(ShareCast News) - The Bank of England will warn this week of a potentially damaging liquidity crisis in the gigantic market for government and corporate bonds, the Sunday Times said. A six-month investigation into bond markets culminates in a BoE's financial policy committee (FPC) meeting on Wednes
Read more(ShareCast News) - Dairy Crest shares are worth buying, said Danny Fortson in the Sunday Times' Inside the City column. Investors are currently awaiting a Competition & Markets Authority decision on 19 October whether to allow Dairy Crest to sell its dairy business, roughly two thirds of group sales
Read more(ShareCast News) - Telecommunications giant BT is expected to this week unveil details of how it plans to deliver fibre broadband coverage to homes in rural areas. The company has already been tasked with extending the level of coverage from the current 80% of homes to 95% by December 2017. Its pla
Read more(ShareCast News) - Losses on London's top-flight index were being ascribed by some media outfits to a 'fat finger' error or an error in an automated trading system. Shares in BHP Billiton, BP, BT Group, Diageo, HSBC, Wolseley, Vodafone and British American Tobacco were among the affected stocks. Th
Read more(ShareCast News) - Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao should step down after Liberty Global walked away from merger talks, telecoms analyst Neil Campling has said, while numerous other consequences could follow. The highly respected Campling, a partner at London broker Aviate Global, said tight
Read more(ShareCast News) - Royal Bank of Scotland will begin marketing the initial public offer of its Williams & Glyn spin-off later this year ahead of a flotation expected in the second half of 2016. The Sunday Telegraph reported that, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch advising the lender on the process,
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