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SDRCFri, 09th May 2014 16:14
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
Read moreFootsie 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
Read moreBanks 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
Read moreTerry 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
Read moreResources 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
Read moreA 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
Read moreTwo 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
Read moreFund 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreFootsie 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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