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Martin Flanagan: Lloyds faces a long haul to revival but it's a good start
LLOYDS Banking Group's annual results are a mixed bag. The bank made the heavy losses expected of it as HBOS's terminally gung-ho commercial real estate strategy remains a monkey on its new owner's shoulders in terms of billions of pounds of bad debts.
Comment: New man at London takes stock for a brighter 2010
NEW London Stock Exchange chief executive Xavier Rolet does not have his problems to seek. The notable fall in revenues and profits at the exchange is partly a result of new, cheaper rivals with electronic share-trading platforms eating the LSE's market share. Chi-X, Bats, to a lesser extent Turquoise...
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Scrutineer: Building up momentum
Barratt 248.2p +14.8p
Scrutineer: Preparing for the worst
HMV 115.5p -3.2p Hays 98.05p -1.75p
Scrutineer: Investors attracted to DSG
DSG 27.73p+0.74p Hargreaves Lansdown 245.7p-2.3p
Scrutineer: Long and short of recovery
THE latest raft of data makes clearer than ever that UK economic recovery is most likely to be pedestrian and spasmodic.
Scrutineer: Sad September myth helps hide good opportunities
STOCK market bulls and followers of the Efficient Markets Theory should take a holiday. For "Sad September" is almost upon us – the month that, for reasons that company analysts and disciples of chart analysis cannot explain – stock markets are susceptible to setback.
Scrutineer: National Express defiant
National Express 398.4p -10.2p Johnston Press 38p +3.25p
Scrutineer: Will new focus revive STV?
STV 59p -3p
Scrutineer: Going's good for bookies
Paddy Power 19.81+0.81 Axis Shield 374.00p +29p
Scrutineer: Reasons to be cheerful
Cairn 2,586p -37p Punch 130.9p +23.3p
Scrutineer: Risks of Ventura's caution
Venture 843.5p +1p Petrofac 906.5pp -7p
Scrutineer: Never mind details, trusts happy with level of recovery
IS IT a 2003-style stock market rally? A 1933-style rally? or a 1975-style rally?
Scrutineer: Opportunity for upstarts
Lloyds 101.6p+0.4p Cineworld 158p -0.5p
Scrutineer: Bus firms hit bump in road
FirstGroup 356.2p +1.2p Stagecoach 138.9p-6.4p
Scrutineer: Mystery over C&G U-turn
Lloyds 98.72p +1.96p
Scrutineer: Air-to-ground missile strike
Ryanair 3.06 -0.06
Scrutineer: Private equity plots a steady course out of credit storm
INVESTORS who set sail on the private equity ship before The Great Storm broke must be clinging to their bunks and wondering when it is all going to end. I have good news and bad news: it won't, any time soon.
Scrutineer: Weather eye on retailers
Celtic FC 40.50p unch
Scrutineer: Insurers look brighter
Prudential 529.5p +51.2p
- Rangers run into the ground as furious HRMC battles to claw back tax
- Broken Rangers: Club signals intention to go into administration
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- Rangers blame HMRC for driving club to brink of administration
- Six Nations: Steadman given notice as ruthless Robinson seeks to strengthen team
- Scottish independence: No breakthrough in talks between Alex Salmond and Michael Moore
- Devo-max merely a dodgy back-up plan to save SNP, says Jim Sillars
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- The Rumour Mill: Tuesday’s football news and gossip
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Wednesday 15 February 2012
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