Wednesday broker round-up
(Sharecast News) - Biffa: Peel Hunt downgrades to add with a target price of 260p.
Read more(Sharecast News) - Biffa: Peel Hunt downgrades to add with a target price of 260p.
Read more(Sharecast News) - Domino's Pizza Group: Peel Hunt upgrades to buy with a target price of 300p.
Read more(Sharecast News) - National Express Group: Liberum upgrades to buy with a target price of 470p.
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - The following UK shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:
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FTSE 100
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BARCLAYS RAISES RSA TO 'OVERWEIGHT' ('EQUAL WEIGHT') - TARGET 538 (102) PENCE
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SOCGEN CUTS ROLLS-ROYCE TO '
LONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources PLC Monday said it has agreed an unsecured GBP50,000 financing facility with shareholder Apex Utilities Ltd in a deal to provide working capital funding, as the investing company deliberates on plans for a reverse takeover. In a statement, Paragon
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources PLC Wednesday said its shares have been temporarily suspended from trading on AIM, while it is in active negotiations and is undertaking due diligence on certain proposals, which if successful, would constitute a reverse takeover. In a trading stat
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is expected Wednesday to again hail the country's continuing economic recovery whilst reiterating that yet more needs to be done to ensure it is sustained.
In his annual budget speech, which starts at 1230 GMT,
LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.
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FTSE 100 - WINNERS
Barclays, up 2.9%. The bank plans to solicit offers for its index busi
LONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources PLC Wednesday said it has raised GBP45,000 via a draw down on its Equity Financing Facility with Darwin Strategic Ltd, but added that if it doesn't make an acquisition soon its shares could be cancelled. The AIM-listed agriculture investing company
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources PLC Monday said it has raised GBP12,000 by drawing down its equity financing facility. In a statement, the company said it had issued 1.2 million shares to Darwin Strategic Ltd at 0.2910 pence a share for the drawdown. It said it had also iss
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - RSA Insurance is leading the FTSE 100 lower Monday after the struggling insurer confirmed it is considering a number of measures to bolster its balance sheet, while HSBC Holdings is also down after its results missed market forecasts.<
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources OKC Monday said it has acquired an initial 10% stake in Paragon Volta Ltd and is in the process of finalising for PVL a sub lease over 5,000 hectares of irrigable land close to the River Volta in Ghana. PVL was established by Vijay Thakrar, who hol
Read moreLONDON (Alliance News) - Paragon Resources PLC Thursday said Chief Executive Officer Andrew Beveridge bought 4.2 million shares at a price of 0.24 pence per share. Following this transaction, Beveridge has an interest in 45.9 million shares held in Paragon, which represents 10.52% stake in
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