Barclays Share News (BARC)

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Stocks End Up As Fed and BoJ Decisions Loom

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Blue Chips Underperform On Big Earnings Day

Barclays CIB profits fall 31% as oil losses bite

By Steve Slater LONDON, April 27 (IFR) - Barclays' investment bank profits fell 31% in the first quarter from a year earlier as a strong performance in credit was offset by lower revenue in all other areas and losses on loans to oil and energy firms. The British bank said on Wednesday

WINNERS & LOSERS SUMMARY: Barclays Moving In The Right Direction

UPDATE 2-Barclays weathers tough start to year, investors relieved

* In talks to sell French retail unit * Investment banking performance beats U.S. rivals * Bank being reshaped by new CEO Staley (Adds details following conference call, investor quote, shares) By Lawrence White LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Barclays followed its U.S. riv

Barclays in talks to sell French business to AnaCap

(ShareCast News) - Barclays has agreed to hold exclusive negotiations to dispose of its French retail banking and wealth businesses, according to European private equity group AnaCap Financial Partners. AnaCap said it has begun talks about a deal that would see Barclays continuing to operate its cor

BUZZ-Barclays hits 3-month high after upbeat Q1 results

** Barclays jumps as much as 4.6% to its highest since Feb 2 ** Q1 revenue and profit before tax ahead of consensus ** On track to meet 2016 guidance for its core business of 12.8 bln stg, and longer-term target of a group cost to income ratio under 60% ** Citi calls results "so

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Barclays Core Strength Boosts Shares

London pre-open: Stocks seen touch lower as eyes turn to Fed

(ShareCast News) - London stocks were expected to open a little lower on Wednesday following a lacklustre session on Wall Street and losses in Asia, as investors digested disappointed earnings from tech giant Apple and looked to the Federal Reserve rate announcement. The FTSE 100 was seen starting s

UPDATE: Barclays Profit Down 25%, In Talks On French Retail Bank

Non-core activities still dragging the chain at Barclays

(ShareCast News) - Barclays reported a dip in profit in its first quarter on Wednesday, with group profit before tax at £793m in the three months to 31 March, down from £1.06bn a year earlier. The FTSE 100 banking group said this reflected an 18% increase in core profit before tax to £1.6bn, though

TOP NEWS: Barclays First-Quarter Pretax Profit Falls 25%

Barclays Q1 profit falls 33 pct as investment banking slowdown bites

LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Barclays reported a worse than expected 33 percent slump in pretax profits for the first three months of the year, as the lender followed its U.S. peers in reporting falling investment banking revenues in a weak global market environment. Barclays said first qua

UPDATE 1-Bank of England says investors may need to accept lower bank profits

* BoE's Cunliffe says investors should expect lower returns * Profit expectations have not dropped to match reduced risk * Banks need to cut costs or boost profit from investment banking (Adds detail from speech, context) By David Milliken LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - In

UPDATE 1-Ex-Barclays boss tells court he did not know of alleged rigging

(Adds detail on emails shown in court) By Anjuli Davies and Kirstin Ridley LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Former Barclays executive Eric Bommensath told a London court on Tuesday that he was not aware of alleged attempts by traders at the British bank to manipulate the Libor global fina