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Footsie edging upwards as results arrive thick and fast

10.11.09
Leading shares posted their fifth consecutive day of gains in another thin trading session as City investors tackled a clutch of results from blue-chip companies ... more

The next big deal?

10.09.09
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” ... more

BG beats BP with new ‘supergiant’ find in Brazil’s Santos Basin

09.09.09
The latest find by BG in the deep water off Brazil is a “supergiant” field and one which will outshine BP’s “giant” discovery last week in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said ... more

Venture takeover a coup for gas-hungry Centrica

24.08.09
Centrica has won the battle to gain control of the North Sea gas producer Venture Production ... more

Morgan Stanley backing Barclays after its Houdini act impresses

11.08.09
Some City brokers still have issues about Barclays and the apparent ease with which it has escaped the fallout from the banking meltdown which engulfed its rivals... more

Major blow for Venture as its hopes for gas well are dashed

21.07.09
Venture Production, the North Sea gas developer on the end of a £1.3 billion hostile takeover from British Gas group Centrica, admitted today one of its blockbuster hopes will not happen ... more

Shares on climb as talk of takeovers whets appetites

13.07.09
Shares rallied from opening falls after several billion pounds' worth of takeovers were dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites ... more

Sell-off in miners leaves the takeovers buzz feeling flat

13.07.09
Shares were on the slide again today despite several billion pounds' worth of takeovers being dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites... more

Bid target Venture forced to deny it is seeking £10 a share offer

13.07.09
Venture Production was today forced by the Takeover Panel to clarify that, contrary to weekend reports, it is not holding out for an offer of £10 a share, though two of its main shareholders are... more

Xstrata buzz restarts

07.07.09
Could takeover talks between the Brazilian mining giant Vale and the Anglo-Swiss outfit Xstrata soon be back on again? ... more

Dana is Footsie gusher as takeover talk prompts feverish trading

18.06.09
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

Rio Tinto plunges as the effects of £8.8bn rights issue kick in

17.06.09
Trading got under way in Rio Tinto's nil-paid shares today after its announcement a couple of weeks ago that it would raise £8.8 billion by way of a 21-for-40 rights issue at 1400p. ... more

Centrica delights with cut-price deals

11.05.09
The City was cheering British Gas group Centrica ... more

Centrica boosted by talk of 3i oil and gas sell-offs

27.04.09
Cash-strapped venture capital group 3i has confirmed plans to raise hundreds of million of pounds to strengthen its balance sheet ... more

Oil scavengers hoping for a fillip

23.04.09
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Grisly for bears as stock shortages add to the pain

24.03.09
Stock-market bears were continuing to feel the squeeze today as they rushed to cover any remaining open short positions following yesterday’s announcement of a $1 trillion rescue package for America’s banks... more

L&G leads fallers on fears dividend will be trimmed

24.03.09
Legal & General was the biggest blue-chip casualty today, losing 3.5p to 41.4p ahead of results tomorrow that are expected to produce a cut in the payout to shareholders.... more

Venture on rise as 'North Sea gas find' fuels bid talk

20.03.09
Speculation that a major new gas field has been found in the North Sea is believed to be behind what could be a £1.25 billion hostile takeover of Venture Production by Centrica... more

Is it time to get back in water with oil sharks again?

19.03.09
Energy analysis: The oil price tide has never gone out so far and so fast. Oil and gas exploration stocks have sunk. And the hedge fund sharks who fuelled the sector have lost their teeth.... more

Bears howling as insurers are lifted by Pru's strength

19.03.09
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

Bidders have Venture and BowLeven in their sights

18.03.09
The oil and gas sector was set alight after Centrica parked its tanks on the North Sea gas platforms of Venture Production, and unloved African explorer BowLeven received a takeover offer valuing it at more than treble its London-quoted price... 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

3i ejects its chief after shares go into freefall

28.01.09
Investment: The chief executive of 3i has paid the price for the collapse in fortunes at Britain’s leading venture-capital house... more

Market report: Property falls eject top builder from the Footsie

09.12.08
Taylor Wimpey's fall from grace among stock-market investors will be completed by the close of business tonight when its shares drop out of the Footsie 250 index ... more

Market report: Upbeat Credit Suisse has faith in equities for 2009

09.12.08
Credit Suisse brought investors some seasonal cheer today by taking an upbeat view of prospects for 2009... more

Market report: Rights issue takers lose out as banks pounded

16.09.08
The big High Street banks took another tonking, leaving investors who this summer took up or underwrote £16 billion of rights issues from HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland nursing hefty losses... more

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