Marks & Spencer Share News (MKS)

UK shoppers boost spending despite inflation's bite

Retail sales in April +0.5% m/m vs Reuters poll +0.3%

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LONDON BROKER RATINGS: Numis starts Tristel with 'add'

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning:

LONDON BRIEFING: Germany enters recession; UK energy price cap lowered

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London were called to open lower on Thursday, amid the continued political scrap over raising the US government debt limit and after news that Germany has entered a technical recession.

London stocks fall sharply on rate hike fears

Aviva tumbles on lower net flows

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LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Stocks sold off amid US debt limit angst

(Alliance News) - US debt ceiling concerns battered European equities on Wednesday, leading to broad-based stock price declines, as investors fret over what a default would mean for global markets.

ShoreCap sees 'attractive' entry point in Marks & Spencer

(Sharecast News) - Analysts at ShoreCap told clients they believed they saw a "very attractive entry point" into Marks & Spencer's shares, given the increasing possibility of a rating expansion.

M&S shares soar as strategy 'beginning to deliver'

2022/23 profit down 7.8%

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LONDON MARKET MIDDAY: US debt deadlock, robust UK inflation hit stocks

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were lower at midday on Wednesday, as the deadline to come to a US debt ceiling agreement creeps closer, leaving investors fearing for the worst.

M&S seems to finally have "struck the right formula" for turnaround

(Alliance News) - Analysts cheered an upbeat set of annual results from Marks & Spencers Group PLC, with the firm artfully managing costs amid sky-high inflation and strengthening its offering to customers in both food and fashion.

M&S annual profit jumps 21% amid turnaround plan; dividends to return

(Alliance News) - Investors were cheered by Marks & Spencers Group PLC's annual results on Wednesday, with the firm expecting to resume dividend payments at its interim results.

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks down amid hotter-than-expected UK inflation

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Wednesday, as a new UK inflation reading came in hotter-than-expected.

M&S beats FY forecasts, to reinstate 'modest' dividend

(Sharecast News) - UK retailer Marks & Spencer delivered a forecast-busting annual profit driven by a major improvement in its food division and said it would reinstate a "modest" dividend in November.

Wednesday preview: UK CPI, Marks & Spencer in the spotlight

(Sharecast News) - Investors' focus in the middle of the week would be on a reading for consumer prices in the UK in April.

LONDON BROKER RATINGS: Mitchells & Butlers raised to 'buy'; M&S cut

(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Thursday morning and Wednesday:

Broker tips: M&S, Mitchells & Butlers, AMS

(Sharecast News) - Citi downgraded its stance on Marks & Spencer on Thursday to 'neutral' from 'buy' and trimmed the price target to 170p from 175p.