CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. (NYSE: CLF), Alpha Natural Resources,...
MARKET REPORT Bad broker sentiment bore down on Bellway, the FTSE 250-listed housebuilder, which lost 16.5p to 706.5p yesterday. Goldman Sachs, whose analysts weighed in on the housebuilding sub- sector, dealt the blow, downgrading the stock to "sell" from "neutral". "We are cutting our...
LONDON AFP — Europe's main stock markets diverged on Thursday as companies published mixed earnings news, and after share-price gains in Tokyo and overnight on Wall Street, dealers said. In late morning trading, London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares was up 0.22 percent at 6,229.50 points. Frankfurt's...
Sentiment turns on gloomy outlook. Jonas Crosland Early gains have been surrendered in London as the market finally started to show some reaction to the gloomy economic picture painted first by Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, and then yesterday by...
LONDON AFP — European and Asian stock markets mostly fell Tuesday after fresh worries about the fallout from the US subprime loan crisis battered Wall Street overnight. "Markets are generally volatile at the moment," a Paris dealer noted. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies dropped 0.39 percent...
M&A activity provides support but shares dip away towards the close Jonas Crosland After trading flat for much of the day, as merger and acquisition activity offset credit-market concerns exacerbated by Bear Stearns' comments it was weathering the worst storm in financial ...
LONDON AFP — Europe's main stock markets mainly rose as investors seized on the latest developments in the multi-billion-euro takeover battle for control of Dutch lender ABN Amro, dealers said Monday. They also kept an eye on surging oil prices, as the price of London's Brent North Sea crude...
Early gains lost as investors keep their powder dry Jonas Crosland Leading shares trod water for most of the morning session in London before easing a little towards lunchtime to leave the FTSE 100 index down 21.2 points at 6,695.5. Mid-cap stocks also drifted, and...
Leading stocks drift lower in thin volume Jonas Crosland What little buying activity there was in early trading melted away as the morning progressed, and at lunchtime, the FTSE 100 index drifted lower to show a loss of 15.3 points at 6,580.7. The wider market...
Consolidation in the housing sector continues, and an intense bout of bid speculation surrounded Berkeley Group yesterday. At one stage the shares rallied 154p to 1,873p, a new intra-day high, before closing 111p better at 1,830p. The rest of the housing sector was sluggish in comparison and...
LONDON AFP — Dutch bank ABN Amro emerged on Monday as a hot takeover prospect in the sights of British banking group Barclays, thought likely to make an offer to create the fifth-biggest banking group in the world. Barclays was expected to say at any time if it planned...
NEW YORK AFP — US stocks closed higher after a government report showed employers had added a better-than-expected 132,000 non-farm positions to their payrolls last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 29.08 points (0.24 percent) at 12,307.49. The tech-rich Nasdaq composite finished 9.67 points (0.40 percent) higher at...
Active managers who beat their benchmarks will always grab the headlines, but few are able consistently to add value. Research by F&C Asset management, for example, shows that only one in five UK All Companies funds outperformed either side of the volatile period in May. Figures like this help to...
Mar 06, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The S&P/ASX 200 Index made its biggest weekly gain in two years in the week commencing 28 February 2005. The index rose two per cent during the week, adding 15.2 points on 4 March...
Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 19--Conrad Black agreed Sunday to sell his controlling stake in the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times, turning his media holdings over to multimillionaire British twins and giving the city's No. 2 paper its fifth...
By Sally Hamilton, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 6--The battle to win the hearts and commissions of the dwindling number of active share traders is gathering pace. Big brokers such as Charles Schwab and Barclays Stockbrokers...
Barclays Barclays is a more risky investment than the familiarity and longevity of its name suggests. It led the largest syndicated loan to Enron by European banks. Small wonder, it is a global colossus in the business of risk and reward, and its borrowers are as diverse...
ABN AMRO, the troubled Dutch banking giant, is poised to agree to sell its investment banking interests to Barclays, according to market gossip yesterday. The tale, which resurfaced in Amsterdam in the morning, has done the rounds before, but dealers heard that informal contacts have been stepped...
Traditional images of pinstriped City stock- brokers minding the share portfolios of rich individuals are being consigned to history. Thanks to the growing number of online sites, barriers to share dealing are breaking down. The lower transaction costs available via the internet are attracting a wider range of people -...
Francesco Guerrera MEDIA STOCKS are set to make the market headlines in a week packed with results announcements. Traders longing for a summer of sun and long lunches will have to be chained to their desks for another five days to keep tabs on interims from...
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