After the massive let-down that was the European Central Bank's policy meeting on Thursday economists turn their attention to US job data for July.
[2 Aug '12]Rentokil is due to release its second-quarter results early in August and the market will be interested in just one thing - has City Link been sorted out? Rentokil's other two main divisions - the pest control business and its textile hire and cleaning services division - are both robustly profitable. The rat-catching operation recently announced it was being welcomed back into Libya, where a contract to clean the nation's cities of rats was interrupted by last year's civil w
[22 Jul '12]Balfour Beatty, BP, Ladbrokes, Morgan Crucible, Rentokil, RBS, Sage, Tullow
[8 May '12]- US payrolls data sinks global markets
- Eurozone services PMI revised lower
- Miners lead fallers in London, RBS erases gains
[4 May '12]Laird, which makes antennas and heat protection components often used in tablet computers and smartphones, says difficult trading conditions have continued into the first quarter, although it expects a 'seasonal uplift'.
[4 May '12]- Miners drop on macro concerns, Australian growth
- RBS rises after Q1 update
- Markets await US non-farm payrolls
[4 May '12]Nomura has maintained its reduce rating and 26p target price for part-nationalised lender Royal Bank of Scotland, but acknowledges that the first-quarter results were in line and 'modestly better than Lloyds'.
[4 May '12]Investec has put its target price for Rentokil Initial under review and maintained its hold rating on the stock after a mixed first-quarter trading update this morning.
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