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LONDON BRIEFING: HomeServe agrees to be bought for GBP4 billion

(Alliance News) - HomeServe on Thursday said it has agreed to be taken over by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in a deal worth GBP4.08 billion.

Canada's Brookfield buys Britain's HomeServe for $5 bln

FRANKFURT, May 19 (Reuters) - Canada's Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy British home repair services firm HomeServe for 4.08 billion pounds ($5.04 billion), as it looks to broaden its exposure to UK residential infrastructure investments.

LONDON MARKET PRE-OPEN: HomeServe agrees takeover; easyJet loss slims

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are set to slide on Thursday after a sell-off on Wall Street overnight as inflation and recession worries persist.

Canada's Brookfield to buy HomeServe in £4.1bn deal

(Sharecast News) - Canada's Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy London-listed emergency home repairs group HomeServe in a £4.1bn deal.

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Berenberg lowers target price on Homeserve

(Sharecast News) - Analysts at Berenberg lowered their target price on home repairs and improvements business Homeserve from 1,260.0p to 1,205.0p on Tuesday, stating a bid from Brookfield Asset Management's infrastructure fund appeared to be approaching.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: SocGen cuts Unilever to sell; RBC ups Diploma

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Tuesday morning and Monday afternoon:

RBC Capital downgrades HomeServe, says investors should take profits

(Sharecast News) - RBC Capital Markets downgraded HomeServe to 'sector perform' from 'outperform' on Thursday as it argued that investors should take some profits while they wait to see if a takeover bid from Canada's Brookfield Asset Management emerges.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: Berenberg raises SSE; Deutsche cuts Rio Tinto

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning and Wednesday afternoon:

LONDON BRIEFING: UK economy swings from growth to "risk of recession"

(Alliance News) - The UK's economy ground to a halt over the course of the first three months of 2022, preliminary data from the Office of National Statistics showed on Thursday.

HomeServe surges as Brookfield said to near takeover deal

(Sharecast News) - HomeServe shares shot higher on Wednesday following a report that Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management is nearing a takeover of the household repairs provider.

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: US Fed's aggressive rate hike stance sinks stocks

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London ended firmly in the red on Friday after the head of the US Federal Reserve all but confirmed an aggressive interest rate hike path, amid concerns the central bank is "behind the curve".

UK stocks fall on hawkish cenbanks, weak retail sales data

April 22 (Reuters) - UK shares fell on Friday as the growing prospect of aggressive monetary policy tightening coupled with a sharp drop in retail sales in the country prompted concerns about economic growth.

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Retail stocks struggle as UK sales slump

(Alliance News) - Blue-chip indices in Europe were in the red around midday on Friday, with further losses seen in New York, as America's central bank gave its biggest hint yet that big interest rate hikes are in the near future.

Homeserve shares surge on Brookfield bid talks

(Sharecast News) - HomeServe shares surged on Friday after the repair services firm revealed it was in talks Canada's Brookfield Asset Management for a possible offer.