LONDON BRIEFING: Direct Line Catches Up Payout As BP Halves Dividend
LONDON BRIEFING: Direct Line Catches Up Payout As BP Halves Dividend
Read moreLONDON BRIEFING: Direct Line Catches Up Payout As BP Halves Dividend
Read more(Sharecast News) - Could a French telecoms billionaire be circling BT's Openreach arm? The mutter from the City gutter is that the secretive Patrick Drahi has set his sights on the division that maintains Britain's telephone lines and internet cables. Drahi, a powerful dealmaker, now resides in Switzerland but made his fortune in France building telecoms groups Altice. The rumour claims that one of the Altice companies Drahi controls - perhaps Altice USA - has secured financial backing from heavyweight bankers at JP Morgan with a view to paying £20billion for the unit. - Mail on Sunday
Read moreLONDON MARKET MIDDAY: FTSE 100 Struggles As IAG And BT Shares Slump
Read more* MTN CEO Rob Shuter to start at BT in early 2021* MTN to announce Shuter's successor in next 4-8 weeks* MTN scraps first half dividend* MTN shares down more than 4% (Adds BT CEO quotes, MTN scrapping dividend and background)By Nqobile DludlaJOHANNE...
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Read moreJOHANNESBURG, July 31 (Reuters) - The chief executive officer of South Africa's MTN Group, Rob Shuter, has been appointed to head the enterprise unit of British broadband and mobile operator BT from next year, the two firms said on Friday.MTN wil...
Read moreTOP NEWS: BT Hurt As Virus Wrecks Football Calendar; MTN CEO To Join
Read more(For a live blog on European stocks, type LIVE/ in an Eikon news window)* British Airways owner slides on planned equity raise* LSE jumps on profit rise, considering selling Milan bourse* BT down on bleak outlook, IAG drops on plans to raise $3.3 b...
Read moreLONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks Tread Water Ahead Of EU GDP; IAG Sinks
Read moreLONDON MARKET PRE-OPEN: BT Hurt By No Sport And NatWest Swings To Loss
Read more* Q1 revenue down 7% to 5.25 bln stg, core earnings also fall 7%* Sees FY revenue down 5-6%, earnings of 7.2-7.5 bln stg* Shares down 3% (Adds CEO comments, shares)By Paul SandleLONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - BT, Britain's biggest broadband and mobil...
Read more(Adds details, quote)LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - BT, Britain's biggest broadband and mobile operator, reported a 7% drop in both revenue and core earnings in its first quarter after the COVID-19 pandemic impacted its BT Sport television revenue an...
Read more(Sharecast News) - BT posted a decline in first-quarter profit on Friday as the coronavirus pandemic weighed on revenues.
Read moreLONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - BT, Britain's biggest broadband and mobile operator, reported a 7% drop in both revenue and core earnings in its first quarter after the COVID-19 pandemic impacted its BT Sport television revenue and reduced demand fro...
Read moreLONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Openreach, the networking arm of Britain's BT, plans to build gigabit-capable broadband to 3.2 million homes and businesses in hard-to-reach areas after regulator Ofcom proposed a supportive pricing regime on Wednesday...
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