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BP has increased the amount it is looking to rake in from asset sales to $40bn, or £26bn, as rumours do the rounds it will offload its stake in the Prudhoe Bay field. The company, which needs the cash to pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil slick, wants $20bn (£13bn) for its 26% interest in the lucrative
Read moreLondon has started the week in confident fashion, still buoyed by Friday's better than expected US jobs data. British Airways is going well on chief executive Willie Walsh's ambitious plans to buy rivals. Walsh has held talks with executives of merger partner Iberia about BA's role as a consolidato
Read moreBP has recovered the blow-out preventer from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as its internal investigation into the causes of the Macondo well disaster nears a conclusion. The failure of the blow-out preventer led to an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed eleven people and sparke
Read moreTwo of Britain's best-known company bosses are poised to step down in a dramatic changing of the guard in FTSE 100 boardrooms. Headhunters have been called in to find a replacement for Sir John Bond as chairman of Vodafone, the mobile phone giant. Sir John Parker, meanwhile, is in the early stages
Read moreFootsie was buoyant as trading closed for the weekend following some well-received US jobs data. The number of Americans who lost their jobs in August was 54,000 compared with predictions of over 100,000. The payrolls count in both the previous two months was also revised higher, exciting another
Read moreDealing rooms across the City strapped on their buying boots ahead of the weekend following a much smaller than expected fall in US nonfarm payrolls. The number of Americans who lost their jobs in August was 54,000 compared with predictions of over 100,000. The payrolls count in both the previous t
Read moreFootsie finished the morning not far off its high for the day, marginally above the 5,400 mark. It was a quiet morning for hard news, however, so traders entertained themselves with some good old fashioned bid speculation. Temporary power solutions provider Aggreko is the top performer on whispers
Read moreBlue chips made progress early on for a sixth consecutive day, though all eyes will be on the US non-farm payrolls number at 1.30pm. US and Asian stocks made posted modest gains overnight. Autonomy is higher for a second day. Gossip doing the rounds yesterday was acquisition-hungry US software gian
Read moreBlue chips are seen gaining ground early on after last night's late charge on Wall Street, targeting a sixth consecutive day of gains. Futures prices point to an 18-point rise for London at the start of play following a 50-point jump for the Dow Jones overnight and a modest advance in the Far East
Read moreBP's bill for cleaning up after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has hit $8bn (£5.2bn), up over £1bn in less than a month, and the relief well is not expected to intercept the broken MC252 well for a couple of weeks. It's spent the money on the spill response, containment, relief well drilling,
Read moreA senior Bank of England official reignited the debate over levies on financial transactions yesterday, saying that policymakers needed to address the "myopia and volatility" in the markets. Andrew Haldane, executive director for financial stability at the Bank, said that disincentives may be neede
Read moreTesco, the UK's largest supermarket, is one of 10 bidders in the £650m auction for the south-east Asian assets of French rival Carrefour. Other bidders in the first round of bids for the stores are thought to include Casino, another French retailer, Aeon, the vast Japanese supermarket group, and Dai
Read moreAn already buoyant Footsie enjoyed a second wind in late trading as manufacturing data from the US added to hopes that the global economy remains on course for recovery. The Institute for Supply Management's factory index rose to 56.3 from 55.5 in July, against expectations of a decline. That gav
Read moreLeading shares moved sideways over the lunch time session, consolidating the morning's gains. In the battle of the "bid speculation" stocks, package tour operator TUI Travel leapfrogged over Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) to claim the prize as best performing blue-chip. TUI Travel is higher on h
Read moreIt is a quiet day on the corporate news front and, as is often the case on such days, bid gossip is occupying the thoughts of traders. Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), the demerged part of Cable & Wireless that is predominantly comprised of the telecoms giant's UK business, is being touted as a po
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