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TRADING UPDATES: Vaultz to raise funds via placing and retail offer
Vaultz Capital PLC - operating company building a scalable, revenue-generating business through participation in Bitcoin network infrastructure - Plans to raise GBP0.5 million via placing at 15.5 ...
London close: Stocks finish choppy Tuesday session higher
London stocks ended higher on Tuesday, recovering from earlier losses as investors grew more optimistic about progress in US trade negotiations. The FTSE 100 index rose 0.28% to close at 8,785.33 ...
PRESS: AstraZeneca CEO Soriot wants to move listing to the US - Times
Citing multiple sources, the Times said AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot has spoken privately of his preference to move the FTSE 100 company's listing on a number of occasions and has even discussed ...
Drax hires Shell executive Frank Lemmink as chief financial officer
(Alliance News) - Drax Group PLC on Tuesday said it has appointed Frank Lemmink as its new chief financial officer to replace Andy Skelton.
Physiomics deepens ties with existing client as inks new contract
The Oxfordshire, England-based mathematical modelling company said it has inked an 18-month contract worth GBP98,600 with an existing, unnamed client that will see it apply PK/PD modelling and ...
UPDATE: Final phase of "Not for EU" food labelling comes into force
(Alliance News) - The final phase of post-Brexit food labelling on products being shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been introduced. The "Not for EU" labels, an element of the Windsor ...
Global Smaller Cos Trust underperforms benchmark in "difficult year"
Global Smaller declared a 2.30p per share final dividend, a rise of 8.0% from 2.13p. It means its total dividend for the year is 3.00p, up 6.8% from 2.81p. It is its 55th successive dividend hike, the ...
PRESS: Standard Chartered faces lawsuit over thefts from Malaysia fund
(Alliance News) - Standard Chartered PLC faces a lawsuit filed in Singapore on Monday that seeks more than USD2.7 billion from the bank over its alleged role in the theft of funds from Malaysia's ...
London midday: Stocks turn lower as housebuilders retreat
S&P Global said that manufacturing production was lower for the eighth straight month, as companies scaled back output in response to "weak market conditions, clients offsetting higher costs through ...
LONDON BRIEFING: SSE and National Grid mull new Ofgem investment plan
In early corporate news, Drax taps a former Shell vice president as its new chief financial officer, and energy firms SSE and National Grid respond to a planned investment programme by UK energy ...
EARNINGS: Wynnstay profit up; Supreme hails "strong performance"
Wynnstay Group PLC - Powys, Wales-based agricultural supplies and specialist merchanting firm - It hails a "significant improvement" in the first half of its financial year. Pretax profit in the six ...
UK manufacturing downturn eases in June as decline in new orders slows
Manufacturing production fell for the eight month in a row, as companies scaled down output in response to weak market conditions and uncertainty surrounding government policy, tariffs and the ...