You will search in vain for positive features among FTSE 100 index constituents, as every stock that belongs to the top-share index is lower, after consultancy BDO LLP's UK output index, which tries to gauge output over the next three months, declined in October to the lowest level in more than two years.
[7 Nov '11]Struggling food manufacturer Premier Foods has been given a bit of breathing space by its bankers, who have agreed to defer the company's end-of-year loan covenant tests by three months.
[7 Nov '11]Precision tool maker Renishaw's plummeted on Thursday after the firm admitted that revenue growth in the three months ended 30th September was lower than planned.
[13 Oct '11]London's leading share index closed in the blue as worries over the Slovak parliament's rejection of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) gave way to optimism that it will be passed.
[12 Oct '11]Premier Foods plummeted after Exane's analyst Jeff Stent branded the firm's third-quarter results as "shocking" and said that he failed to see "an equity escape route" for the company.
[12 Oct '11]Premier Foods is leading the food sector lower after RBS has downgraded its rating on the maker of Hovis bread from buy to hold and cut its target price by a whopping 84% following the group's profit warning on Friday.
[10 Oct '11]Galvan Research and Trading rates Capita shares as a buy, saying that the firm could see an "outsourcing bid pipeline boom".
[10 Oct '11]RBS has downgraded its rating on Premier Foods from buy to hold and cut its target price by a whopping 84% following the group's profit warning on Friday.
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