Aegis shares rocket almost 7% as the advertising group confirms it is in talks to sell its research arm Synovate to French firm Ipsos, with a rumoured price tag of £500 million... more
Whose doors will the NOCs be knocking on this year? With the oil price hovering above $100 a barrel, City gossips have been trying to work out which energy explorers could receive an approach from one of the cash-rich national oil companies... more
Altium Securities analysts visit handbag-maker Mulberry’s Somerset factory, which they say helped to "reassure us that last week’s trading update was not a blip”... more
Market Round-up: Cairn Energy is as close as anyone came to drumming up a story on a typically quiet summer's day, with some punting the idea its Greenland drilling campaign is poised to come up double trumps... more
All eyes in the City are on George Osborne as he prepares the massive spending cuts expected in his emergency Budget tomorrow, but brewer Fuller's sneaks in with some strong preliminary results... more
Mulberry's strong profits mean the shares rate a good a buy as one of the firm's handbags, while shares in brewer Fuller's are worth drinking to... more
Market Round-up: The City may be celebrating news that Vince Cable will not be put in charge of reforming the nation’s banks but the sector’s shares are still sold off... more
Market Round-up: As Royal Bank of Scotland’s shares hit highs not seen since December 2008, one analyst warns that the strong run is unlikely to continue... more
Market Round-up: Banking stocks bounce back from the sell-off caused by Goldman Sachs’s woes, as Deutsche Bank advised buying all four UK-focused banks ... more
Could Novartis be circling drugs group Antisoma? Speculation grew in the City after ING said it believed the cancer-drug developer could prove an attractive target for the Swiss giant... more
Israeli telecoms and medical lab equipment maker BATM Advanced Communications disappoints investors with a slump in profits that leads to concern about its future performance... more
As investors spent a second day panicking over the impact on financial stocks of President Obama’s War on Wall Street, oil shares did their best to claim a little of the limelight... more
After yesterday’s Cadbury excitement, a sluggish session on the stock market as most attempts to drum up business meet deaf ears - but one stock was making noise... more
The £10 billion battle for control of Cadbury, 5p cheaper at 792½p, is now warming up, but the City is looking around for the next Footsie 100 target... more
Petrofac shareholders can reflect on this week with a certain amount of satisfaction and look to the future with pound signs registering in their eyes. The shares have traded at record highs this week and with that in mind it was time for them to take some profits ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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