

Mergers and acquisition activity is keeping share prices bubbling as London makes a solid start to the week. Friends Provident is the best performer...


The blue-chip index edged higher in the morning sessions despite the weakness of miners and banks, with increased merger and acquisition activity enco...


The insurance tycoon Clive Cowdery has tabled a proposal to merge Friends Provident, the £1.4bn pension and life company, with his quoted investment v...


London's blue chips have given back some of yesterday's gains though trading is light after a dull day on Wall St yesterday. Oil-related stocks are ...


Sir John Parker will be named the new chairman of Anglo American today in a move that will further bolster the miner's defence against a merger approa...


Footsie made a brief attempt to lift itself into the blue in late trading but finished where it spent most of the day: firmly in negative territory. ...


Footsie is halfway to a triple digit fall as resource stocks drag the market lower, with many pundits suggesting that the market may have bounced back...


British Airways suffered a blow today as staff rejected plans to cut as many as 4,000 jobs and freeze pay. Over 2,000 employees got together at Kempt...