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From an investor perspective, there was an awful lot to like about Legal & General's results this time round. The company comfortably beat consensus forecasts on virtually every metric you'd care to look at, returning a pre-tax profit of £537m (against last time's £143m loss) and hiking the dividend
Read moreThe FTSE 100 briefly made it into positive territory in the afternoon session but that only lured out more sellers and the blue-chip index closed slightly down on the day. Shares in Next remained in the doghouse all day, not so much because of the performance in the first half of its financial yea
Read moreLeading share prices have come off the bottom but the FTSE 100 remains in arrears, following mixed news on the corporate front. Shares in Next are sharply lower. The fashion retailer has noticed a 'cooling' in consumers' demand in recent months, but still expects profits this year to rise by betwee
Read moreLondon has made a quiet start after a decline on Wall Street overnight and mixed trading statements this morning. Lloyds is very much back in the black after posting a profit of £1.6bn for the first half of 2010, twice as much as some analysts had forecast. The bank, which lost almost £4bn this tim
Read moreEarly losses look likely in London this morning as investors react to a decline on Wall Street overnight. Futures prices currently indicate a 22-point decline for the FTSE 100 when trading starts shortly. Lloyds is very much back in the black after posting a profit of £1.6bn for the first half of
Read moreInsurance giant Legal & General (L&G) topped market expectations with its interim figures and has rewarded shareholders with a 20% hike in the dividend. European Embedded Value (EEV) operating profit in the first half of 2010 was £589m, down from £656m the year before but ahead of most broker forec
Read moreThe UK government is showing a paper profit on its 41% stake in high street banking giant Lloyds and should have further cause for celebration when the bank unveils profits for the first half of the year on Wednesday. Expectations are for Lloyds to declare pre-tax profits in excess of £800m, a shar
Read moreBy Vladimir Guevarra Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Many of the U.K.'s top life insurance companies are expected over the next three weeks to report slightly higher first-half earnings and interim dividends, boosted by cuts in costs, a focus on margins and some recovery in sales
Read moreResults season for insurers and banks gets underway in the first week of August, with Legal & General, RSA Group, Aviva and Old Mutual from the former sector and HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Chartered, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland from the banking sector all set to weigh in. HSBC ge
Read moreBy Sarah Kent Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Dana Petroleum PLC's (DNX.LN) chief executive Thomas Cross has so far failed to convince shareholders to hold out for a better offer than the 1,800 pence-a-share approach put forward by Korea National Oil Corp., people familiar with t
Read moreLONDON (Dow Jones)--Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LLOY.LN) is in talks to sell GBP140 million of retail assets, the Mail on Sunday reports, without citing sources. It adds that Legal & General Property may buy the assets, but says other parties have also held talks over the assets sale. The 'LXB
Read moreWith the results season for insurers about to kick off now might be a good time to invest in Legal and General (L&G) and Aviva, suggests Nomura Securities, with both companies likely to report strong cash generation and earnings to support their handsome dividend yields. Nomura is forecasting that
Read moreWith the results season for insurers about to kick off now might be a good time to invest in Legal and General (L&G) and Aviva, suggests Nomura Securities, with both companies likely to report strong cash and earnings to support their handsome dividend yields. Nomura is forecasting that L&G will bu
Read moreBy Marietta Cauchi Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--London-based buyout firm Permira is interested in buying Vue Entertainment, the cinema chain that forms part of the assets sold earlier this week by Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LYG) to Coller Capital, a person familiar with the situ
Read more(Adds detail.) By Jason Douglas Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Fulcrum Utility Services Ltd. (FCRM.LN) Friday said it intends to use GBP11 million raised in its recent admission to London's junior Alternative Investment Market to boost its share of the market for connecting b
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