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Sunday newspaper round-up: Enquest, Britain's economy, Bank of England

EnQuest is cutting spending, jobs and pay in an effort to avoid breaking the terms of its bank loans, the Sunday Times reported. The biggest independent UK North Sea oil producer's shares have fallen 80% since last summer as the price of crude oil collapsed. Investors took fright because of the comp

FTSE 100 movers: BP boosted by lower-than-expected fine, ARM hit by Intel competition

Oil giant BP was among the risers after the company revealed it faces a maximum penalty of $13.7bn under the Clean Water Act. This follows the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruling on the Deepwater Horizon case, which found that 3.19m barrels of oil were discharged in the Gulf

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Oil Producers Rise As Brent Recovers

UK BROKER RATINGS: SocGen Upgrades BT To Buy From Hold

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Shares Open Lower As Focus Shifts To ECB

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Primark Rescues AB Foods From A Sugar Hit

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Gold Price Surge Sends Miners Higher

TOP NEWS: Euro Falls As Swiss National Bank Removes Floor

Ofcom Moves To Ensure BT Always Plays Fair On Broadband Network Access

Wednesday tips round-up: BT, Workspace Group

The purchase of EE by BT will likely be inked at some point early next year, with the price tag at or around the £12.5bn price given. BT had begun work on building out its own mobile network from scratch, but an acquisition is more sensible. To take note of, even if highly unlikely some observers ha

Sunday share tips: BT Group, Shepherd Neame, Afren

Long-term investors should consider buying shares in BT, Danny Fortson argued in the Sunday Times. The Inside the City columnist said BT boss Gavin Patterson is likely to ask shareholders for about £2bn to help fund his acquisition of mobile operator EE. Patterson might not stop there because the ne

FTSE 100 movers: Retail sector boosted by data report while BT slides

Retail firms received a boost on Thursday after data showed higher-than-expected UK retail sales. Sales rose 1.7% month-on-month in December, much better than the 0.3% consensus expectation. Drinks group SABMiller and supermarket giant Tesco were both advancing. Financial stocks were also rising in

London close: Shares soar on upbeat Eurozone and bank news

London shares bounced back on Tuesday in the wake of some long-awaited upbeat economic data in the Eurozone and positive news for UK banks. The FTSE 100 Index climbed 149.11 points to 6331.83 as Markit's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for euro-area manufacturing rose to 50.8 in December from 50.1

London midday: Bargain-hunting supports FTSE as stocks rebound from 18-month low

Following a cautious start, UK stocks pushed into positive territory as investors went hunting for bargains. Shares had fallen to an 18-month low in the previous session. Markets erased earlier losses after UK inflation data showed the rate of increase in consumer prices hit a 12-year low in Novem

Broker tips: UK banks, BT, Imagination, Gulf Keystone

Shore Capital has said that the result of the Bank of England's (BoE) stress tests on UK banks was "a bit of a non-event" with all of the listed lenders passing as expected. "Overall, we do not expect the results of the stress test to have a material impact on the share prices of the large UK quoted