1630: London's leading shares drifted lower, with little to encourage buyers into the market ahead of the release this evening of the minutes from the March 13th meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, ...

1405: Risers outnumber fallers among Footsie constituents by six to one. Among the laggards are defensive stand-bys such as tobacco companies BATs and IMPs, and supermarkets Morrisons and Tesco. Property ...

Buy on the dips has been my personal mantra for the last 18 months. In roller-coaster stock markets, you don't want to buy at the top of the ride, but the bottom.The recovery is set to be a long, bumpy ...

A trader at work at the German DAX index in Frankfurt. European stocks rose, building on the previous day's recovery from recent sharp losses, in the hope that EU leaders will firm up action on tackling ...

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator Vodafone (VOD.L) made a writedown of 4 billion pounds and cut its medium-term sales target as the debt crisis squeezed customers in southern Europe, forcing ...

Philip Clarke has managed to resist temptation and decline a bonus for 2011-12. The chief executive of Tesco has done the right thing but it was the least he could do.

* FTSE 100 index up 0.8 percent * Miners lifted by China economic stimulus hopes * Vodafone boosted by reassuring results, div hike LONDON May 22 (Reuters) - Gains by mining stocks helpedBritain's top ...

This morning, iconic retailer Marks & Spencer released its full-year results. Alas, despite rising sales and steady earnings, M&S failed to lift its dividend payout. Despite this, its shares offer value, ...

SINGAPORE, May 22 (Reuters) - Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) said on Tuesday that it will launch the firstever offshore Indonesian equity futures contract in June. The contract will be based on the MSCI ...

It's now the biggest dividend payer in the FTSE 100, and Vodafone duly delivered on its promise of 7% dividend growth in its results for the year to 31 March 2012.The numbers were pretty much what the ...

* CEO Clarke declines annual bonus * Top 5,000 managers to get reduced annual bonus (Adds details) LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tesco boss Philip Clarkehas opted not to take an annual bonus of about 372,000 ...

The Nikkei rose 1.1 per cent on Tuesday as bargain hunters picked up technology and exporters following last week's sell-off, which was prompted by concern about the Eurozone.

Cruise operator, Carnival, was amongst the best-performing stocks on Tuesday morning as London's benchmark index continued its rally thanks to traders going bargain-hunting.

* Lock-ups for some employee-held shares expire on May 24 * Part of Glasenberg holding also released, not expected tosell * Glencore free-float will increase to over 50 percent * FTSE weighting will increase, ...

* FTSEurofirst 300 up 0.8 pct, Euro STOXX 50 up 0.9 pct * Indexes still in downward channels despite rally * 'Upside risk' seen at Wednesday's EU summit * Spain's troubled banking sector still in focus ...

When you start to build a portfolio it is a good policy to spread your investment between many different sectors of the economy, rather than to put everything into one type of business. So you buy shares ...

* Comes after Chinese Premier calls for growth measures * Economy in April showed fresh signs of weakness * Stocks rise on prospects for pick up in growth * Measure seen as more "fine tuning" ...

Philip Clarke, the chief executive of Tesco, has declined his annual bonus after the company posted its first drop in UK profits for at least 30 years.

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* Miners boosted by China economic stimulus hopes, rise incopper price * Carnival best FTSE 100 stock, supported by broker upgradeto price target * Hopes over EU meeting this week bring back stock-pickers ...

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 Press Release 22 May 2012 PETROFAC LIMITED PETROFAC AWARDED REFURBISHMENT PROJECT IN MALAYSIA Petrofac Facilities Management Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd (Petrofac), part of the Petrofac Group, has been awarded ...

Fund Ossiam ETF Istoxx EUROPE Minimum Variance Dealing Date 21/05/2012 NAV per share Official NAV GBP - 78.74118 USD (equivalent) - 124.43437 Number of shares in issue 594270 Code LEMV.L Fund Ossiam ETF ...

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- ECB provides 100bn euros to Greece - Markets await EU summit - Miners, financials on the up early on

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - BATS Europe is in talks withexchange rivals over a clearing deal that will allow the sharetrading platform to break into European futures and challengeincumbents NYSE Euronext ...

Vodafone has written down the value of its assets in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece by £4bn and reported flat profits, as the eurozone crisis took its toll on the mobile phone giant.

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UK households are facing a further 18-month-long squeeze on their finances as incomes rise more slowly than inflation, the OECD has warned, as the IMF says UK growth is too slow and the country needs more ...

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Security: Support/Resistance: EUR/USD: 1.2620/1.2919; FTSE100: 5,075/5,585; S&P 500: 1,290/1,346; EURO STOXX50 Fut.: 2,066/2,254

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