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The market was not too impressed with Anglo American's UK cement and aggregates joint venture with Lafarge. Anglo American will put its Tarmac business into the 50/50 joint venture. The businesses have combined revenues of £1.8bn and there could be cost savings of £60m a year. In 2010, Anglo Ameri
18 Feb 11 12:56Footsie closed the day a shade higher having traded in a very narrow range all day as both buyers and sellers seem preoccupied with other things. Life insurance consolidator Resolution closed as top performer saying it is unlikely to make any further acquisitions this year. Instead, it will focus
17 Feb 11 16:51Footsie fell back over the lunchtime session with sentiment taking a knock from a bigger than expected increase in US consumer prices. The US Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in January, as it did in December, on the back of higher fuel and food prices. Economists had pencilled in a 0.3% rise. On th
17 Feb 11 14:43Banks are setting the pace today, while other stocks are moving in both directions after updates. The FTSE 100 is flat overall. Nomura says Lloyds Banking Group is the preferred name of the UK lenders, and has the best exposure to recovery of traditional banking, without the overhang of a capital m
17 Feb 11 12:07The FTSE 100 has moved higher in early dealings, with miners helping to offset weakness on the back of company updates. African Barrick Gold, which yesterday announced strong sales figures for the full year, is leading the mining sector - and the FTSE 100 - higher. However, elsewhere in the FTSE
17 Feb 11 08:40Last night's two-year high on Wall Street and further gains in the Far East this morning look like nudging London up a couple of points in early trade. There's also the usual stampede of company results. B&Q owner Kingfisher expects full-year profit to be at the top end of expectations after stren
17 Feb 11 07:38B&Q owner Kingfisher expects its full-year profits to be at the top end of expectations after strength in the international business helped the DIY retailer shrug off weather- and economy-related difficulties in Britain and Ireland in the fourth quarter. Like-for-like sales in Britain and Ireland d
17 Feb 11 07:06Thursday is, as usual, set to be a busy day, with updates expected from Redrow, BAE Systems, Ladbrokes, Rathbone Brothers, Reed Elsevier, Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Kingfisher and Sports Direct International. Do it yourself retailer Kingfisher will be giving a sales update covering the fourth quar
16 Feb 11 15:53Retailers are among the main fallers after some weekly sales figures from unquoted retailer John Lewis. Next, Marks & Spencer, Kingfisher and Burberry are all lower after underwhelming sales figures from the John Lewis. There was a 1% rise in sales in the week to February 5 from the same period l
11 Feb 11 14:13Hotel and restaurant owner Whitbread has brought in the boss of Kingfisher as a non-executive director to replace Philip Clarke who's leaving to run Tesco. Ian Cheshire joins the board of the Costa Coffee and Premier Inn firm at the beginning of February, a month before Clarke takes over from Sir T
27 Jan 11 17:30Mining shares are rising today with Fresnillo the biggest mover after Citigroup published a positive note on the sector. Randgold Resources was upgraded from neutral to overweight by HSBC. Satellite broadcaster BSkyB reported a strong rise in profits in the six months to December 2010. Pre-tax p
27 Jan 11 13:20It was a quiet the markets on the last full day of trading before Christmas, but the top share index's attempt to inch past the 6,000 point mark proved an exciting spectacle. A final push ensured that symbolically important feat was achieved, but FTSE 100 closed just below that level, last seen in
23 Dec 10 16:37Footsie's assault on 6,000 has run out of steam and the blue-chip index is now barely holding on to gains. Mortgage lending fell to a 20-month low in November new figures from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) show, underlining the weakness the housing market is currently experiencing. Oil pr
23 Dec 10 14:24Retailers are recovering on hopes that the last two days trading before Christmas could be a bumper time in the high street. Kingfisher and Next have recovered a portion of their losses earlier in the weak. Chip designer ARM has been hit by profit taking. Miners are also slipping back with Xstrat
23 Dec 10 12:36Domestic economic data has failed to jolt the top share index into life, but a raft of data from the US could trigger a move above 6,000 points later this afternoon. Mortgage lending fell to a 20-month low in November new figures from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) show, underlining the wea
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