Week Ahead: BP and Shell In Clash of the Titans

9 years ago0330 BP & Shell are both issuing interims on Tuesday - about as likely as Taylor Swift and Katy Perry performing a duet together. If their web sites are to be believed, oil colossi BP and Shell will both release results on Tuesday. This happens about as often as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones issued singles in the same week...

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Time Warner and Mega-Mergers Do Not Have a Good Track Record

9 years ago0327 Two events are supposed to be holding back the launch of mega-mergers: the UK’s exit from the European Union; and the US presidential election. Then again, maybe not. Last week fags maker British American Tobacco plc (LON:BATS) moved to stop wags asking when it was going to change its name to British Tobacco by launching a £38bn...

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PureCircle Hopes to Sweeten Up Investors

9 years ago0308 Sweetener producer set to update on growth in demand Stevia is used in soft drinks such as Coke Life Investors will be interested to know how the market for sugar substitute stevia is progressing when PureCircle Limited (LON:PURE) reports final results on Tuesday. Analysts expect PureCircle to update on growth in demand for...

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Trending: Now Big Shareholders Stick It to Sports Direct

9 years ago0342 Investors want review of how Sports Direct operates, company profits still way down and Brexit boost for Choo. Need for a review say shareholders Europe’s top companies are still miles away the profitability they enjoyed before the financial crash, Swiss broker UBS claimed today. While profits across the continent are...

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Wall Street Opens the New Week Positively

9 years ago0309 The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all began Monday’s session helped by positive oil prices and international equity markets. Benchmarks started higher Wall Street equities opened the week positively, pushing higher after last week’s record highs. The move higher is supported by another mini rally in oil prices. West...

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2016 U.S. Automotive Media and Marketing Report—Summer: Traditional Media Brands’ Expansion into Digital Creates New Auto Advertising Opportunities

9 years ago0495 Drivers of new vehicles in the United States spend an average of 11 hours a day watching TV or streaming video content, listening to radio programming, or browsing the Internet, according to the just published J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Automotive Media and Marketing ReportSM—Summer. The report finds that in many cases, these consumers...

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U.S. Stocks Slide on Back of Anaemic Consumer Spending

10 years ago0338 Consumer spending rose just 0.1% in March, adding to the gloom. Personal income and spending data disappointed A dismal end to a dismal week looks in store as US stocks add to yesterday's heavy losses. Personal income and outgoing data that missed expectations added to the gloom, with consumer spending rising a mere 0.1% in...

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Thursday's Most Followed - Facebook, Avocet Mining, BHS, and Goldstone Resources

10 years ago0501 In keeping with the nature of this column, social network giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was a major focus today, but so too was UK State backed Lloyds (LON:LLOY), retailer BHS and the Fed. Facebook results even took analysts by surprise... In keeping with the nature of this column, social network giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was a...

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London Shares Brush Off Bank and Manufacturing Gloom

10 years ago0306 Markets looked on the bright side, driving up the FTSE 100 Index by 48.15 points to 6145 at lunchtime. Barclays fell deeper into the red, slashed its divi and warned on the first quarter investment bank outlook Investors shrugged off downbeat news from Barclays (LON:BARC)  and weak manufacturing data to propel the top flight...

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Papers: BofE Governor Warns of Low Growth Risks

10 years ago0397 Mark Carney, Apple, Deutsche Boerse, Diageo, Merlin ... Diageo settles India dispute Mark Carney has warned that Britain and other countries risk becoming trapped in a world of low growth unless governments implement vital reform, reports the Telegraph. The Governor of the bank of England warned that “sizeable downside...

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Risers and Fallers: eServGlobal, Legendary Investments, Vela Technologies, Toumaz, Avation, Byotrol

10 years ago0320 Major share price risers and fallers in London at 1:30 p.m. The chips are down for wireless technology specialist Toumaz Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 4:15 p.m. RISERS eServGlobal (LON:ESG), up 18.8%. The wife of chairman John Conoley has purchased 241,065 depositary interests in the company at a...

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Most Followed: Amazon's Profits Well Short

10 years ago0345 Amazon's profits came in below expectations, but at least they won't have to pay so much tax ... It is, as they say, sometimes better to travel in hope and expectation than to arrive. Online retailing-cum-tax-avoidance specialist Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares rose 8.9% on Thursday in the regular trading session, presumably in...

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