Market round-up: Takeover gossip gushing around North Sea explorer Premier Oil send its shares shooting to the summit of the FTSE 250 leaderboard... more
Traders dump shares in some of Britain’s most famed High Street names after a slew of updates from leading retailers fail to impress the market... more
Market Round-up: Dana Petroleum waves around strong numbers as part of its attempt to force Korea National Oil Corp to raise its £1.9 billion hostile takeover bid... more
Market Round-up: As the bosses at Dana Petroleum try to squeeze more cash out of KNOC, traders are already scrabbling round to work out which oil explorer will next attract a suitor... more
Market Round-up: The British high street faces a gloomy Christmas and a miserable 2011 as shoppers turn Scrooge in response to Government spending cuts... more
State-run Korea National Oil Corp has made a £1.5 billion takeover approach to Britain's Dana Petroleum, a source said, as the firm battles for energy resources with China... more
Market Round-up: Betting against Prudential’s shares is “risky” as they could rise whether or not its Asian acquisition wins the approval of shareholders ... more
Oil and gas company Dana Petroleum posts a 71 per cent fall in full-year pretax profit due to a writedown related to unsuccessful exploration spending and lower commodity prices... more
The Deal is back. Kraft’s unsolicited £10 billion bid for Cadbury. The merger of T-Mobile and Orange to form Britain’s largest mobile phone operator. Investment bankers are slavering after 18 months of what former senior Tory Alan Duncan might term “living on rations”
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Ironic isn't it? But on one of the hottest days of the year, the water companies have suddenly found themselves out of favour among stock market investors... more
A brief flurry of speculative buying saw shares of Dana Petroleum strike a high for the day of 1470p as talk whizzed around the Square Mile that a bid was on the way... more
The UK's well-run supermarket chains have also often been admired for their defensive qualities in times of trouble. But perhaps not for much longer.... more
Stock-market bears, who have been selling the life assurers aggressively short in recent weeks, claiming they would be the next casualties of the banking crisis, were feeling the pain today as their shares soared.... more
Energy: Dana Petroleum moved to pick off debt-ridden fellow North Sea specialist Bow Valley Energy in a deal that should raise Dana's daily output by as much as a fifth... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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