India-focused miner Vedanta posted a 61% drop in saleable iron ore output in its second quarter, though sales fell by a smaller amount due to high volumes sold before the curb... more
As Google blew out the candles on its birthday cake, Imagination Technologies was also celebrating, thanks to hopes the chip designer is about to get a present from the US giant... more
Talk of an international tug of war over accountancy software group Sage sparked rare interest in a nervy session where worries about Greece largely damped the spirits of the City's wheeler-dealers... more
A potent combination of a Greenpeace protest and worries over the sale of a stake in a subsidiary made Cairn Energy the worst-performing blue chip today... more
ITV'S return to the FTSE 100 could prove short-lived. The Downton Abbey broadcaster continued its slide today, off 0.9p at 73.4p, raising the possibility that the company could be booted out of the top flight at the next reshuffle of the indices... more
A return to the black and growing hopes of the green light for a long-awaited stake sale pushed Cairn Energy to the top of the FTSE 100 winners' list today... more
Ah, the desperate whiff of worried PRs. London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources had a bruising encounter with tribal rights charity Survival International last year... more
Market round-up: Africa-focused explorer Bowleven — touted by countless Square Mile gossips as “the next Tullow Oil” — reveals that it found more crude at its exploration well in Cameroon, sending its shares… down 2%
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Market round-up: As equities in London endure a very choppy day of trading, Vedanta Resources reveals itself to be a casualty of this stock market volatility... more
Market round-up: Royal Bank of Scotland is one of London’s biggest losers today as investors fretted over the state-controlled lender’s exposure to Ireland... more
Could Archie Norman have a pleasant surprise for ITV investors next month? Goldman Sachs thinks a big pick-up in advertising demand is on the cards... more
Vedanta Resources claimed the crown among top stocks today as City heavyweight Morgan Stanley predicted the miner’s shares could double in price — even if metal prices remain stuck at their current levels ... more
Vedanta Resources claimed first place on the Footsie winners' board as Morgan Stanley says the miner's shares could be worth a staggering £68 - even if metal prices hardly rise from their current levels... more
There is still no sign that the slump in the housing market has hit rock bottom. In fact, some property experts are predicting prices will continue falling throughout the remainder of this year, by as much as another 10% to 20% ... more
There is still no sign that the slump in the housing market has hit rock bottom. In fact, some property experts are predicting prices will continue falling throughout the remainder of this year, by as much as another 10% to 20% ... more
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