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Recently appointed British American Tobacco chairman Richard burrows has bought 10,000 shares in the cigarettes supplier. He previously held no shares in the company. His initial investment is just short of £200,000. the shares were acquired for 1,949.35p each. Burrows has a background in the dr
Read moreShares in Watermark Global jumped after the acid mine drainage treatment company said it had signed a co-operation agreement worth R5m (£406,000) for its subsidiary Western Utilities Corporation to provide engineering work for South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation. The strong US dollar
Read moreBig banks will have to disclose how many of their UK employees are paid more than £1m under recommendations to be published today by City banker Sir David Walker, the FT writes. Sir David will say that half the bonuses paid to employees should be deferred for three to five years. He will also propo
Read moreBetter than expected unemployment figures and some relatively upbeat comments from Bank of England governor Mervyn King propelled Footsie to a new intra-day high for 2009 in the morning session, but stocks came off the top in the afternoon session. The UK unemployment rate, as measured by the Inter
Read moreShare prices are coming off the top, though Footsie remains comfortably in positive territory thanks to strong demand for miners and insurers. Miners are wanted as metal prices pick up following news that Chinese industrial output rose to a 19-month high in October. BHP Billiton, Kazakhmys, Rio Ti
Read moreThe Footsie is hovering around its high for the year of 5300, after better than expected UK unemployment figures. Sentiment was little affected by Bank of England governor Mervyn King saying he thinks inflation will rise above the 2% target set by the government as the impact of quantitative easi
Read moreBuyers have piled into mining heavyweights again as metal prices continue to surge, while trading updates and results give International Power and Sainsbury's a boost. Sainsbury's has posted a healthy rise in profits in the 28 weeks to October 3, but repeated a warning that lower food price inflati
Read moreJohnston Press, which publishes local and regional newspapers including the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, said trends in the advertising market were continuing to improve following a sharp downturn. In the last 10 weeks advertising revenues were down by 19.1%, meaning that the first 18 weeks of
Read moreSinger Capital Markets believes Tuesday's results from Daily Mail & General trust point to an improving trend in national and regional press advertising, but thinks pure consumer press plays Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror are better placed to benefit from this than the Daily Mail publisher, which
Read moreThe top men at miner Anglo Pacific have sold over £2m of stock after the price doubled inside six months. Chairman Peter Boycott and chief executive Brian Wides both got rid of 500,000 shares at 210p a go, netting each just over £1m. Boycott still owns 2.83m shares, or 2.65% of the company, worth
Read moreUS foods group Kraft will need to boost its offer to stand any chance of winning control of Cadbury, the world's second largest confectionery company in terms of sales, broker Charles Stanley reckons. 'The Kraft offer values Cadbury on less than 2x sales, significantly lower than the 2.3x sales it
Read moreThe share price of local newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has risen 248% since Singer Capital Markets advised its clients to buy the stock back in February, but the broker believes the shares are still worth buying as the publisher embarks on the next phase of its recovery. 'Stabilising revenues
Read moreLegal & General's new finance head Nigel Wilson spent his first day in the job on Tuesday. He now faces an interesting first few months at the embattled insurer. When his predecessor Andrew Palmer stood down in April, the company - once the darling of the stock market - had seen its relationship wi
Read moreLondon's benchmark index finished the day with decent gains, though off earlier highs, with banks and miners proving the catalyst. Lloyds was the major riser on rumours that it is considering alternatives to the government's toxic asset protection scheme (APS), which could include the sale of Scot
Read moreLondon's blue chips have added to gains in afternoon trading ahead of what is expected to be a rosy start on Wall Street. US stocks are seen posting good gains after Intel hiked its third-quarter revenue outlook just before the open. Kazakhmys, Xstrata, Rio Tinto, Antofagasta, Randgold Resources,
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