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UK's FTSE 100 ends flat as BOJ sparks rate worries, higher on the week

AstraZeneca boosts pharma index to one-month high

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LONDON MARKET CLOSE: FTSE 100 flat as DAX surges to record high

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 tread water on Friday, after a trio of central bank decisions, and as focus turns to the Bank of England next week and the US jobs report.

At Europe's big banks, women make some gains despite Rose exit

ZURICH, July 28 (Reuters) - Alison Rose's resignation from NatWest leaves just one woman in charge of a major western European bank, highlighting an acute gender imbalance that persists across the sector despite pledges to increase female representation.

LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: FTSE 100 treads water on blue chip earnings

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were mixed at midday on Friday, after a busy week of earnings comes to an end.

LONDON MARKET OPEN: StanChart, AstraZeneca lift FTSE 100 into green

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened higher on Friday, boosted by a mostly strong set of company earnings, while investors weighed recent central bank decisions.

LONDON BRIEFING: NatWest posts interim growth; IAG swings to profit

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are called slightly lower on Friday, with investors having plenty to consider amid the week's swathe of corporate earnings and central bank decisions.

Standard Chartered unveils $1bn buyback as first-half profit beats estimates

(Sharecast News) - Standard Chartered lifted annual guidance and launched a $1bn share buyback after first-half profits rose 20% on the back of soaring interest rates.

TOP NEWS: StanChart sets new USD1 billion buyback on strong results

(Alliance News) - Standard Chartered PLC on Friday launched a new USD1 billion share buyback programme, as it reported a 20% rise in profit in the first half of 2023 and raised its guidance for the full year.

Coutts CEO Flavel latest to quit at NatWest over Farage debacle

LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - British bank NatWest said on Thursday the CEO of its private bank Coutts, Peter Flavel, will step down, after he took "ultimate responsibility" for mishandling the closure of former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage's bank accounts.

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: JPMorgan cuts Spectris; Berenberg likes Victrex

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Monday morning:

Saudi Arabia's Almarai plans dollar sukuk

DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian food and beverage company Almarai has hired banks to arrange a sale of U.S. dollar-denominated Islamic bonds, an investor presentation showed on Monday.

CORRECTED (OFFICIAL)-StanChart to sell five sub-Saharan Africa businesses to Access Bank

DUBAI, July 14 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered said on Friday it has reached an agreement to sell its subsidiaries in five sub-Saharan African countries to Nigeria's Access Bank, putting into motion a plan announced last year to divest those businesses.

Bank of England stress test finds top 8 UK banks have enough capital

LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - Britain's eight largest lenders have enough capital to ride out a worse economic crisis than that seen in 2008, the Bank of England (BoE) said on Wednesday, as the sector faces sharply rising interest rates pummelling consumers and businesses.

TOP NEWS: Major UK banks "resilient" in BofE's annual stress test

(Alliance News) - The Bank of England on Wednesday said the major UK banks were "resilient to a severe stress scenario", in its latest cyclical stress test results, with all eight surveyed lenders passing.