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- Equity market worries make Schroders a sell
- Our view: Take profits Share price: 1,073p(-34p) Like most fund management businesses, Schroders has been in rude health over the past year, as UK private investors have finally rediscovered their confidence in global equity markets. Announcing first-quarter trading figures yesterday, the group boasted a...
- Research articles 2006-05-17
- THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Stay on board for Carnival cruise profits
- Carnival has sailed through choppy waters in the past year, navigating past multimillion-dollar rises in its fuel bill and, most recently, the US government's decision to commandeer three ships to help with the clean- up operation in New Orleans. Nevertheless, the world's biggest cruise ship operator confirmed on Monday that...
- Research articles 2005-09-24
- ViryaNet and HP slide as Zebra and AirGate climb
- Hammered by consumer confidence woes, major markets fell this session. Job creation worries caused the Consumer Confidence Index to drop from the 105.7 posted in July to 98.2, far below the 103.5 reading economists had expected. The index had been rising since April, and the August reading was the lowest...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Markets head south
- For our trading session ended July 30, the major markets and the Frontline Ticker trended south, moved by consumer pullback, continuing terrorist threats, and a sharp spike in oil prices. Consumers kept their hands in their pockets this month, setting the Gross Domestic Product at a 3% annual gain for...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- ERICSSON SEEKS INCREASED SHARE IN SYMBIAN TO BLOCK NOKIA.(Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)(Symbian Ltd.)(Brief Article)
- The Swedish telecommunications manufacturer Ericsson is planning to increase its stake in the mobile phone software designer Symbian. This is to prevent its Finnish competitor Nokia from becoming the majority shareholder, according to a report in the Financial Times on March 22. The managing director of...
- Research articles 2004-03-23
- Change that brought a brighter outlook for Friends Provident
- WHEN THE Quaker-founded, Friends Provident in Dorking , Surrey, announced plans to demutualise and float back in 2000, many were sceptical the insurer would list without being bought. It was too small and too parochial to compete with the big Norwich Unions and Legal & Generals of this world, so...
- Research articles 2004-03-06
- Enterprise customers reveal their hopes for mobile e-mail; The ability to stay in touch with customers tops the list, according to IDC research commissioned by Psion Software.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 August 2003-PSION SOFTWARE: Enterprise customers reveal their hopes for mobile e-mail; The ability to stay in touch with customers tops the list, according to IDC research commissioned by Psion SoftwareC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07292003 Psion Software (www.psionsoftware.com), the software...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Evening Standard, London, Business Briefs Column.
- Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 21--MAN IS TOP DOG AS IT SNAPS UP GNI: Hedge fund specialist Man Group hailed itself as the world's largest independent futures broker after snapping up London-based GNI for UKpound 100 million in cash...
- Research articles 2002-10-21
- UK TechTracker
- The UK TechTracker was outperformed by the FTSE All Share and techMark All Share indices for the first time since its launch in the week to 22 March. The UKTT remained ahead of its rivals but slipped back to 121.20 from almost 131 points last time. The FTSE rose...
- Research articles 2000-03-27
- PSION DACOM: New Director for Psion Dacom >T.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 December 1999-PSION DACOM: New Director for Psion Dacom C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:131299 Psion Dacom today announces the appointment of Chris Ford as Financial Director of the company. Based in Milton Keynes, Ford's responsibilities include financial systems, strategic financial...
- Research articles 1999-12-13
- Around the World's Markets: London
- EQUITIES WERE unsettled by the big placing of Cable & Wireless. At one time Footsie was down 122.8 points; it closed 75.4 lower at 6,206.8, with share volume, thanks to C&W, nudging 1.5 billion, one of the highest ever. Supporting shares fell back, with the mid cap index ending a...
- Research articles 1999-03-16
- Eye on the prize
- Psion's Series 5, already selected as a millennium product, to go on show in the Dome at Greenwich, has been shortlisted for Britain's premier prize for engineering: the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award.The award is given annually for outstanding innovation of benefit to the community, and recognises the successful...
- Research articles 1998-07-27
- Bowling customers over can be a bit of old hat
- Stan Laurel's bowler hat is going on a nation-wide tour, thanks to the building society that features two bowler-hatted men in its ads. Bradford & Bingley bought the legendary Laurel & Hardy bowler at Bonhams auctions last autumn for pounds 2,000, after which it held a ceremony to...
- Research articles 1996-07-05
- Psion ditches Amstrad bid and blames price
- The proposed pounds 230m takeover of Amstrad was dramatically called off yesterday when Psion said it was not possible to reach an agreement on the price. No reason were given for the decision with Amstrad's chairman, Alan Sugar, saying: "I'm as much in the dark as you are."...
- Research articles 1996-07-27
- A dull day in the markets but the sun shines on Lords
- Lords Cricket Ground, headquarters of the English game, was yesterday home to a large part of the commercial and financial establishment as well. A dull day on the markets it may have been, undermined by futures selling, but the sun was shining in St Johns Wood. Even Nick Knight, famously...
- Research articles 1996-07-27
- Psion's pounds 230m Amstrad takeover move catches City by surprise
- Psion is close to making an agreed takeover of Amstrad. In a move that caught the City by surprise yesterday, the successful personal organiser maker hopes to acquire Alan Sugar's once high-flying computers to mobile phones group for at least pounds 230m. The deal was instigated by Mr...
- Research articles 1996-06-26
- Sugar makes an exit, but what's Psion's game?
- Alan Sugar is one of only a handful of entrepreneurs in Britain who can genuinely claim to have transformed an industry. His IBM clone revolutionised the personal computer business. For a number of years at least, it also made investors in Amstrad a great deal of money. But since then,...
- Research articles 1996-06-26
- Private means.(privatization trends and other business news)(Brief Article)
- Privatisation revenues around the world dipped in 1995, but the urge to privatise is strengthening again. Top floaters in 1995 were Australia ($9.4 billion), Italy ($7.2 billion) and France ($5.7 billion). Germany this year will raise $16.9 billion, $10 billion of that by selling part of...
- Research articles 1996-06-29
- Sugar serves Betacom an ACE
- Amstrad will announce today the injection of its loss-making consumer electronics business into Betacom, the separately quoted telephone equipment distributor it controls. The deal is being seen as a possible precursor to a takeover by Alan Sugar of Betacom, allowing the Amstrad chairman to continue his long involvement with the...
- Research articles 1996-07-01
- Amstrad sale aids Psion deal
- Amstrad is hiving off its loss-making consumer electronics operation, ACE, in an attempt to make itself more attractive to Psion, the electronic organiser maker that last week said it was planning a pounds 230m bid. The former engine-house of Amstrad's rise to prominence in the 1980s will be...
- Research articles 1996-07-02
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