London close: Stocks turn sour in afternoon trading
(Sharecast News) - London's markets turned lower on Friday afternoon, concluding a volatile week on a negative note.
Read moreWed, 05th May 2021 11:02
(Sharecast News) - London's markets turned lower on Friday afternoon, concluding a volatile week on a negative note.
Read more(Alliance News) - Barclays PLC has promised to stop directly financing energy clients' new oil and gas projects as part of updates to its climate change strategy.
Read more(Alliance News) - European stock markets were quiet heading into Friday afternoon, as investors eye the annual US consumer price index benchmarks revisions.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London lacked direction on Friday, after Barclays announced plans to buy the retail banking business of Tesco Bank.
Read more(Alliance News) - Barclays PLC and Tesco PLC on Friday announced an agreement for Barclays to buy the retail banking business of Tesco Bank, as the big UK supermarkets scale back their forays into financial services.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are called to open higher on Friday, closing off a busy corporate week.
Read more(Sharecast News) - UK supermarket giant Tesco has sold its most of its retail banking business to Barclays for £600m, the two companies said on Friday.
Read more(Alliance News) - UK consumers continued to hunt for deals during their supermarket shopping in January, numbers from Kantar on Tuesday showed, but more limited promotional activity meant price inflation only eased slightly.
Read more(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened higher on Tuesday, after new data showed that UK grocery price inflation eased in January.
Read more(Sharecast News) - London's financial markets closed positively on Friday, as investors were buoyed by an optimistic consumer confidence survey and a lower-than-anticipated inflation reading from across the pond.
Read more(Sharecast News) - Tesco and Sainsbury's were in the red on Friday after JPMorgan Cazenove cut its price targets on the shares, saying it remains cautious on the UK grocery space fundamentally, which based on its investor feedback "appears still to be a contrarian stance".
Read more(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Friday morning and Thursday:
Read more(Alliance News) - Staffline Group PLC on Tuesday said underlying operating profit fell in line with market expectations in 2023 as it aimed to "deliver progress into 2024" despite headwinds.
Read moreLONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The pound sagged and UK government bond prices rose on Friday, after a shock drop in British consumer spending in December raised the risk of recession, putting a stop to the currency's recent gains.
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