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LONDON MARKET OPEN: HSBC lifts FTSE; Quilter up on NatWest bid report

(Alliance News) - European equities were largely higher in early dealings on Monday, undeterred by a weaker manufacturing activity reading from China and poor German retail sales figures, with gains for lenders and publisher Pearson supporting the FTSE 100.

Take Five: Time to be forceful?

But policymakers must also contend with cooling economies, with U.S. post-COVID job creation possibly topping out and a gas supply crunch potentially throwing Europe into recession.

HSBC raises profit target, pledges return to dividends

(Sharecast News) - HSBC on Monday reported a fall in first-half profits but pledged to resume quarterly dividends next year as its annual outlook remained positive.

LONDON MARKET EARLY CALL: FTSE called lower ahead of PMIs; HSBC rises

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were seen opening lower on Monday, with the FTSE 100 giving back some of Friday's advance, as economic data from China disappointed.

TOP NEWS: HSBC signals higher returns on the horizon amid rate hikes

(Alliance News) - HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday reported a drop in profit in the first half, on a rise in expected credit losses, but has vowed to up its returns to shareholders as the bank looks set to benefit from the current interest rates cycle.

Sunday newspaper round-up: Ukraine, HSBC, Quilter

(Sharecast News) - Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, issued a warning at the weekend that the war with Russia might halve Ukraine's harvest. Even so, Zelensky sounded a confident note, arguing that alternative ways were being found for grains to be delivered. John Rich, the Australian chairman of MHP, Ukraine's biggest agricultural produce company, was much more cautious. Rich also contradicted remarks from Lloyd's of London's boss during the previous week that the insurance market would underwrite the dangerous sea transit of millions of tonnes of grain through mine-laden waters. - Sunday Telegraph

UK stocks post best month of 2022

July 29 (Reuters) - Britain's top equity indexes rose on Friday and marked their strongest monthly performance of 2022, as a jump in commodities and a slew of upbeat earnings reports from companies like NatWest outweighed economic slowdown worries.

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

Six banks break UK rules on giving customers correct information

(Alliance News) - Six high street banks have broken competition rules about keeping customers informed, the UK regulator has announced.

Russia to review foreign bank sales case-by case, c.bank says

MOSCOW, July 22 (Reuters) - Russian's central bank will review deals by foreign banks to sell their Russian operations on a case-by-case basis, the governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Friday, as Moscow has signalled it would block any future exit attempts in sanctions retaliation.

Week ahead: FOMC meeting, Q2 earnings reports in the spotlight

(Sharecast News) - All eyes over the coming week will be on Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee, as much for what it has to say on interest rates at the present meeting as well as for its guidance, together with a raft of corporate earnings reports on both sides of the Atlantic.

Six high street banks broke CMA information rules

(Sharecast News) - Six high street banks were found to have broken rules imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority under the Retail Banking Market Investigation Order 2017, it was revealed on Friday.

PRESS: HSBC installs Communist party committee in investment bank

(Alliance News) - HSBC Holdings PLC has installed a Chinese Communist party committee within its investment bank, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

HSBC sells Russian business to ExpoBank

(Sharecast News) - HSBC has unloaded its Russian business shortly before Moscow announced that it would move to block foreign lenders divesting their operations in the country.