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Tuesday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - B&M European Value: Retail HSBC reiterates buy with a 410p target. Zoopla: Jefferies stays at buy with a 430p target. Royal Dutch Shell "a": UBS reiterates buy with a target price of 1950p and HSBC stays at buy with a 2000p target. Ultra Electronic Holdings: JP Morgan reiterates

Britain's FTSE index set to post fourth consecutive month of gains

* FTSE 100 index down 0.1 percent * Set to post fourth straight month of gains * Hits one-month high before easing * Alliance Trust rises on M&A news (Adds detail and updates prices) By Kit Rees and Atul Prakash LONDON, May 31 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index

Marathon's Galveston Bay gasoline unit may begin shutdown Monday-filing

HOUSTON, May 30 (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp may begin the shutdown of the small gasoline unit at its 451,000 barrel per day (bpd) Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas as early as Monday, according to a regulatory filing. Sources have told Reuters that Marathon plans to perma

INVESTMENT FOCUS-History suggests Volkswagen shares may struggle to bounce higher

* Volkswagen near 2016 highs ahead of next week's earnings * Analysts turn more positive on the stock * BP, Olympus remained well below pre-crisis levels, one year on * Graphic: when blue chips stumble http://reut.rs/1NULzZP * Graphic: Volkswagen performance vs peers http:

UPDATE 1-Kremlin aide says state-held Rosneft stake can't be sold on open market - agency

(Adds details, quotes, background) MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters) - Russia should not sell a planned 19.5 percent stake in top national oil producer Rosneft on the open market, but should rather look to attract two strategic investors, TASS news agency quoted a Kremlin adviser as saying on Thurs

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Resource Stocks Support Flat FTSE 100

London pre-open: Fedspeak, G7 and rise in oil futures in focus

(ShareCast News) - Stocks are set to give back some of the week´s ahead of the a fresh reading on economic growth in the first quarter and against the backdrop of today´s meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank governors in Sendai, Japan. As of 06:54BST the Footsie was being called to start

BP Starts Thunder Horse Water Injection Project In Gulf Of Mexico

FTSE 100 movers: Financials, Big oil pace gains

(ShareCast News) - Financials were again to be found near the top of the leaderboard on Wednesday with shares of 'big oil' firms nipping at their heels. According to an opinion poll conducted for the Evening Standard by Opinium, voters in London said they were overwhelmingly in favour of the UK stay

BP, Shell among bidders to run Qatar oil field - sources

By Tom Finn DOHA, May 25 (Reuters) - Six international oil firms including BP and Royal Dutch Shell Plc have bid to operate Qatar's largest offshore oil field, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The other bidders are the field's current operator Maersk , as well as

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Banks Lead Gains As M&S Heads Opposite Way

UPDATE 1-Algeria's In Amenas gas plant due back at full capacity in June - source

* In Amenas output down since 2013 militant attack * Third gas train in test production last week * Output to increase as EU, Algeria talk energy (Adds details on production, background) By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, May 25 (Reuters) - Algeria's In Amenas gas processing plan

Algeria's In Amenas gas plant due back at full capacity in June - source

ALGIERS, May 25 (Reuters) - Algeria's In Amenas gas plant started test production at its third train a week ago and will soon back at full capacity, more than three years after a militant attack, a source at state energy firm Sonatrach said on Wednesday. The plant's second train is in sched

UPDATE 1-BP, Azerbaijan's SOCAR outline Caspian Sea exploration deal

(Adds details, context, background) BAKU, May 25 (Reuters) - BP and Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR announced on Wednesday they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly explore prospects in a new block, D230, in the North Absheron basin of the Caspian Sea. The mo

EBRD in talks with Azerbaijan, Turkey on funding gas pipeline

BAKU, May 25 (Reuters) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has started talks with Azerbaijan and Turkey on its possible financing of the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP), an official at the bank said on Wednesday. TANAP, launched in Turkey in March 2015, aims t