London Capital Group Holdings Share News (LCG)

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Pfizer Ups Bid For AstraZeneca, Pitches Cameron

LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened flat to slightly higher Friday, as pharmaceuticals and banks continue  at the forefront.

Pfizer confirmed that it has made an increased offer for AstraZeneca PLC of GBP50 per share, in cash and Pfizer shares. Pfize

London Capital Group Reports Wider Loss In 2013 On Costs, Impairments

LONDON (Alliance News) - London Capital Group Holdings PLC Tuesday said pretax losses widened in its recent financial year, as it incurred goodwill impairment, legal fees, and the costs of restructuring and changing its IT platform. Pretax profit widened to GBP4.8 million in 2013, compared

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Rathbone Brothers Acquires, Places Shares

LONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened mostly higher Tuesday, following through on a strong close in NY and dovish comments from the US Federal Reserve chair.

Rathbone Brothers has made waves early Tuesday, announcing two major acquisitions and a share placi

London Capital Group Swings To Profit Excluding Claims Hit

LONDON (Alliance News) - Online trading and spread betting company London Capital Group Holdings PLC Wednesday reported slightly higher revenues for the second half of 2013, and said it managed to swing to a pretax profit for the year as a whole excluding the payouts it is having to make for clai

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Shares Gain At Open; Sage, JD Wetherspoon Positive

LONDON (Alliance News) - Shares are broadly higher Wednesday ahead of UK employment data and a Bank of England policy statement at 0930 GMT.

Prior to the open FTSE 100 software developer Sage Group and FTSE 250 pub chain JD Wetherspoon both have pro

London Capital Group Finance Director Moynihan Steps Down, Whelton Appointed Interim

AIM IN BRIEF: Quindell And ValiRx Placings; Noricum Gold Positive Results

London Capital Group Settles Legal Proceedings

London Capital Group To Sell ProSpreads To Apostar Holdings For GBP1.5M

London Capital Group Loses Tradefair Spreads White Label Contract

London Capital Group CEO resigns

The Chief Executive of London Capital Group has resigned just six months into the job. The online spread betting company said Mark Slade, who only took the reins in February, was leaving for personal reasons. He has been replaced by Kevin Ashby who recently joined the company as Chief Commercial of

STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-UK small caps underperform blue-chips

The FTSE Small Caps Index is flat in mid-session trading, while the FTSE Aim All Share Index edges 0.1 percent higher. Both small-cap indexes underperform a 0.3 percent rise on the blue-chip FTSE 100, although they outperform a 0.1 percent fall on the mid-cap FTSE 250 index. Plant Imp

London Capital Group expects rise in half year profits

Financial services and online spread betting company, London Capital Group, expects half-year profits to rise as a result of improved market conditions. The group anticipates adjusted pre-tax profits of £3.1m for the six months to end of June, compared to £2.1m for the same period last year and a l

Melrose director increases stake after positive update

A round-up of the biggest director deals today so far Miles Templeman, Senior Non-Executive Director of Melrose Industries, the FTSE 100 industrial conglomerate, has added £152,400-worth of shares to his stake in the company one day after it reported revenue was one per cent ahead in the year-to-da

MOVES-Lazard, UBS, Aviva Investors, U.S. Bancorp, Carlyle, Manulife

May 2 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday. To inform us of other job changes, email to moves@thomsonreuters.com. LAZARD LTD The financial advisory and asset management company said it hired former J.P. Morgan Chase & Co investm