Marks & Spencer Share News (MKS)

Thursday newspaper share tips: Dixons Carphone, Serco

(ShareCast News) - Dixons Carphone's drive to close its weakest stores helped its comparable-stores sales growth in the April quarter, but there is much more to its success, writes the Financial Times' Lex column. The mobiles, appliances and computers purveyor posted April-quarter comparable-store s

Thursday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - Great Portland States: Jefferies downgrades to underperform with a 650p target. Electrocomponents: RBC upgrates to sector perform with a 270p target. Marks & Spencer: Jefferies downgrades to underperform with a target price of 300p, Exane BNP Paribas downgrades to underperform wi

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BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Jefferies And Exane BNP Downgrade M&S

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Resource Stocks Support Flat FTSE 100

BUZZ-Marks and Spencer: Brokers cut ratings after turnaround plan

** Retailer Marks and Spencer's shares down 0.9 pct, vs a marginally higher FTSE, as brokerages cut ratings, PTs on stock a day after CEO Rowe unveiled turnaround plan ** Jefferies, Exane BNP Paribas cut rating to "underperform", at least five other brokerages cut PT ** Shares fell 10

LONDON BRIEFING: Investor Bramson Named CEO Of Electra Private Equity

Financials, big oil, miners pace gains in London

(ShareCast News) - Financials and big oil continued to power ahead at the middle of the week as the threat from two of the market´s most recent bugbears appeared to receed a little. On Wednesday, Athens managed to clinch a deal to relieve the government´s lack of financial liquidity, while in the UK

FTSE 100 movers: Financials, Big oil pace gains

(ShareCast News) - Financials were again to be found near the top of the leaderboard on Wednesday with shares of 'big oil' firms nipping at their heels. According to an opinion poll conducted for the Evening Standard by Opinium, voters in London said they were overwhelmingly in favour of the UK stay

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Banks Lead Gains As M&S Heads Opposite Way

Britain's FTSE climbs as banks, oil companies rise, M&S slumps

* Progress on Greek debt relief buoys European markets * FTSE at 1-month high, up 0.7 pct at close * M&S slumps after warning of short-term profit hit (Updates prices at close) By Kit Rees and Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index climbed o

UPDATE 4-New boss warns on profit as turns to "Mrs M&S" to revive clothing

* CEO Steve Rowe warns of short term profit hit * Says fixing clothing will take time * Says trading conditions difficult * Shares fall up to 10 pct (Adds detail, CEO, investor comments) By James Davey and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - A warning from Marks

Britain's FTSE climbs as banks and oil companies rise, M&S slumps

* Progress on Greek debt relief buoys European markets * FTSE near 1-month high, up 0.7 pct * M&S slumps after warning of short-term profit hit (Adds detail and updates prices) By Kit Rees and Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Britain's top shares index climbed

CMA accuses top model agencies of price fixing

(ShareCast News) - The Competition and Markets Authority has accused five modelling agencies of colluding to fix their prices. The competition watchdog said that between April 2013 and March 2015, FM Models, Models 1, Premier, Storm and Viva - used by big name high street and online retailers that c

UPDATE 3-New boss warns on profit as turns to "Mrs M&S" to revive clothing

* Rowe warns fixing clothing and homewares to hit profit * M&S sees similar sales trend this year as last * M&S full-year underlying pretax profit up 4.3 pct * Shares fall 8.9 pct to 405 pence (Adds CEO quotes, further reaction) By James Davey and Paul Sandle LONDO