

(Alliance News) - Stocks soared on Wednesday on renewed hopes a peace deal could be struck between the US and Iran to end the Middle East war.


(Alliance News) - The following are the leading risers and fallers among FTSE 100 and 250 index constituents on Wednesday.


The top share index finished flat after a sluggish day's trading. Takeover talk pushed the price of engineering stalwarts Weir Group and Invensys hi...


Mining stocks are buoyant after China's economy grew 9.8% in the final quarter of 2010, but demand for miners has not prevented the blue-chip index fr...


Utility services group Telecom Plus expects full year profits to be ahead of market expectations, despite December's severe weather conditions resulti...


UBS thinks risk aversion has seen the shares of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) underperform, but reckons the market might have overreacted to the b...


Broker finnCap sees rising gas prices coupled with a cold winter leading to improved margins at Telecom Plus, despite the group's interim performance ...


Shares in Intellego jumped after the training consultancy group said it had made a good start with its trial programme providing financial services pr...


Social housing repairs and maintenance group, Mears, has paid £2.7m for Jackson Lloyd (JL), which mends houses in the North West. JL has an order boo...


Utility and telecoms supplier Telecoms Plus expects half year earnings and pre-tax profits will be significantly ahead of last year, though it only in...