By This Is Money Reporters PUBLISHED: 03:31 EST, 13 January 2014 | UPDATED: 06:51 EST, 13 January 2014 11.50: The Footsie’s earlier gains had evaporated by lunchtime as traders nervously looked ahead to the start of trading today in New York following Friday’s mixed US jobs reports which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average end Read More
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* FTSE 100 up 0.1 pct * Financials give biggest boost to index * Barclays (LSE: BARC.L – news) seen key UK winner from regulation easing -ShoreCap By Toni Vorobyova LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Britain’s FTSE 100 share index edged up towards two-month highs on Monday, supported by a rally in heavyweight financials after Read More
By Toni Vorobyova LONDON (Reuters) – The FTSE 100 share index edged up towards two-month highs on Monday, supported by a rally in heavyweight financials after regulators agreed to ease a new rule on how banks’ leverage ratios are calculated. The regulators agreed on Sunday that banks will be able to include derivatives on a Read More
Could 2014 be the best year for UK equities since 2009, when the FTSE 100 (UKX) index posted a gain of a little over 22%? Analysts at Citigroup think so: they expect the blue-chip index to hit 7500 by the middle of 2014, and to break through the 8000 barrier by the year end. That Read More
The FTSE 100 Index rose 48.6 points to 6739.9 in the last session of the first full week of new year trading. Shares climbed in spite of a disappointing gain of just 74,000 US jobs in December, sharply below the average of 214,000 seen in the previous four months, and the lowest number in three Read More
* FTSE 100 up 0.9 pct, rebounding from previous session’s losses * Chatter of +200,000 jobs added last month helps market * Tullow Oil (LSE: TLW.L – news) lifted by bid speculation By Alistair Smout LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index rebounded from the previous session’s losses on Friday amid talk that Read More
The FTSE 100 Index rose 48.6 points to 6739.9 in the last session of the first full week of new year trading. Shares climbed in spite of a disappointing gain of just 74,000 US jobs in December, sharply below the average of 214,000 seen in the previous four months, and the lowest number in three Read More
By This Is Money Reporters PUBLISHED: 03:41 EST, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 10 January 2014 15.30 (CLOSE): A shock slowdown in US jobs growth and a double dose of economic setbacks in the UK failed to halt the progress of London’s blue-chip shares. The FTSE 100 Index rose 48.6 points to 6739.9 Read More
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index closed firmer on Friday, though off the session’s best, after disappointing U.S. jobs data knocked the index back from its highest levels since early November. The FTSE 100 touched a 2014 high at 6,769.94, just before the report on nonfarm payrolls showed U.S. employers hired Read More
* FTSE 100 up 0.5 pct, rebounding from previous session’s losses * Tullow Oil (LSE: TLW.L – news) lifted by bid speculation By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index rose on Friday, rebounding from losses in the previous session as bid speculation boosted Tullow Oil. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index Read More