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On a quiet day on the company news front Footsie is flat, with banks advancing on hopes that new banking rules announced this weekend will be favourable, but miners falling back. Regulators are meeting this weekend to thrash out rules on banks' capital. Royal Bank of Scotland leads the sector on ho
Read moreLondon has opened flat with little sign of that changing after a lacklustre first hour. US shares tailed off towards the end of day on Wall Street and that has had some impact. Banks are still going well ahead of the new capital rules to be unveiled by BIS on Monday. Royal Bank of Scotland leads th
Read moreMorgan Sindall will today announce the acquisition of the bulk of Connaught's social housing repairs operations in a deal that will save thousands of jobs across the country. While the deal, believed to be worth between £20m and £40m, will secure the future of about 2,500 jobs, thousands more rema
Read moreInvestors were back in love with banks Thursday which, coupled with a big session for the miners, pushed the leading index to a new four-month high. The FTSE 100 finished not far off its best levels above 5,500. It was the first tim eit had traded above the big figure since May 4. British lenders
Read moreBanks are leading the Footsie's rise with Barclays and RBS topping the best performers. Lloyds is also boosted by the sale of its debt holding in housebuilder Crest Nicholson. Miners such as Xstrata and Vedanta are recovering even though metals prices are weak. Chip designer ARM continues to r
Read moreThe biggest British banks have commissioned a report that will profile the creditworthiness of their small business customers. The banks hope the report will head off criticism of their lack of lending. The banks argue that they are only turning away the risky proposals but small business organisa
Read moreThere are few risers in the Footsie as TUI Travel continues to head the fallers. Package holiday firm Thomas Cook followed up yesterday's disappointing trading statement by TUI with one of its own. Thomas Cook warned that full-year profits will be at the low end of forecasts due to softer UK booki
Read morePanmure Gordon is upgrading its earnings forecasts for Aviva after much better than expected interim results from the insurance giant last week. "On a market consistent embedded value (MCEV) operating profit basis we have increased 2010 forecast to £3,886m (+12%) from £3312m (-5%) driven by improve
Read moreLast week's results from Lloyds Banking Group showed the part-nationalised lender is making progress on all key issues, Nomura Securities believes. "Impairments and the margin/revenue improved more quickly, which should lead to upgrades. The capital and funding positions also improved," Nomura anal
Read moreThe Bank of England has warned Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland that they could face penalties from Brussels if there was an extension of the special funding scheme put in place during the financial crisis. The Bank believes that such an extension could break European Union state aid rules, becaus
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 moreEurope's main markets remain in the red in midday dealings as investors consider a mixed bag of results in the banking sector. Quarterly profits at Societe Generale beat analyst forecasts, climbing more than threefold, helped by a good performance of its French retail business. The Paris-based ban
Read moreEuropean shares slipped early on Wednesday after a number of the region's biggest banks updated the market on their recent performance. Quarterly profits at Societe Generale beat analyst forecasts, climbing more than threefold, helped by a good performance of its French retail business. The Paris
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
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