- FTSE Seen Tracking Wall Street Gains
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The FTSE 100 is seen opening 9 to 14 points or 0.3 percent higher on Friday according to financial bookmakers, tracking gains overnight on Wall Street and in Asia ahead of the latest U.S. employment report which is expected to show the fewest job losses...
- News items 2009-11-05
- News: Mellon acquires Talking People.(Brief Article)
- Mellon Financial Corporation has today announced that it has acquired Talking People, one of the UK's top internal communication consultancies. [ ] The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, will see Talking People integrated into Mellon's Human Resources and Investor Solutions (HR&IS) business. [ ] Talking People...
- Research articles 2004-04-05
- US banking crisis prompts FTSE fall; BEAR STEARNS
- Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter The UK's biggest firms plunged into the red today as the fall-out from the cash crisis at troubled US investment bank Bear Stearns shook world markets. London's FTSE 100 Index fell by 2% in early trading as investor nerves over the latest...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Barclays and HBOS are sound bets
- THE FTSE 100's 10 quoted banks account for a fifth of the value of the entire stock market, so your pension fund almost certainly owns them. Familiar high street names, one and all, they are also a solid choice for the private investor. The sector has been...
- Research articles 2004-03-16
- AMP can't stop investor sell-off.
- Mar 03, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Shares in Australian financial institution, AMP, hit new lows on 3 March 2003. They closed $A0.23 down at $A6.77 after dipping to $A6.60 during intraday trading. The share price has now fallen for six...
- Research articles 2003-03-03
- European stock markets fall amid investor caution
- LONDON AFP ? European stock markets drifted lower in early trading in the wake of overnight losses on Wall Street, as investors showed caution ahead of a looming US interest rate decision. The British FTSE 100 index fell 0.45 percent to 4,482.0 points in late morning trading Tuesday, while...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- THE PRIVATE INVESTOR: Survivor wipes off the conglomerate stigma
- THE REHABILITATION of Tomkins, sealed by its readmission to the FTSE 100 index after a three-year absence this week, will go down as a case study for students of financial fashion. Tomkins was among the last multi-industry agglomerations - known in their heyday as conglomerates - to...
- Research articles 2002-09-14
- FTSE falls away.
- Weak mining stocks erase early gains. Plus a summary of business press headlines Jonas Crosland Early gains were wiped out in London this morning as mining stocks bore the brunt of a fresh bout of weakness in investor sentiment. By lunchtime, the FTSE100 index...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
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