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icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the wider market also enjoying an improvement in upbeat trading, the FTSE 100 Index closed up 85.8 points at 5449.9.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Forty per cent of the largest 100 companies listed in the UK have non-British chief executives, according to Credit Suisse, reflecting a huge cultural shift
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The FTSE 100 Index has closed down 87.6 points at 5362.3.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The FTSE 100 was down 46.8 points at 5403.1 at 12:04 pm. Weaker commodity prices continued to weigh on the resource stocks, which proved a drag on the benchmark index. Tullow Oil was among the worst off, down over 6 per cent or 46p at 719.5p.
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Rising financial stocks and hopes the worst of the credit crunch may be over helped the FTSE 100 Index power ahead.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
The FTSE 100 was up 68 points at 5432.1 at 11:57 am this morning. The banking sector was strongest and HBOS was the subject of a round of bid rumours – Britain’s largest mortgage lender advanced by more than 10 per cent or 26.75p to 287.75p as traders citied talk that BBVA, the Spanish banking group, was mulling an offer. The talk comes only days after Santander, another Spanish bank, approached Alliance...
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The FTSE 100 index stayed in positive territory for the third day running, closing 27.9 points up at 5404.3.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Europe stocks swung modestly higher in mid-morning trade on Monday, with gains in the resource sector countering a decline from media firms after Wolters Kluwer cut revenue guidance. The U.K. FTSE 100 rose 0.1% to 5,383.50 and the German DAX 30 rose 0.3% to 6,400.12. U.S. stock futures were mixed, with the S&P 500 contract up slightly but futures on the Dow Jones Industrial...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The FTSE 100 Index powered 1.7% ahead for a second day of strong gains after a dramatic U-turn on relief over Citigroup’s first quarter figures.
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The FTSE 100 has ended a turbulent week 1.7 per cent higher at 5376.4, up 90.1 points.