The banking sector on Wednesday helped the FTSE 100 post a gain of 28.7 points to close at 5,245.9, while the FTSE 250 gained 4.5 points to 7,541.7 on a volume of 2.9 billion shares traded.
The gains in the banking sector came as Goldman Sachs touted the stocks to its clients for reasons […]

In London on Tuesday, the FTSE 100 gained 0.5 percent to 5,217.2, while the FTSE 250 was up 0.4 percent to 7,537.2 on a volume of 2.7 billion shares traded, and Deutsche bank raised its target for the FTSE 100 from 5,250 to 5,450 by year’s end.
Telecommunications companies found themselves in positive territory. […]

There are a number of key reasons why someone may want to sell house fast:
1. Moving abroad, and need to move into their overseas property without the hassle of managing one in the UK;
2. Caught up in a property chain, leaving the seller unable to move into a new property elsewhere in the country
3. Debt […]

The FTSE 100 was up 0.5 percent to 5,045.0 while the FTSE 250 gained 0.8 percent to 7,317.9 on a volume of 2.6 billion shares on Thursday on the strength of the oil and mining sectors.
Oil exploration groups saw advances as First Calgary Petroleums rose 1.3 percent to 392 ½p despite the end […]

The FTSE 100 closed down fractionally at 5046.8 while the FTSE 250 lost 0.2 percent to 7289.8, on a low volume of 2.6 billion shares.
Part of the drop on the FTSE 250 had to do with concerns about the housing market, and most of the stocks in that sector were down. Savills, […]

Volume was light at 2.4 billion shares in London equities trading on Wednesday, as the FTSE 100 fell 0.4 percent to close at 5,003.7 on Wednesday, and the FTSE 250 was down 0.2 percent for a closing level of 7,227.3.
Among the losers of the day were retailer Kingfisher, which fell 1.9 percent after […]

Mining sector gains and chemical sector losses balanced out to mid-afternoon gains overall on the London equities markets by mid-afternoon on Thursday.
In the mining sector, gold mining company Randgold Resources gained 7.8 percent to 700p on the strength of a good first quarter report.
Randgold’s good news helped others in the sector […]

Shares in oil and gas companies were higher at midday in London on Monday, partly as a result of rising crude oil prices, as well as on the news of a possible takeover bid for Edinburgh Oil Gas by Oranje-Nassau E&P and Dyas UK.
As a result of the possibility, shares of Edinburgh Oil […]

In London at midday Friday, Hit entertainment was down on news that one of the potential buyers of the children’s entertainment company had dropped out of the bidding competition, sending Hit’s shares down by 2.2 percent. In the technology sector, meanwhile, Spirent was down another 3.9 percent after a large fall on Thursday, still […]

In mid-day trading in London on Thursday, telecommunications testing company Spirent saw their shares fall by 24.9 percent after the company issued a warning that they will probably be reporting an operating loss of around £10m for the first half.
On the news, Citigroup downgraded Spirent’s stock to “hold” status. Computacenter was down as […]