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Resurgent pubs leave the bears nursing a hangover

26.08.09
The smell of burnt fingers wafted through the City today as the bears dumped their rapidly-rising pub stocks ... more

Hammerson’s shake-up

03.08.09
Brent Cross shopping centre owner Hammerson today appointed internal candidate David Atkins as its new chief executive ... more

Cheers as Brit calls an end to its Chaucer takeover tale

24.06.09
The cheers rang around Lime Street in the City today after Lloyd's of London broker Brit Insurance chose to withdraw its £221 million bid for rival Chaucer and thereby avoid the possibility of involving itself in a bidding war... more

Hammerson boss calls end of property slump

22.06.09
John Richards, the chief executive of property giant Hammerson, has said the two-year market slump may be near an end... more

How the West End can be an oasis for its shoppers

12.06.09
The Westminster Property Association is not known for its largesse. That is perhaps why Boris Johnson's eyebrows disappeared under his fringe on Tuesday when he was offered cash to spruce up the West End by a group whose members have given a less-than-generous response to his demand to pay a £20-per-square-foot development levy for Crossrail.... more

British Land plummets on fears it has to dash for cash

08.05.09
British Land claimed the wooden spoon on the Footsie today amid concerns the City landlord may have to launch a second dash for cash... more

BT a winner as tough talk on pension deficit cheers

17.04.09
BT raced up the FTSE 100 winner’s board today on talk that it is planning an all-out attack on its pensions deficit by issuing a multi-billion-pound bond... more

Cash-call success but Hammerson in retreat

23.03.09
Property companies' dash for cash has put them in the spotlight once again... more

Fancy a shares spree? you may have missed the boat

20.03.09
Imagine, if you will, for one delicious moment, you have £9.6 billion in the bank. Then imagine on Monday you buy the entire share capital of seven big property companies in a daring dawn raid... more

HSBC hits out at property giants after rights flood

19.03.09
HSBC has cast its expert eye over the real estate investment trust sector following a plethora of heavily discounted rights issues, running into billions of pounds, which have been launched recently to shore-up weakened balance sheets.... more

Cairn slides as it seeks to put new funds in pipeline

11.03.09
Cairn Energy is looking to raise an extra £120 million to help build pipelines to transport the vast oil reserves it has in India's Rajasthan region... more

Finance and property firms face chop from the Footsie

10.03.09
Such has been the pace and the scale of the stock market sell-off since the start of the year that the profile of the benchmark FTSE 100 index is set for another major makeover... more

Segro slides as it mulls cash call

02.03.09
Land: Landlord Segro said it was thinking of tapping investors for cash to bolster its balance sheet... more

RBS leads banks' upward charge despite that big loss

26.02.09
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RBS has bears on the run despite that record loss

26.02.09
Banks led the charge on the stock market this morning with Royal Bank of Scotland cutting a swathe through the bears despite reporting a record £24.1 billion loss... more

Bullish fund managers build up property sector

25.02.09
There are signs the property sector may be enjoying a spot of massage by fund managers as the month draws to a close.... more

Fears of shortfall as property duo Brixton and Segro head for cash-call queue

18.02.09
Property: Industrial landlords Brixton and Segro look set to join the growing list of property firms to ask shareholders for extra funding... more

Ratings cuts spell more Lloyds misery

17.02.09
Lloyds Banking Group continued to be rocked by last week's warning of losses totalling £11 billion at its recently acquired HBOS subsidiary ... more

More Lloyds misery after cuts in ratings

17.02.09
Lloyds Banking Group today continued to be rocked by last week's warning that losses may total £11 billion at its recently acquired HBOS subsidiary. ... more

Property firms pass the begging bowl

13.02.09
Property: Pleas from Hammerson and British Land for more than £1.3 billion from shareholders this week are expected to open the floodgates for a host of similar moves as property firms cope with tumbling prices... more

Foxtons ex-boss bets against Hammerson

11.02.09
Property: Foxtons founder Jon Hunt is sitting on a multi-million-pound profit after short-selling shares in troubled developer Hammerson... more

Rio shares head downhill in wake of boardroom rift

10.02.09
Rio Tinto dropped 55p to 1865p today as the miner remained locked in talks with its biggest shareholder Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) about a massive cash injection... more

Hammerson seeks cash as losses hit £1.6bn

09.02.09
Property: Developer Hammerson went cap in hand to the City for £584.2 million after plunging property prices saw it crash into the red... more

A blueprint for property disaster

09.02.09
City Comment: It is hard to know which is the dominant emotion as Hammerson kicked off what threatens to be a tidal wave of rights issues for the commercial property sector... more

BSkyB pulls in punters but picture is darkened by Caz

09.02.09
BSkyB has boasted it is recession-proof, but not everyone in the City is convinced. That's why its shares took a pasting today, falling 19½p to 466½p to make it one of the worst-performing Footsie 100 stocks... more

Footsie falls for fifth day as optimism wears thin

13.01.09
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Bank’s gloom taking a toll on the big retailers

13.08.08
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Hammerson crashes £417m into red as it takes value hit

07.08.08
City property developer Hammerson crashed into the red today as it was forced to write down the value of its property portfolio... more

Boost from oil and the banks eases pressure

05.08.08
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Squatters battle with property giant over historic site

07.07.08
One of Europe's biggest property firms is fighting squatters over a derelict Victorian workshop in a swathe of land it plans to redevelop in east London... more

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