Tue, 19th Feb 2013 16:21
The wife of DS Smith frontman Miles Roberts sold a substantial sum of shares in the packaging and office supplies firm on the same day it was revealed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) received a big pay increase last year. The move came on Tuesday, the same day DS Smith released its annual report
Read moreNews from biotech company e-Therapeutics about the progress of two clinical trials for its cancer drug pleased the markets on Tuesday. The AIM-listed company provided first findings for the company's ETS2101 drug candidate in Phase I trials in the US for patients with brain cancer and in the UK fo
Read moreBabcock International: Jefferies increases target price from 1080p to 1250p and maintains a buy recommendation. Barratt Developments: Bank of America takes target price from 265p to 325p, while downgrading to neutral. Belgravium Technologies: WH Ireland places both its target price and its neutral
Read moreAfren: Westhouse Securities initiates with a target price of 160p and a buy recommendation. Ashmore Group: Credit Suisse raises target price from 375p to 440p upgrading from underperform to neutral. Barratt Developments: Citigroup increases target price from 245p to 315p leaving its neutral rating
Read moreDrug discovery and development company e-Therapeutics is proposing to raise 40m pounds through an issue of new ordinary shares to existing and new institutional investors. The new shares will be priced at 32p, a premium of 4.0% to the closing mid-market price on Friday. Following the proposed issu
Read moreAggreko: UBS cuts target from 2,750p to 2,550p, buy rating kept. ARM Holdings: Investec keeps buy rating and 800p target. Avacta: Panmure Gordon keeps buy rating and 1.75p target. AZ Electronic: Canaccord Genuity ups target from 360p to 376p, buy rating kept. Babcock: JPMorgan Cazenove ups targe
Read more888 Holdings: Morgan Stanley ups target from 125p to 130p, overweight rating kept. Aggreko: Jefferies cuts target from 2,800p to 2,535p, buy rating kept; HSBC downgrades to underweight, target cut from 2,350p to 1,750p; JPMorgan Cazenove cuts target from 2,360p to 2,165p, neutral rating kept; Barcl
Read moree-therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company, produced mixed interims with slightly increased losses, but reported progress on its lead cancer drug. As expected, first half losses increased to £1.8m (2011: loss of £1.5m), reflecting increased investment in the business. The company ha
Read moreF&C Asset Management chairman Edward Bramson's investment vehicle SIGA LP has acquired more shares in the asset management company. Bramson was appointed chairman of F&C last month after a shareholder coup removed the previous incumbent, along with another non-executive, and appointed three new di
Read moreDiane Roberts, the wife of British Land finance director Graham Roberts, has raised more than £1m by selling more than three-quarters of the couple's stake in the property investor. She sold 191,780 shares at 562.8p each, which raised £1.08m. The couple are left with 50,464 shares in British Land.
Read moreShaftesbury chief executive Jonathan Lane has invested a further £100,000 in the property investor. Lane has bought 22,222 shares at 450p each. That takes his stake to 966,233 shares, which is worth £4.3m at the latest purchase price. Lane raised just over £99,000 from the sale of option shares la
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