Tue, 13th Dec 2016 13:12
* Companies enter into exclusive merger talks for 60 days * HDFC Life puts IPO plan on hold, deal to give automatic listing (Recasts with executive comments, details) By Devidutta Tripathy MUMBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - India's HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd has begun talks
Read more(ShareCast News) - Standard Life said its 35%-owned HDFC Standard Life Insurance was in talks with Max Financial Services to look at a possible merger of their insurance units. HDFC is India's largest mortgage lender. Max Financial Services runs Max Life.
Read more(ShareCast News) - The latest Brexit poll results sent traders scurrying for cover as they revealed another small lurch towards the UK leaving the European Union on 23 June. Although most analysts appeared wary of trusting the results of polls, especially those of the on-line variety, on Monday book
Read more(ShareCast News) - A renewed move lower in government bond yields across the globe weighed on financials, especially UK-listed life insurers, which some analysts believed were the most exposed sector of UK equity market to falling market interest rates in the US. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U
Read more(ShareCast News) - Car dealer Vertu Motors has had a "Buy" opinion placed on it by the Telegraph's Questor column, which cites likely improvements to next year's results and broker upgrades after news of a recent deal. The Gateshead-based outfit said on Wednesday that it had nabbed five car deale
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