Market Round-up: With hopes growing that a mergers and acquisitions frenzy will soon grip the markets, the City’s gossips are scrabbling around to work out the next possible deal... more
Market Round-up: Speculation that Prudential may now find itself the pursued rather than the pursuer pushes the insurance giant up the Footsie winners’ list... more
Stock market investors whose confidence shows signs of wobbling following a strong performance by shares during the third quarter, were offered some reassurance... more
A leading City figure who is to be named the first woman president of Britain’s leading business lobby organisation the CBI has called for greater boardroom diversity... more
BP today went only halfway to reassuring City investors about its future dividend policy amid fears a cut in the payout to shareholders may be on the way... more
Banks led the charge on the stock market this morning with Royal Bank of Scotland cutting a swathe through the bears despite reporting a record £24.1 billion loss... more
Shares of Marks & Spencer were edging precariously closer to their lowest for eights years today after broker Pali International chose to dump the retailer just days before it unveils first-half results... more
Stock market investors may not be out of the woods yet, but there is some encouragement to be drawn from the US Federal Reserve’s decision to buy up £382bn of toxic loans... more
RSA Insurance provided one of the few beams of sunshine in a gloomy market, jumping 7.2p to 165.5p on rumours that another foreign predator, this time Germany’s Allianz, is sniffing around... more
The steady slide in the oil price may have been good news for motorists and business, but it has played havoc with the share price of BG Group, and City speculators claim this leaves the oil and gas explorer vulnerable to takeover.... more
Steve Johnson’s first day in one of the hardest jobs in retail was met by a surprise jump in the Woolworths share price on talk that suitors were circling the struggling chain... more
The UK's third-biggest supermarket chain J Sainsbury put in a late spurt this afternoon as speculative buying pushed the price 14¼p higher to 333p... 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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