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Price: 2,962.00 Chg: 240.00 Chg %: 8.82% Date: 17:15 Price: 6,674.74 Chg: -7.02 Chg %: -0.11% Date: 17:10 – FTSE closes down 7.02 points at 6,674.74 – Focus turns to Apple and Facebook earnings – UK public sector net borrowing falls techMARK 2,742.15 +0.13% FTSE 100 6,674.74 -0.11% FTSE 250 15,989.64 -0.58% The FTSE 100 Read More

LONDON (ShareCast) – Worldwide Healthcare Trust and Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LSE: HIK.L – news) tracked their FTSE 100 peers higher after AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN – news) gained strongly on the back of takeover speculation, Shire (LSE: SHP.L – news) rose following broker comment, and GSK also jumped after announcing a massive three-part deal with Swiss pharmaceuticals Read More

Britain’s benchmark FTSE 100 index needs more evidence of growth in corporate profits to break out of its recent trading range and challenge record highs of around 7,000 points, says Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) fund manager Richard Buxton. “We’re churning around in a trading range of 6,200 to 6,800,” says Buxton, who is head Read More

LONDON (ShareCast) – – FTSE closes up 56.51 points at 6,681.76 – Easter weekend retail sales disappoint – Monthly US existing home sales down 0.4 per cent techMARK 2,738.48 +2.18% FTSE 100 6,681.76 +0.85% FTSE 250 16,082.24 +1.10% The FTSE 100 closed on an upbeat note today, having touched 6,700 earlier in the session as Read More

By This Is Money Reporters Published: 03:00 EST, 23 April 2014 | Updated: 09:44 EST, 23 April 2014 15.00: The Footsie stayed modestly lower in mid afternoon trading, consolidating after strong gains in the previous session as US stocks also made cautious early progress today. With an hour and a half of trading to go, Read More

* FTSE 100 down 0.2 percent, still near two-week high * ABF surges after posting higher profits * Bid speculation lifts AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN – news) for second day * Ex-divs knock 8.7 points off index By Tricia Wright LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – Strength in Associated British Foods on U.S. growth prospects and in Read More

By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) – A rise in the share prices of Associated British Foods and drugmaker AstraZeneca buoyed Britain’s top equity index on Wednesday, leaving the market near a two-week high. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index edged up by 0.1 percent, or 3.61 points, to 6,685.37 points in early session trading. Clothing and Read More

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) – The following FTSE 100 companies will go ex-dividend on Wednesday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the latest dividend payout. According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, the effect of the resulting adjustment to prices by market-makers would take 8.69 points off the index. COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND Read More

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(Reuters) – British Business Secretary Vince Cable on Tuesday warned banks and other major companies to rein in excessive executive pay or face tighter rules, in a letter aimed at Barclays (LSE:BARC) and other FTSE 100 companies ahead of their annual general meetings. In a letter to companies listed on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index Read More