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Sunday newspaper round-up: 'Right to buy', HSBC, IAG

(Sharecast News) - The Prime Minister is planning to give approximately 2.5 million Britons the right to buy the homes that they currently rent from housing associations. Boris Johnson ordered that planning start during the past fortnight, convinced that it would help "generation rent". Connected to the above, officials are also pursuing an idea by which tens of billions of pounds used by government to finance housing benefits would be funneled into helping recipients get mortgages. Details of the policy have surfaced ahead of what may be bruising local election results for Conservatives on Thursday. - Sunday Telegraph

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: BofA lifts Lloyds to 'buy' from 'neutral'

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

British Airways cancellations set to last through June

(Sharecast News) - British Airways passengers are set to face more cancellations, it was reported on Wednesday, with disruption expected to last for at least the next two months.

Heathrow won't make profit in 2022 as Covid losses exceed GBP4 billion

(Alliance News) - Heathrow Airport said Tuesday it will remain loss-making in 2022 as "demand remains very volatile".

Sunday newspaper round-up: Twitter, British Airways, Russian oil imports

(Sharecast News) - Relations between Twitter and and Elon Musk may be thawing if reports that the former is taking a fresh look at the technology magnate's £33bn takeover offer is anything to go by. According to the Wall Street Journal, the two sides were set to meet on Sunday to discuss the deal and Twitter's board was now said to be "more receptive to a deal". - Sunday Telegraph

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: RBC cuts Anglo American; Jefferies ups Berkeley

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

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Stocks mixed as miners restrain FTSE 100

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London ended mixed on Thursday with heavyweight miners weighing on the FTSE 100 after disappointing quarterly production figures, while in New York, Tesla continued to go from strength to strength.

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: FTSE 100 limps behind as downbeat miners weigh

(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 was the session's laggard on Thursday, with the heady ascents posted elsewhere in Europe out of reach in London due to the index's heavyweight mining sector, which dragged following some underwhelming production reports.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: IAG and Wizz Air receive price target cuts

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

Sector movers: Travel and Leisure boosted as airlines put pandemic behind them

(Sharecast News) - Travel stocks paced gains on the stock market at the end of the holiday-shortened week, led by WizzAir after the Eastern Europe-focused low cost carrier told investors that it was putting the pandemic behind it.

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Traders cautious ahead of ECB, US bank earnings

(Alliance News) - Trading remained cautious in Europe at midday on Thursday, with an equally indifferent open seen in the US, as investors remained in 'wait and see mode' ahead of the European Central Bank and a glut of US bank earnings.

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Investors await ECB; Wizz Air takes off on demand

(Alliance News) - Europe's blue chip benchmarks were searching for direction at the open on Thursday as investors gear up for the latest European Central Bank rate decision.

UK midcaps slip as inflation hits 3-decade high; Tesco slides

April 13 (Reuters) - UK midcaps slipped on Wednesday after data showed annual inflation last month rose to a three-decade high, intensifying a cost-of-living squeeze faced by households and hit to the profits of supermarket companies like Tesco.

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Europe down but New York rises despite hot US CPI

(Alliance News) - Equities in Europe weakened on Tuesday, with banking stocks among those leading the declines, though markets in New York opened strongly after the latest US inflation reading came in hot, but not as robust as some had feared.