Wed, 24th Jul 2013 15:53
News 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 moreMichael 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
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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