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UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Hargreaves Continues To Rise, e-Therapeutics Trips

e-Therapeutics Pretax Loss Widens As R&D Expenditure Rises

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: E-Therapeutics Exec, Wife Combined Shares Total 1.8M

Wife of DS Smith CEO sells 5.6m-pound stake

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

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

Babcock 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

Friday broker round-up UPDATE

Afren: 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

Debenhams Executive Director adds to stake

Michael Sharp, the Executive Director of retail chain Debenhams, has topped up his stake in the group with the purchase of 50,000 shares. Sharp, who has been in his current role since September 2011, bought the shares at 97.20p for a total of £48,598. He now holds 6.2m shares in the company. Debe

e-Therapeutics shares jump following 40m equity issue

Drug 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

Tuesday broker round-up

Aggreko: 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

Monday broker round-up - UPDATE

888 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

e-therapeutics produces mixed interims

e-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

Bramson vehicle buys more shares in F&C

F&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

Wife of outgoing FD sells British Land shares

Diane 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.

Shaftesbury boss invests £100,000

Shaftesbury 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