Thursday Newspaper round up
Retail shareholders are to invest a greater sum in Direct Line’s initial public offering than any other UK flotation in at least the past five years after about 25,000 individual investors applied to take...
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Wednesday Newspaper round up.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has stamped her seal of approval on Greece’s austerity plan and vowed to stand by the country as “partner and friend”, signalling almost certain approval for the next tranche...
Tuesday Newspaper round up.
Investor opposition to the proposed tie-up between Europe’s aerospace and defence champions is mounting, with more than 30 per cent of shareholders in BAE Systems expressing significant concerns about the deal with EADS. Ahead...
The Monday Newspaper round up.
BAE Systems’ largest shareholder will on Monday signal its “significant reservations” about the UK defence group’s proposed tie-up with EADS . Invesco Perpetual, which owns more than 13 per cent of BAE, will outline...
The Smallcap Oil & Gas round up.
Amerisur Resources : AMER Good news came this week as AMER announced the Platanillo-5 well encountered an interval of 99ft gross, 79ft net pay in the U sands of the Villeta formation. Platanillo-5 flowed...
Friday Newspaper round up.
Alistair Darling has made a forceful intervention in the plans by EADS to combine with BAE Systems, saying British interests were bound to suffer because the UK government would have no equity stake in...
Thursday Newspaper round up
FirstGroup is considering legal action against the Department for Transport after it pulled the controversial West Coast rail bid in a humiliating about-turn, plunging the entire industry into chaos. The bus and rail operator,...
Wednesday Newspaper round up.
FirstGroup’s contract to run the West Coast Mainline has been cancelled by the Government due to “significant technical flaws” in the bidding process, which will be re-run. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said that the...
