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Cloudy outlook for UK dividends after record Q3

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A slowing global economy is likely to darken the outlook for UK dividends as companies cut back to protect their balance sheets, after a record third quarter for shareholder payouts, a report said on Monday. While UK dividends are still expected to grow some 3 per

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Stocks Up As Weak Data Leave Central Banks Cooing

Britain's FTSE forges ahead as Shire surges

* FTSE 100 ends up 0.6 pct at 6,378.04 points * Shire lifted by talk it may bid for a U.S. rival * Burberry extends previous day's slide * GKN hit by estimates downgrade from Liberum By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index rose on Frid

Britain's FTSE rises as Shire surges

* Shire lifted by talk it may bid for a U.S. rival * Burberry extends previous day's slide * GKN hit by estimates downgrade from Liberum By Kit Rees LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index rose on Friday, lifted by drugmaker Shire, whose shares rose on specula

CORRECTED-Oil chiefs fail to reach common position on carbon pricing

(Corrects CEO quoted in Paragraph 2) PARIS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Executives of ten of the world's largest oil and gas companies decided on Friday not to take a common position on the price of carbon because of differences among the groups' members, and countries ahead of a climate summit in P

FTSE 100 movers: Shire's schadenfreude as FDA holds up AstraZeneca

(ShareCast News) - The FTSE 100 was up 28.77 points (0.45%) mid-afternoon Friday to 6,367.44 as hopes of further stimulus measures by the European Central Bank increase on the back of continued low Eurozone inflation figures. Shire PLC led the risers on the back of news from AstraZeneca that the US

UPDATE 3-Oil bosses fight 'bad guy' image ahead of climate talks

* Oil firm CEOs call for effective deal at climate talks * Fail to agree on carbon pricing system * Promise to limit gas flaring, stop short of setting goals (Recasts, updates throughout) By Ron Bousso and Bate Felix PARIS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Oil and gas industry bosses

PRESS: BP And China's CNPC To Join Forces In Iraq - Reuters

BP, China's CNPC to unveil oil alliance - sources

LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - BP Plc and China's CNPC will next week unveil a strategic alliance to develop oil resources in Iraq and other regions, industry sources said on Friday. The deal, one of several high profile deals to be signed during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Lond

Azerbaijan cuts crude oil export in Jan-Sept by 2 pct - customs source

BAKU, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan has cut oil exports by 2 percent in January-September to 24.943 million tonnes, year-on-year, a customs source said on Friday. Azerbaijan exported 25.4 million tonnes of oil in the year-earlier period. (Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; writing by Katya

U.S. "oil trade king", BP's Porteous, to retire

By Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - One of the world's most powerful and best-paid oil traders, BP's head of crude Donald Porteous, will retire from the company in 2016 after what industry sources described as several years of bumper profits. Porteous, in his early 40s, is