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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

BT paying "hefty" price for EE takeover, says Deutsche Bank

BT's £12.5bn offer for UK mobile network operator EE was "more expensive than expected", according to Deutsche Bank which kept its 'hold' rating on the telecoms giant. "After some serious speed dating, BT is now going steady with EE which is 50/50 owned by Orange and Deutsche Telekom (DT)," said ana

London open: UK stocks extend slide as Chinese data disappoints

Yet more disappointing economic data from China pushed UK stocks lower for the seventh straight session on Tuesday, with markets extending losses despite plunging to an 18-month low the previous session. Not even the news that the Bank of England (BoE) has given a clean bill of health to seven out o

Tuesday newspaper round-up: BT/EE, Russian interest rates, Sydney siege..

BT has rejected a simpler takeover of O2 in favour of exclusive talks to buy Britain's biggest mobile operator, EE, for £12.5bn. However, according to The Telegraph, the combined entity will control "an unrivalled chunk of Britain's mobile airwaves" and the merger is likely to raise regulatory conce

BT enters exclusive talks with EE over mobile buy

Telecoms group BT has entered exclusive talks with Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Orange about buying their mobile operation EE for £12.5bn, the company said on Monday. The period of exclusivity will last several weeks, allowing BT to complete its due diligence and for negotiations on a definitive agreem

FTSE 100 movers: Miners sink while oil companies recover slightly

Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton dipped following a downgrade at RBC Capital Markets to 'underperform' from 'sector-perform'. Other mining companies, including Fresnillo, Randgold Resources and Glencore, were also hit by a forecast of an extended period of low iron ore prices, due to over-supply

London midday: Stocks steady ahead of US data

UK stocks were holding higher ahead of a week full of potential risk events. Significantly, on Sunday Bloomberg reported that Libya was forced to declare "force majeure" at two of its ports, Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, which have a combined capacity to export 560,000 barrels of oil per day. Somewhat ir