Wednesday broker round-up
(Sharecast News) - Hargreaves Lansdown: Berenberg stays at 'buy' but lowers target price from 2,000.0p to 1,850.0p.
Read more(Sharecast News) - Hargreaves Lansdown: Berenberg stays at 'buy' but lowers target price from 2,000.0p to 1,850.0p.
Read moreLONDON MARKET MIDDAY: Stocks rise ahead of US inflation report
Read moreLONDON BROKER RATINGS: Liberum raises IAG; Berenberg downgrades M&G
Read moreLONDON MARKET OPEN: UK earnings and US infrastructure vote lift stocks
Read moreLONDON BRIEFING: Avast results strong ahead of NortonLifeLock merger
Read more(Adds detail, background)LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Britain's Heathrow Airport said that passenger numbers surged in July as the government eased travel restrictions and a recovery was underway, but warned that overall numbers were still down 80% ...
Read moreLONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic, the transatlantic airline founded by billionaire Richard Branson, may need a deeper travel recovery to take hold before it can secure investor backing for its plans to float on the London Stock Exchange,...
Read more(Sharecast News) - The world's most powerful activist investor has secretly built a stake in energy giant SSE in a move that could lead to a £20billion takeover bid for the FTSE100-listed company. City sources said Elliott Management, which has been dubbed a 'corporate raider' for buying shares and forcing change at large companies, has recently bought a large shareholding in SSE which supplies around five million Britons with energy to their homes. - Financial Mail on Sunday
Read moreAug 8 (Reuters) - UK-based hedge fund Odey Asset Management has sold its stakes in airline firms Ryanair Holdings Plc and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA , the Mail on Sunday reported.Hedge fund manager James Hanbury sold his holding ...
Read moreLONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that more countries would be opened up for travel as more COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out globally, after scrapping quarantine for fully-vaccinated travellers from F...
Read more(Recasts headline and lead)By Sarah YoungLONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Britain will scrap quarantine for fully-vaccinated travellers returning to England and Scotland from France, rowing back on a rule that had infuriated French politicians and thrown...
Read moreLONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Britain said that fully-vaccinated travellers returning to England from France will no longer have to quarantine, scrapping an extra rule imposed on its closest neighbour last month, as it also opened up to seven more co...
Read moreLONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he understood that people yearned for summer holidays abroad and that the government's swift vaccine rollout was enabling holidays in the European Union."I know how i...
Read moreBROKER RATINGS: Berenberg raises Rightmove to Hold from Sell
Read more(Adds background, comments)LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again with a simple user-friendly system of rules to allow for trips abroad."We need to get ...
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