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PRESS: Reckitt starts talks on £6 billion sale of homecare assets

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC has started early discussions with some of the potential suitors for its homecare assets, which could fetch more than £6 billion,...

Wed, 18/09/2024 - 08:14

TOP NEWS: UK inflation rate unmoved but service price growth quickens

UK annual consumer price inflation remained at 2.2% last month, though services price growth picked up, reinforcing expectations that the Bank of England will leave...

Wed, 18/09/2024 - 07:15

UK foreign secretary to talk security ties and Russia in Norway trip

The UK foreign secretary will discuss deepening defence, security ties with Norway and tackling threats from Russia when he meets his Norwegian counterpart on Wednesday.

David...

Wed, 18/09/2024 - 05:28

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: FTSE 100 climbs as hopes for jumbo rate cut grow

Stocks in London closed higher on Tuesday, with airlines among the strongest performers, as expectations grow of a larger Fed rate cut and data shows...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 17:05

Physiomics celebrates contract with existing client worth £65,000

Physiomics PLC on Tuesday said that it has been awarded a new contract by an existing, large pharmaceutical client.

Physiomics is an Abingdon, Oxfordshire-based mathematical modelling...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 15:36

TOP NEWS: Ferguson increases dividend 5.3% despite sluggish sales

Ferguson Enterprises Inc on Tuesday predicted modest growth in the year ahead after a subdued end to the financial year just ended.

In the three months...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 14:36

UK’s Ed Miliband says Labour will take on clean energy ‘blockers’

UK Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has vowed to ‘take on the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists’ to build clean energy infrastructure.

Speaking at trade body...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 14:10

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

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Wednesday 18 September 
Advanced Medical Solutions Group PLCHalf Year Results
Argentex Group PLCHalf Year Results

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 13:47

Nippon Active Value grows net asset value, beats benchmark

Nippon Active Value Fund PLC on Tuesday said it outperformed the ‘essentially flat’ MSCI Japan Small Cap index, and remains confident in its ‘highly selective,...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 13:25

EARNINGS AND TRADING: McBride swings to profit; Headlam in the red

The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News:

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McBride PLC -...

Tue, 17/09/2024 - 13:03

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