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CPWWed, 28th Jul 2010 07:09
Lloyds Banking Group will on Tuesday launch the UK's largest rights issue to raise £13.5bn ($22bn), offering investors new shares at 36p each, a huge discount, ahead of a shareholder vote on Thursday. The rights issue is part of a £22.5bn capital raising that aims to repair the bank's balance sheet
Read moreTesco's telecoms arm threatened a price war with the likes of BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse as it unveiled plans yesterday to offer bundled broadband and home phone packages for the first time. Britain's biggest retailer announced that it had signed a five-year deal with Cable & Wireless
Read moreLondon's blue chips closed lower as investors used a 100 point plus fall for the Dow as an excuse to take profits. Many of the major commodity plays, including Xstrata, Rio Tinto and Anglo American had enjoyed gains in early deals, but investors lost interest late morning. Oil plays BP, Royal Dutc
Read moreLondon's blue chips are still in the red in midday dealings after the Dow dropped more than 100 points in the US. Many of the major commodity plays, including Xstrata, Rio Tinto and Anglo American had enjoyed gains in early deals, but investors lost interest late morning. Oil plays BP, Royal Dutch
Read moreLondon is back where it finished yesterday's session as a sell-off in the mining sector on weaker metal prices gathered pace near lunchtime. Many of the major commodity plays, including Xstrata, Rio Tinto and Anglo American had enjoyed gains in early deals, but investors lost interest late morning.
Read moreFootsie has opened stronger helped by an improvement on Wall Street last night and strong demand for oil stocks after a spike in crude prices. National Express, though, is the main talking point. The price has crashed by more than a quarter as investors face the prospect of a hefty rights issue af
Read moreVirgin Mobile France, in which Carphone Warehouse has a 48.5% stake, is to pay €56m (£51.3m) in cash for Tele2 France and its 385,000 customers. Once the deal has gone through, Virgin Mobile France will have over 1.6 million customers, of which 60% are post pay, "consolidating its position as Franc
Read moreTed Baker yesterday provided further evidence that its upmarket, and sometimes quirky, clothing is still in fashion with British shoppers. The group's shares, which trade on a forward 2010 price earnings ratio of 14.3 times, are also at a premium to standard high street retailers, although this par
Read moreStocks ran out of steam mid-afternoon, trading as near to Wednesday's close as they had done all day, but strength on Wall Street inspired a late rally here. The top stocks were still mining companies as metal prices continued their march higher. Gold futures neared $1,060 an ounce as the dollar co
Read moreLondon's leading shares continued to trade sideways over the lunchtime session, consolidating the morning's gains. Mining stocks are responsible for much of the Footsie's buoyancy with Xstrata, ENRC, Kazakhmys, Antofagasta, Anglo American and BHP Billiton all going well. Vedanta is also on the u
Read moreFootsie is still in the blue as investors give a warm reaction to company announcements, though the leading share index is off its earlier highs. Vedanta leads the mining sector higher. The Indian giant said zinc, copper and aluminium operations were at full capacity during the second quarter as it
Read moreBuoyant mining shares are giving London's blue chips a lift in early dealings the day after gold hit a new record high. Nine out of the ten top FTSE 100 performers are miners. Lonmin is leading the way, closely followed by Xstrata, Rio Tinto, Fresnillo, Kazakhmys, Antofagasta, Vedanta Resources, An
Read moreAfter yesterday's pause for breath leading shares are back at the races today, with dealers predicting the FTSE 100 will open just under 50 points higher. Attention is certain to focus on part-nationalised bank Lloyds Banking Group which is proposing to raise around £25bn in capital by means of a r
Read moreMobile phone retailer and broadband provider Carphone Warehouse reiterated its existing guidance for the year to March 2010, after posting rises in customers at its two divisions. Talk Talk, the firm's broadband division, posted a net year-on-year gain of 15,000 new subscribers during the second qu
Read moreOn Thursday the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will announce its interest rate decision and, as has been the case for several months, it would be a major surprise if the MPC were to make any decision other than no change. Similarly, the size of the £175bn quantitative easing (QE)
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