LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Vodafone Group said Mathias Dopfner, chairman and chief executive of German media group Axel Springer, would join its board as a non-executive director. Vodafone chairman Gerard Kleisterlee said Dopfner had led his business through "a highly successful transitio
Read moreBy Eric Auchard FRANKFURT, March 30 (Reuters) - Britain's Interoute, a high-capacity data network and corporate cloud services provider, is taking on new private equity investors to fund acquisitions across Europe and the United States, the company said on Monday. Aleph Capital Partne
Read moreCarnival topped the risers as strong first-quarter results prompted a lift in full year earnings guidance. It boasted that advance bookings for the remainder of 2015 were steaming ahead of the prior year and at higher prices. "We are experiencing an on-going improvement in underlying fundamentals ba
Read moreShire has had its target price lifted by UBS from 5,400p to 6,600p as the Swiss bank highlighted three potential blockbuster products at the pharmaceutical group. A 'buy' rating was maintained. The bank played down recent concerns that Shire overpaid earlier this year when it $5.2bn for US biotech g
Read moreJP Morgan Cazenove has maintained an 'overweight' stance on Vodafone after results from an Indian spectrum auction this week came in better than many had expected. "After 19 days, and 115 rounds of bidding, the Indian spectrum auction has concluded. Interestingly the results seem much more favourabl
Read more** Vodafone up 1 pct, bucking a weaker trend on the broader market, after spends 2.8 bln pounds ($4.12 bln) in an Indian govt auction of airwaves ** One broker says amount allays worst fears of $5 bln ** Reflects confidence in potential for data traffic in world's fastest growing smar
Read moreLondon's blue chips were set for a subdued start on Friday as investors pause for breath following a sell-off the previous session. City sources predict the FTSE 100 will open broadly flat on Thursday's close of 6,895.33 after dropping 1.4%. The index has fallen for the last three sessions after hi
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