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17% - Woodford’s CityFibre stake
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Only a few weeks after CityFibre ( CITY:AIM ) executives sold £900,000 worth of their shares in the broadband fibre operator, fund manager Neil Woodford has upped his stake in the company by around £55,000 to above 17%. Loaded up with debt after the acquisition of Kcom’s ( KCOM ) national cable...
£9bn – Defence efficiency savings
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Outsourcer Babcock International ( BAB ) says it is well placed to secure new work on the back of a £9bn efficiency regime under the Government’s five-year Strategic Defence and Security Review. Cost savings are an area where outsourcers should be able to excel and Babcock says there are...
ZERO – Net UK restaurant openings
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Pub company Mitchells & Butlers ( MAB ) says net restaurant openings across the industry were flat over the last year, easing competitive pressure in the dining market. That compares to 1,700 new restaurants, net of closures, opened in the year to June 2015, according to chief executive Phil...
10 years ago: LSE deja vu
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Exactly a decade ago London Stock Exchange ( LSE ) , currently the subject of a takeover bid by Deutsche Boerse (DB1:FRA) , was fighting off two bids: Deutsche and NASDAQ (NDAQ:NYSE) . One broker argued the LSE would be better off remaining independent but favoured the NASDAQ offer of the two bids...
5 year ago: Euro falls fowl
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Ahead of Thanksgiving weekend five years ago, Shares argued the euro was likely to lose ground against the dollar despite US politicians’ failure to rein in a surging government deficit. ‘The dollar’s ability to shrug off the news and hold its ground against the euro near the $1.35 mark suggests...
1 year ago: Inflation Ahoy!
Thursday 24 Nov 2016Inflation could be back on the agenda Shares warned this time last year, citing Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BAML) research which indicated consumer prices would be rising at a 1.7% rate by the end of 2016. At a time when the UK’s exit from the EU was barely on the agenda and sterling traded...
FTSE 350 - best & worst performers
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FTSE 350 - Best and worst sectors
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