(ShareCast News) - Ferrexpo: UBS upgrades to neutral, cuts target price to 36.00p. Carillion: Investec Securities downgrades to hold. Target price: 300.00p. Weir Group: RBC Capital Markets downgrades to underperform, bumps down target price to 50.00p. United Utilities Group: Credit Suisse upgrades
Read moreLONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne will open bidding during a visit to China on Thursday on 12 billion pounds ($18 billion) of contracts to build a high-speed rail line, the latest effort to bring Chinese cash to Britain. Osborne will also seek Chinese backi
Read more(ShareCast News) - Highways England has selected Balfour Beatty's 50:50 joint venture with Carillion to upgrade a section of the A14 - a contract worth £292m. The two FTSE 250-listed infrastructure groups will deliver a package to upgrade the A14 between Swavesey and Milton as part of the wider A14
Read more(ShareCast News) - While Sir Martin Sorrell's post first half results comment was about China, North America offered a better view of what was driving WPP, the Financial Times' Lex said. The region was the advertising conglomerates biggest and highest margin region, as profits grew by 23% in the fir
Read more(ShareCast News) - UK equities dropped on Wednesday as China's economic slowdown continued to weigh on investors' minds. The People's Bank of China on Wednesday said it would pump 140 billion yuan into the financial system through a short-term liquidity adjustment operation. The SLO loans, introduce
Read more(Adds CEO comments) By Li-mei Hoang LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - British support services firm Carillion said it was on track for an increase in revenue this year after it posted a strong first half, boosted by contracts won in 2014 and multiple orders secured in 2015. Carillion,
Read more(ShareCast News) - Construction and support firm Carillion posted unchanged pre-tax profits for the first half of the year, in line with forecasts. The company posted first half pre-tax profit at £67.5m, unchanged from the first half of last year. While pre-tax profit was flat, underlying pre-tax p
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