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LONDON BRIEFING: Broker Upgrades Lift BAE, Whitbread And Sage

Standard Life Investments To Vote Against Royal Dutch Shell-BG Deal

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Barclays Upgrades Tesco To Overweight

Thursday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - Anglo American: Nomura slashes target from 780p to 370p but reiterates reduce. Royal Mail: Morgan Stanley stays at buy with 420p target price. Enquest: Canaccord Genuity lowers target from 30p to 25p but keeps at hold. Entertainment One: JP Morgan reiterates overweigh and nudges

UK life insurers set to catch up next year, Nomura says

(ShareCast News) - Shares in UK life insurers will catch-up with their European peers next year after underperforming in 2014, as Solvency II proved to be a more acute headwind for them, Nomura told clients on Thursday. Yet developments for them had generally been better than expected for them, so c

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Goldman Says Sell BAT, Lowers Imperial Tobacco

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: OPEC-Hit Oil Prices Wipe Out UK Stock Gains

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: US Stocks To Add Gains On Economic Confidence

BUZZ-UK Insurers: BoE's green light for capital models lifts stocks

** British insurers up after BoE on Saturday approves their capital calculation models, enabling them to lower costs under new rules ** BoE's nod means the insurers can use internal models to determine how much capital they hold to ensure they can meet policyholder commitments under EU Solv

Bank Of England Approves Solvency II Models For 19 UK Insurers

UPDATE 2-Bank of England approves capital models for 19 UK insurers

* BoE approves 19 internal models * Includes top two insurers Aviva, Prudential * Some insurers applying for later approval * Insurers haven't yet released solvency ratios (Adds BoE, Aviva quotes, detail) By Carolyn Cohn LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - British insurers A

Bank of England approves capital models for 19 UK insurers

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Britain's top two insurers Aviva and Prudential along with the Lloyd's of London insurance market were among the 19 firms whose capital calculation models the Bank of England approved on Saturday. Approval means the named insurers can use in-house internal models

London Stock Exchange Puts Former Standard Life Chief Nish On Board

BoE to name UK insurers that can use models to calculate capital

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Bank of England will tell Britain's insurers on Saturday whether the models they use under new European Union rules to calculate their capital requirements have been approved. The "Solvency II" rules allow insurers to use in-house models from January to determi

UPDATE 1-India's ICICI to sell $296 mln stake in life unit to Temasek, Premji

* Premji Invest to buy 4 pct, Temasek to take 2 pct * Deals value ICICI Pru Life at 325 bln rupees * Indian insurers seen raising PE money ahead of IPOs (Adds details, context) MUMBAI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - ICICI Bank, India's biggest private sector lender by assets, will sell a