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Market Round-up: Premier Oil on the slide as North Sea well comes up dry

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:28:43 GMT

The oil gods haven�t smiled on Premier Oil. Shares in the FTSE 250-listed oil explorer drop 17p to 1114p after it admits that a well in the North Sea had come up dry

Carpetright's sales collapse in January snow

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:19:47 GMT

Last month�s snow put an end to a sharp upturn in sales at Carpetright in the run-up to Christmas

Carpetright rallies with 58% rise and doubles dividend

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:04:20 GMT

Just 12 months after claiming business was mired in the most difficult trading conditions of his life, Carpetright boss Lord Harris of Peckham was able to report booming results

'Sink school' that turned into best in the country

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:54:21 GMT

Former 'sink school' where 90 per cent of teenagers failed to achieve good GCSEs was named the best in the country

Carpetright rallying with a spurt in sales

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:57:35 GMT

Shares in retailer Carpetright ran 17.5p higher at 917.5p today after it revealed a jump in sales in the past 12 weeks and said it expected first half profits to beat City forecasts

Tories rake in record �1.5m profit from conference takings

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:25:44 GMT

Conservatives set to make a record �1.5million profit from this year's conference

Stock markets plunge all over the world after a stall in US recovery

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:04:35 GMT

Stock markets around the world fell sharply today amid growing fears that the US economic revival has stalled

Miners are sent reeling after China pulls off price-cut deal in Australia

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:00:06 GMT

Mining shares took a pummelling today on the back of a triple-whammy of woes

Sales rise from the floor at Carpetright

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:56:54 GMT

Carpetright shares surged as the rugs retailer revealed sales have risen from the floor

Footsie's 10-month peak is boosting hopes for economy

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:03:52 GMT

Shares on the London stock market surged to their highest level in 10 months amid signs that the worst of the banking crisis may be over and that even the global economy was starting to look in better shape

JJB gets a boost from the world�s richest man

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:11:08 GMT

Troubled leisurewear retailer JJB Sports got support from an unlikely source today � Bill Gates

Carpetright downtrodden but looks to lift from rivals' woes

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:42:13 GMT

Carpet king Lord Harris of Peckham unveiled a slump in annual profits and doubted there would be an economic recovery this year

Oil explorer Bowleven hit by fears of new cash call

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:28:14 GMT

Shareholders in Edinburgh-based oil and gas explorer Bowleven may be forced to digest yet more bad news

Banks and miners take heart but oil shares drift

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:00:56 GMT

Better-than-expected results overnight from Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs set the tone for trading in London as investors returned from the Easter break

Share-pledge deadline sparks bosses deluge

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:24:20 GMT

Governance: The torrent of top bosses admitting to pledging their company shares to finance their private lives turns into a tsunami

Comet and Carpetright woes signal grim times

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:54:18 GMT

Retail: Further signs that retailers are poised to endure the toughest Christmas for decades emerged when Carpetright and the company behind electricals giant Comet unveiled a slump in sales

�3m of Elizabethan masterpieces emerge as Lord Harris sells off the family silver

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:27:59 GMT

The multimillionaire who is London's biggest sponsor of city academies is parting with �3 million of silver from his family collection

Pupils get say on running of flagship academies

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:47:34 GMT

Teenagers are to be given unprecedented influence over the future of the Government's flagship academies

Everyone is guilty: end the conspiracy of greed

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:51:13 GMT

Two banks nationalised, one bust, others taken over, �thousands of jobs likely to be lost, the FTSE 100 through the floor, the effects likely to spill over into the rest of the economy � and still I'm not sure if we really get it

Hermes� new rent rules give boost to High Street

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:49:55 GMT

Pension fund manager Hermes has stopped demanding large quarterly rent payments in a much-needed boost to the ailing High Street

Academy sponsors build 'branded' school empires

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:15 GMT

Wealthy academy backers are building education empires by opening chains of branded schools

Eight new academies ... and not one has its own swimming pool

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:17:33 GMT

City academies costing hundreds of millions of pounds are being built across London without crucial sports facilities

Carpetright sales floored by crunch

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:22:43 GMT

Carpet company admitted like-for-like sales in the last three months have crashed by 15.4%

High St heavyweights go to war with landlords

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:12:53 GMT

Inflation and housing woe give Mervyn dilemma on interest rates

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:00:57 GMT

Soaring inflation and slowing economic growth is a toxic mix which threatens to plunge the British economy into crisis

Retail giants' shares in a sea of red

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:35:02 GMT

The retail sector was a sea of red on share traders' screens after Marks & Spencer's shock warning on its food sales

Carpetright rolls out �62 million but the sales pinch is on

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:21:46 GMT

Sales are falling at Carpetright as consumers count their pennies and the cost of floor coverings - much of which are oil-based products - rises

City fear as shares slide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:57:17 GMT

Shares went into a tailspin on the Stock Exchange amid fears that the economy is heading for a long-term slump