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Sarah Marks

Unilever tipped to spring a surprise with Cadbury bid

Household-brands supremo Unilever could launch a surprise bid for Cadbury, trouncing America’s mighty Kraft and setting it on an ambitious new phase of growth

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Goldshield war may run and run as counterbid rolls in

Another bid for drugmaker Goldshield? It must be Friday. Stakes in the poker game for Britain’s biggest quoted generic medicines group just seem to get higher and higher as former management bet against the improbably named Fuhrer family of Israel for the Goldshield prize

Citigroup sounding alert on supermarkets as prices fall

Lessons from across the pond are not always relevant but here’s one that might turn out to be a timely early warning. Severe food price falls in the United States are likely to have a major impact on supermarket earnings in the States and a similar flood of cheaper food here could be the signal to get out of the UK supermarket sector

Nerves threat to the Footsie's rally

With the FTSE 100 poised to break through the psychologically important 5200 barrier, the overriding issue is one of investor confidence in the rally

Footsie ploughs on upward — but how long can it last?

London’s leading shares resumed their unusual summer rally after an early-morning wobble today, and were heading for a tenth straight day of gains

Investors queue up to take punt on property veterans

There was no shortage of punters pulling their chequebooks out when veteran property entrepreneurs Raymond Mould, Patrick Vaughan and Humphrey Price came calling

Investors queue up to take punt on property veterans

There was no shortage of punters pulling their chequebooks out when veteran property entrepreneurs Raymond Mould, Patrick Vaughan and Humphrey Price came calling

Vedanta slides as S&P gets cold feet over debt burden

London-listed Indian mining group Vedanta's huge debt mountain threatened to cast a long-term shadow over its expansion plans as credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said it had placed the group on its CreditWatch list with "negative implications"

Barclays sale spurs fund managers

A flurry of rumours stoked up by Barclays’ mouthwatering deal with BlackRock propelled interest sky high in other fund managers

Dawson shut out as Smiths and Menzies win Mirror deal

Forget newspaper wars - the battle to get your daily paper into the shops is just as vicious as anything the redtops can hurl at each other


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