

Afren: JP Morgan Cazenove reiterates overweight. Avocet: Westhouse Securities upgrades to buy. Barclays: Goldman Sachs upgrades to neutral, target c...


- Kingfisher leads fallers on the Footsie - Upbeat European earnings lift sentiment - Fed says US expanding at 'modest to moderate' rate UK stocks ed...


Digging deeper at the Simrit-2 exploration well in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has paid off for oil exploration firm Afren as the well's total net oi...


- UK industrial production up one per cent in May - UK still in recession, says NIESR - Chinese import data disappoints Some better-than-expected pro...


Resources stocks were leading the risers on the second-tier index as copper and oil prices edge higher. Heritage Oil, Petropavlovsk, Ferrexpo, Cairn E...


- G8 underwhelms; markets look to EU summit - Hollande expected to push eurobond idea to Merkel - Risk-on as financials, miners advance; defensives so...


- G8 underwhelms as euro crisis continues to hamper sentiment - Cameron warns Eurozone to anticipate Greek exit - Barclays to offload BlackRock stake ...


- Eurozone GDP flat in first quarter - German GDP surprises to the upside - UK trade deficit narrows slightly The FTSE 100 was registering only sligh...