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Cenkos Securities Pretax Profit Boosted By Recovering Equity Markets

LONDON (Alliance News) - Cenkos Securities PLC Wednesday said its annual pretax profit increased by 53%, boosted by recovering equity markets, and raised its full-year dividend to 12 pence from 7.5 pence. The institutional broker to growth companies said it made a GBP10.7 million pretax pro

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Government Completes 2nd Lloyds Bank Stake Sale

LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK government has raised a further GBP4.20 billion from its second sale of Lloyds Banking Group PLC shares, meaning it has now recouped GBP7.41 billion of the roughly GBP21 million that taxpayers injected into the bank during the financial crisis.<

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Standard Life Leads FTSE 100 Risers

LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.

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FTSE 100 - WINNERS

Standard Life, up 5.2%. The company has agreed to buy Ignis Asset Mana

UK MORNING BRIEFING: UK Completes 2nd Sale Of Lloyds Bank Shares

LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares have opened higher Wednesday, as the UK government completed its second sales of shares in Lloyds Bank.

The UK government said it has raised GBP4.2 billion from the sale, meaning it has now recouped GBP7.41 billion of the roughly GBP

MOVES- Macquarie Capital, Ameriprise

Dec 3 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Tuesday. To inform us of other job changes, email to moves@thomsonreuters.com. MACQUARIE CAPITAL The corporate advisory and capital markets arm of Macquarie Group appointed Jon Fitzpatrick as se

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-FTSE AIM index drops 0.6 percent

Junior-listed AIM shares drop 0.6 percent, in line with the mid-caps, while the blue chips drop 0.4 percent. Cenkos Securities climbs almost 4 percent after the specialist securities company proposes an interim dividend of 3.5 pence a share. Bellzone advances nearly 8 percent after th

Cenkos Securities Underlying Pretax Profit Rises 7.9% In Half

Sector movers: ARM lifts tech stocks higher as new iPhone unveiled

The launch of Apple's two new smartphone models may not have boosted the US group's own share price on Wednesday, but it did have a positive effect on two tech stocks in the UK, namely ARM Holdings and Imagination Technologies. Apple was trading 5.34% down at $468.24 in morning trade in New York af

AZ Electronic Materials directors try to minimize damage

John Whybrow, the Chairman of AZ Electronic Materials, which on Tuesday tanked after it issued a warning on full year revenue, has shown his faith in the chemicals company by enlarging his shareholding. Whybrow acquired 40,000 shares at 254p each for a total trade value of £101,600, taking his sta

Cenkos Securities shares surge on annual profit rise

Cenkos Securities shares soared Friday after reporting a 37 per cent rise in 2012 pre-tax profit, as the company pulled in new clients. The security firm posted a pre-tax profit of £7.0m for the year to December 31st 2012, up from £5.1m a year earlier. Revenue from continuing operations grew 16% t

Cenkos Securities pleased with half year results

Shares in financial services firm Cenkos Securities rose on Wednesday, with investors focusing on the half-on-half increase in revenue rather than the year-on-year decrease, which was largely attributed to the economic slowdown. Revenue from continuing operations came in at £20.2m, compared to £25

Carclo CEO cuts stake by a third

Ian Williamson, the Chief Executive of Carclo, a plastics business, has offloaded 230,000 shares, around a third of his total stake in the company. Williamson, who is set to retire after 18 years in the role, will pocket just short of a cool million from the transaction, which saw him sell the sha

London close: Footsie spins its wheels

- Investment management firms disappoint - Hard times on the High Street - Phlegmatic response to Fitch's threat to cut UK's AAA rating After a brief sojourn in positive territory during the morning session, the top share index returned to the region where it spent most of the day, bumping along ju

Cenkos Securities profits fall after difficult second half

2011 was a year of two halves for financial services firm Cenkos Securities, with the low level of corporate activity in the second half of the year taking its toll on the company's profits. Revenue fell 25.3% from £58.5m in 2010 to £43.7m in 2011, while profit before tax dropped by 9% from £6.6m

Tuesday tips round-up: Elementis, Genus, GW Pharmaceuticals

Elementis traces its roots to 1844 and the Harrisons & Crosfield tea and coffee trading conglomerate, but it took its present shape in 1998, when the company focused on chemicals found in substances such as paint, cosmetics and, more recently, shale gas wells, where the flow of a substance needs to