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Shares continue to drift lower with BP leading the way down as concerns about its Russian expansion plans rumble on. One of BP's major shareholders, Standard Life, has told the oil giant to walk away from its troubled deal with Russian state oil company Rosneft. BP wants to push ahead with the sh
Read moreBuilding and plumbing supplies giant Wolseley has bounced back. It has returned to profit and reinstated its dividend as its core markets in Europe and the US both stabilised. Rio Tinto's bid for Riversdale has been declared unconditional. BP is under pressure after major shareholder Standard Li
Read moreThe top share index is struggling to find any sense of direction for the second day in a row. Building supplies group Wolseley's results found favour, but BP is under pressure. BP is also under pressure after major shareholder Standard Life told it to walk away from its troubled deal with Russian s
Read moreLondon is marking time this morning with investors keeping a wary eye on events in Japan and Libya. BP is also under pressure after major shareholder Standard Life told it to walk away from its troubled deal with Russian state oil company Rosneft. BP wants to push ahead with the share-swap that w
Read moreTaxes will be increased on expensive houses, allowing the government to fulfil its longer-term promise to scrap the 50p income tax rate, Nick Clegg has said. The deputy prime minister said the top rate would be eliminated once people on lower middle incomes were "breathing more easily" but only if
Read moreRetailers expressed their fury over lack of action by both the police and the Government after shops and businesses in London's West End were attacked and occupied in violent protests organised by splinter groups involved in yesterday's trade-union-organised anti-cuts march. Mobs attacked stores in
Read moreBP chief executive Bob Dudley has come in for some sharp criticism after the $16bn share swap with Russian rival Rosneft was blocked again last night. The Arctic exploration deal with the state-owned oil giant has been scuppered after an injunction issued to Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR), the UK firm's
Read moreFootsie just about kept its head above water in the morning session but index heavyweight BP was a major drag after last night's news about the blocking of its $16bn joint venture with Rosneft. Broker commentary is behind the share price movements of the Footsie's best and worst performers. Reckit
Read moreLondon has moved higher but BP is acting as a drag and retailers have run into some profit taking. Yesterday's big news about the blocking of BP's $16bn joint venture with Rosneft came too late to be reflected in the share price performance last night, but the shares are slipping back as the UK fi
Read moreLondon is set to pick up from where it left off yesterday, with City traders expecting the top share index to smash through the 5900 barrier to open at around 5,921, up 40 points. Company news is thin on the ground, however. Yesterday's big news about the blocking of BP's $16bn joint venture with R
Read moreBP's Arctic exploration deal with Russian state oil giant Rosneft has gone on hold again after an injunction issued to AAR, the UK firm's Russian partners in its TNK-BP joint venture, was renewed by an independent arbitrator. "We won," an AAR spokesman told reporters. BP said it was "disappointed
Read moreOil companies are still reeling from yesterday's Budget decision to increase the tax paid on North Sea oil and gas production to subsidise a 1p a litre cut in fuel duty. North Sea focused oil producer Enquest slumped on the news and is down again today. Encore Oil suffered a less dramatic post-Budg
Read moreFootsie ended the day close to its high point though that was largely due to the strength of mining stocks rather than a rapturous reception to the UK Budget. What did get a rapturous reception, at least for a while, was the news that the voting by the Monetary Policy Committee in March on interest
Read moreIt would appear that the UK Budget was far from a blockbuster as the market has reacted phlegmatically to the Chancellor's big day. The headline grabbing move was the commitment to effectively abolish National Insurance and push up income tax to compensate, but this will not take effect for some t
Read moreFootsie ended the morning more or less where it started it, as investors sit tight ahead of the Budget speech at 12:30pm. Resource stocks are in demand, with ENRC sitting atop a buoyant mining sector and Cairn leading oils higher. Underlying profits more than doubled last year at Kazakhstan-based
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