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Stocks had looked like making a decent start to the week, but a dramatic and sudden sell-off on Wall Street quickly sent London into the red. The Dow Jones turned an early three-digit gain into a 100-point loss as US analyst Dick Bove downgraded Fifth Third Bancorp, SunTrust Banks and US Bancorp.
26 Oct 09 16:21After crawling higher throughout the morning session London's leading shares received a boost from a firm start on Wall Street. The market is buoyant despite weakness in the banking sector, where the market is holding its breath for the anticipated cash call by Lloyds Banking. Elsewhere in the sect
26 Oct 09 14:20British Airways is one of today's main fallers. The carrier's cabin crew will get a chance to decide whether to strike in a row over new contracts, the Unite union said today. Talks between BA and the union, which has 14,000 members at the carrier, ran through the summer, but broke down last week.
26 Oct 09 13:03Dutch banking group ING is to launch a massive rights issue and is splitting itself in two to enable it to pay back government bail-out funds. The group, which received a €10bn hand-out from the Dutch government last year, is to raise €7.5bn through a right issue, and said it intends to raise more
26 Oct 09 08:08Bradford & Bingley is to divide its £50 billion balance sheet into "good" and "bad" assets in an exercise that echoes similar plans at Northern Rock. B&B, which was broken up and partly nationalised a year ago, is looking for attractive assets that it can sell to private buyers, says the Times. The
26 Oct 09 06:25Lloyds will announce within days a controversial £23bn fundraising that will bolster its balance sheet and finally repair the damage caused by its disastrous takeover of rival HBOS, according to the Sunday Times. Stagecoach is putting the final touches to bank financing ready to launch a takeover b
25 Oct 09 11:42Plans to slice Northern Rock into good and bad assets have been delayed by two months, even though the European Commission is on the brink of approving the break-up and private sale of the lender. The Treasury had hoped to carve up the bank by the end of October in a move that would have enabled it
23 Oct 09 06:08Blue chips rallied late in the day, but it was a tough session generally with miners and insurance companies under pressure. Telcos led the rally with Vodafone, British Telecom and satellite group Inmarsat all making gains near the close. Lloyds was also a late riser as on reports that it is close
22 Oct 09 16:41Lloyds Banking Group is one of the main risers on a tough day of blue chips after a report it is is close to securing backing for a cash call that involves the Qatar Investment Authority. Lloyds is planning to launch a rights issue and refinancing next week provided it can persuade regulators and t
22 Oct 09 10:26There was no shortage of company news to give Footsie direction but it was the release of housing data in the US that ultimately dragged the leading share index into the red. Housing starts increased to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 590,000 last month, up 0.5% above a revised 587,000 in Oct
20 Oct 09 16:50Footsie is struggling to find any sense of direction despite some big movements in individual companies' share prices. Fast growing software company Autonomy is finding the market hard to please. Despite another spell of strong organic growth in the third quarter, the shares are the worst performer
20 Oct 09 14:19Footsie made a valiant effort to finish the morning in the blue but came up just short, thanks largely to the weakness of financial stocks. Barclays is sharply lower, after Qatar's sovereign wealth fund said it was selling half of the warrants it holds in the bank. Qatar Holding is selling 379.22
20 Oct 09 12:04Excitement in the US over better than expected third quarter results from iPhone giant Apple has not crossed the Atlantic with UK blue chips struggling to make headway. Banks are proving a drag. Barclays is lower, seemingly on the news that its president Bob Diamond has turned down the chance to be
20 Oct 09 08:38Better than expected third quarter results from consumer electronics company Apple after the close of the US market yesterday has juiced London this morning with traders expecting the FTSE 100 index to open up around 8 points higher at 5,290. Education group and FT publisher Pearson has upped its e
20 Oct 09 07:46Lloyds Banking has continued to divest its peripheral businesses with the sale of the Bank of Scotland Portfolio Management Service and two other private client businesses to Rathbone Brothers for £35.4m. The sale follows a detailed review of the group's private client activities, which concluded t
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