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Banking Group shareholders will gather in Birmingham on Thursday to decide whether to give it the green light for a further capital raising exercise and approve a £13.5 billion rights issue. Banking shares are among the stock most widely held by small...
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Tuesday last week, while America's index of its biggest companies, the S&P 500, slumped by 1.6 per cent in the past four days. Friday amid fears that Britain's biggest travel firms, Thomas Cook and Tui, which have performed strongly in recent times, may...
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The firm delivers back office administration and front office customer contact services to private and public sector bodies in the UK and Ireland. IT system for the Criminal Records Bureau and managing TV licensing for the BBC. Capita has grown its turnover...
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645.5p (+5.5p) National Grid prides itself on a highly risk-averse business model, and yesterday's half-year results go some way to vindicating the strategy. The group's underlying pre-tax profits are up by 16 per cent to £649m, despite recession-hit...
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It has long been tipped as a predator for Durex maker SSL International , up 18p at 684.5p today. But other suggestions included a merger with US group Colgate Palmolive, which released a standard "no comment on market rumours" statement after a near...
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730p (+18.5p) It always comes as something of a surprise that Close Brothers still exists, at least as an independent entity. It has marched to the top of the hill with takeover talks before, only to march back down again, and remains one of the last...
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A UBS analyst said Wednesday that medical technology stocks are trading at attractive prices, and raised his ratings or price targets on nine of them. Analyst Bruce Nudell upgraded shares of medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. and orthopedic...
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In fact, people often think they're an essential for newcomers, to minimise their risk until they gain a bit of experience of investing. And on the face of it, it's easy to see the attraction. First though, what is a stop-loss? Suppose you buy some...
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Everyone noticed when Warren Buffett took a big stake in Pier 1 Imports. And an investor from Iceland caused quite a stir when he made a play for the retailer a few years later. But an unknown Greek family has been flying under the radar and steadily...
Tags: Maria Konstantinu, million share, Pier, Iceland, Reykjavík, Temasek Holdings' investments, Short, Stock market, Stock, Share price, Business Finance
Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Not bad. We'll assume the 20% growth trend continues, giving us 2014 earnings of about $14.50 per share. Now let's say everything goes according to plan (which rarely happens), and by 2014, Intuitive Surgical...
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