Centrica ShareCast News (CNA)

Big caps round-up: Shell, Lloyds, BG Group ...

Companies covered in this round-up: Astra, BG, BSkyB, Capital Shopping, Centrica, Compass, Intertek, ITV, Kazakhmys, Lloyds Banking, Reed Elsevier, Rolls-Royce, Royal Dutch Shell, Tate & Lyle, Unilever.
[26 Jul '12]

London pre-open: FTSE to regain some of its recent losses

City sources predict the FTSE 100 will open up 14 points from yesterday's close of 5,498, tracking gains in the US and Asia. On Wednesday the index closed almost flat, following a far worse than expected GDP figure for the June quarter, news which counter-balanced any positive effect from comments by ECB council member Ewald Nowotny, who said in an interview with Bloomberg that there were arguments in favour of issuing a banking licence to the European Stability Mechanism (ES
[26 Jul '12]

Solid first half from Centrica

Energy provider Centrica cranked up a healthy increase in underlying profits in the first half of 2012, though the company admitted that its performance had been flattered by unusually low levels of consumption in the UK in the first half of last year.
[26 Jul '12]

Sunday newspaper round-up: Irreversible, Catalonia, British Gas

The euro is "irreversible" and the beleaguered currency union is not in danger of collapsing, according to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who also argued that Eurozone nations will eventually be bound even closer together. The central bank chief suggested that analysts who have been tracking the mounting sovereign debt crisis in Europe have been too pessimistic in forecasting worst-case scenarios for the currency and had not recognised the political will behind
[22 Jul '12]

Centrica expands footprint in New York

Energy provider Centrica has agreed to acquire the New York-based energy retailers Energetix and NYSEG Solutions, which operate as a single retail organisation, in order to strengthen its position in north-east America.
[12 Jul '12]

London close: Footsie flat ahead of FOMC minutes, Glencore up

- Investors await FOMC minutes
[11 Jul '12]

London midday: Footsie pares losses but still in the red

- Burberry leads stocks lower after Q1 update

- Johnson Matthey, Lloyds, Centrica, SSE fall after broker downgrades

- FOMC minutes due out later
[11 Jul '12]

Wednesday broker round-up

ASOS, Avanti, Aviva, Balfour, BTG, Burberry, Centrica, Croda, Derwent, Drax, Gulf Keystone, Hays, ICAP, ITV, JD Wetherspoon, Johnson Matthey, Lloyds, M&S, Micro Focus, Mondi, Rolls, SSE, Thorntons, WPP
[11 Jul '12]