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FTSE 100 Movers: BP rises on settlement

Mon, 17th Oct 2011 12:47

BP was rising high after reaching a settlement with its US counterpart Anadarko over the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion at the Macondo asset in the Gulf of Mexico.Anadarko will pay BP $4bn in a single cash payment, which will go into the $20bn trust fund BP set up to meet individual, business and government claims relating to the tragic incident, as well as the cost of the natural resource damages. Sticking with BP, engineering and project management services (EPMS) firm AMEC has been awarded a £150m contract to provide EPMS for a "giant" Shetland oil field, operated by oil titan BP.The work, which is already underway, is for the main platform design for Clair Ridge, the second phase of the Clair oil field, west of the islands.Security solutions giant G4S dived almost 20% lower after announcing plans to create the world's largest security and facilities services group with the huge £5.2bn purchase of ISS.ISS, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, has more than 520,000 employees and provides Facilities Management, Cleaning, Support, Property, Catering and Securities services. The acquisition is being part-funded by a heavily discounted rights issue.Mining colossus Rio Tinto is firmer after it announced a reorganisation of its Aluminium product group that will include the sale of 13 assets at some point in the future.Shares in insurance group Aviva were also higher, helped by an upgrade by UBS, which raised its rating on the stock from neutral to buy. Schroders was also rising despite a downgrade from UBS from buy to neutral. FTSE 100 - RisersBP (BP.) 435.00p +4.47%Essar Energy (ESSR) 290.50p +3.01%Man Group (EMG) 162.20p +2.92%Amec (AMEC) 882.50p +2.50%Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) 24.78p +2.14%Standard Chartered (STAN) 1,445.50p +1.90%Aviva (AV.) 345.40p +1.89%Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.) 520.00p +1.76%Rio Tinto (RIO) 3,400.50p +1.64%Schroders (Non-Voting) (SDRC) 1,164.00p +1.48%FTSE 100 - FallersG4S (GFS) 227.80p -19.31%Serco Group (SRP) 500.50p -3.00%GKN (GKN) 193.60p -2.02%ITV (ITV) 63.90p -1.62%Shire Plc (SHP) 2,030.00p -1.55%Reed Elsevier (REL) 527.00p -1.50%Ashmore Group (ASHM) 323.60p -1.28%Fresnillo (FRES) 1,639.00p -1.27%Unilever (ULVR) 2,083.00p -1.23%Glencore International (GLEN) 417.45p -1.20%NR
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FTSE 100 movers: Insurers please market

Strong results from insurers are offsetting disappointing figures from other Footsie companies. Aviva reported a better-than-expected 21% rise in its half-year profit, while RSA Insurance Group announced revenue growth in all geographic regions and a 'resilient underwriting result' in what was a t

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1 Jul 2010 13:57

FTSE 100 movers: Investment managers decline

Footsie remains lower with financials heading the losers. This is because of concerns of a slow-down at Barclays Capital (BarCap) investment management arm. Barclays said BarCap had seen weaker trading conditions in the past two months. Schroders and Investec are also well down on the back of this

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6 May 2010 15:33

FTSE 100 movers: Banks lead market down

Banks are leading Footsie downwards after ratings agency Moody's warned that the UK lenders are "at risk of Greek contagion". Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, HSBC and even Asia-focused Standard Chartered fell sharply after Moody's said banks in the UK, as well as in Ireland, Italy, Portu

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1 Apr 2010 11:20

Home Retail boss opens Hammerson account

Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos and Homebase owner Home Retail Group, has opened his account at Hammerson having joined the board of the shopping centre operator in December. He took 20,000 shares at 394p a time in his first purchase of shares in the company, paying a total of £78,800. In a

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10 Mar 2010 16:19

FTSE 100 movers: Footsie ahead despite ex-dividends

Resources companies and banks are heading the risers on the Footsie, while the forward momentum has been held back by a raft of companies going ex-dividend. Rising copper prices have boosted the shares of Fresnillo, Eurasian Natural Resources and Xstrata. RBS upgraded oil services provider Petro

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4 Mar 2010 16:05

FTSE 100 movers: Results dominate index

A mixed bag of results dominate the main movers in the Footsie. The bright spot was fund manager Schroders. Net new business inflows jumped to £15bn in 2009 compared with net outflows of £9.6bn in 2008, while funds under management ended the year at £148.4bn versus £110.2bn a year earlier. Total p

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17 Nov 2009 15:51

Schroders executives pocket option gains

Two executive directors of asset manager Schroders have taken up options and sold most of them for large profits. Chief executive Michael Dobson took up options over 1,802,033 non-voting shares, of which 906,285 were at nil cost and the rest at prices of 705p, 483p and 398p a share. The total cost

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29 Jul 2009 11:32

FTSE 100 movers: Schroders leads the pack

Fund manager Schroders leads the FTSE 100 higher after saying it is seeing strong demand for its European corporate bond product, prompting Morgan Stanley to upgrade the stock. Rexam is the heaviest faller. The packaging giant's well -flagged right issue has been launched with the firm looking to r

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24 Jul 2009 17:13

London close: Ten out of ten for Footsie

The FTSE 100 index made it ten days of rises in a row, despite tailing off towards the close as investors looked to bank profits ahead of the week-end. It capped the best rally by the blue-chip index in five years. The rise was achieved despite dismal gross domestic product data. UK output contract

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24 Jul 2009 14:11

London afternoon: Financials find favour

Footsie eased back a little over the lunchtime session but thanks to firm financials the blue-chip index continues to shrug off this morning's gloomy data on gross domestic product (GDP). UK output contracted 0.8% between April and June after a 2.4% decline in the first quarter, according to the Of

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