(ShareCast News) - Shares in Northern Bear climbed nearly 6% on Monday after posting better-than-expected full-year results. Revenues in the company, which provides specialist building services to local authorities, rose 13.4% to £41.7m and pre-tax profits increased 6.3% to £1.86m, bringing earnings
Read moreShares in Northern Bear leapt nearly a third after the specialist building services group announced trading above hopes and plans to reinstate its dividend. The stock jumped 8.75p or 28.9% to 39p at 14:35 in London as the Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based group said it was doing better than expected after
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - AstraZeneca Monday rejected a final GBP69 billion takeover proposal from Pfizer Inc, potentially ending the US company's interest in its British rival for the time being.
Pfizer has pledged not to go direct to AstraZeneca's shareholders with
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday.
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EasyJet, up 1.5%, and International Consolidated Airlines Group, up 0.7%. The
LONDON (Alliance News) - Northern Bear PLC Monday said it plans to resume payment of a final dividend for the year ended March 31, after it traded ahead of management expectations during the recent year. The company, which acquires and operates mature building-services businesses based in t
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - UK shares have opened starkly mixed Monday, with the FTSE 100 dragged down by AstraZeneca, while the mid-cap FTSE 250 is higher.
AstraZeneca, down 13% at the open, rejected a final GBP69 billion takeover proposal from Pfizer Inc, potentially
The Finance Director of Xaar Group this week acquired an additional 4,610 shares, boosting his stake by around a tenth. Alex Bevis, who joined the company three years ago, spent 850.61p on each of the shares, spending a total of £39,213. His purchase comes just a week after the group cautioned t
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Northern Bear PLC Friday said Managing Director Graham Jennings bought 85,714 shares at a price of 35 pence per share Thursday. Following this transaction, Jennings holds 1.3 million shares, which represents 7.1% of the share capital. Shares in the building c
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