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Sunday share tips: Majestic Wine, TalkTalk, Vodafone, Van Elle

(ShareCast News) - Buy Majestic Wine shares, recommended the Sunday Times' Inside the City column, after their halving over the last two years. New chief executive Rowan Gormley took over with a turnaround objective after a series of profit warnings, the latest in September. He has set a target of d

Monday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - Acacia Mining: JP Morgan keeps at overweight with a target price of 620p. Indivior: Jefferies stays at buy, 450p target. Centrica: Berenberg reiterates buy with a 240p target. South 32: Deutsche Bank reiterates hold with a 122p target. Glencore: JP Morgan keeps at neutral with

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: JPMorgan Raises Price Targets For Miners

UPDATE 2-Demand for fibre helps BT meet forecasts, pension deficit widens

* Q2 adjusted core earnings up 1 pct * Added 76,000 net broadband customers * Says consumer and mobile demand offset weak public sector * Shares down 3 percent (Adds comments by CEO; share price reaction) By Paul Sandle LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - BT, Britain's bigg

Sky says British customers can sign up for mobile from Oct. 31

LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Pay-TV company Sky Plc said on Thursday that customers would be able to register for its new mobile phone service in Britain, its biggest market, from the end of the month. Sky's mobile phone service, which will use Telefonica's British O2 network, is the last p

UPDATE 1-BT sees strong case for network investment if it stays intact

(adds further quotes, Minister comments) By Paul Sandle LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - BT said there was a "strong case" for the group to invest more in fibre-optic broadband networks, but the numbers would not add up if it was forced to spin off its Openreach network division. Chie

BT sees strong case for network investment if it stays intact

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - BT said there was a "strong case" for the group to invest more in fibre-optic broadband networks, but the numbers would not add up if it was forced to spin off its Openreach networks division. Chief Executive Gavin Patterson also warned that splitting up BT - whic

Tuesday broker round-up

(ShareCast News) - BT Group: Goldman Sachs keeps at buy with a target price of 560p. Bellway: Canaccord reiterates buy, 2350p target. Standard Life: Barclays keeps at underweight with a 301p target. Debenhams: HSBC maintains reduce with a 50p target. Smiths Group: UBS keeps at neutral with a 1510

TalkTalk fined record £400k over cyber attack

(ShareCast News) - TalkTalk has been fined a record £400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for failings over a cyber attack last year that affected more than 150,000 of its customers. Following an in-depth investigation, the ICO found that the telecoms group could have prevented the hack

UK broadband firm TalkTalk fined 400,000 stg after 2015 cyber hack

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Britain's data protection regulator said on Wednesday it fined British broadband provider TalkTalk 400,000 pounds ($509,000) for security failings that allowed hackers to launch a cyber-attack last year. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said TalkTalk cou

TalkTalk Hit With GBP400,000 Fine For Failing To Prevent Cyber Attack

UK's First Utility postpones IPO following Brexit vote

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - British energy supplier First Utility has postponed plans to list shares due to uncertainty created by Brexit and because proposals to improve competition in the energy market have not yet borne fruit, its chief financial officer said. First Utility, one of the sma

Sector movers: General retailers lead losses

(ShareCast News) - General retailers were the main drag on the market, as investors waited on policy decisions from rate-setters at the Bank of Japan and US Federal Reserve. Kingfisher was one of the weakest links in the retail chain on Tuesday, despite which the stock continued to trade near the to

CORRECTED-British regulator says Sky may have violated consumer rules

(Corrects to change "competition rules" to "consumer rules" in headline and first paragraph, corrects first date in paragraph two to May 2015 from May 2014) LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - European pay-TV group Sky may have violated consumer rules by making it too difficult for customers to ca

Sunday newspaper round-up: Fed, China, Glencore, Diageo, National Grid

(ShareCast News) - Traders are betting that the US Federal Reserve will stand pat on interest rates this week, despite warnings that rising inflationary pressures could persuade the US central bank to hike. The Sunday Times reported that investors were assuming the flurry of weaker-than-expected eco