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Resource suitors move apart on the FTSE 100
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Xstrata shares fall and Glencore’s rise after confirmation of merger terms while the wider market is in stasis, waiting for clarity from Athens
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Small-caps: French Connection out of fashion
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Troubled retailer falls after revealing disappointing Christmas results late on Friday which it said negated its positive first-half growth
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Investors seek Bumi talks with Bakries
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Shareholders want the Bakrie family and their partner Samin Tan to withdraw a motion calling for Nat Rothschild to be ousted from the company’s board
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Small-cap week: Coms surges on Smith share deal
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Internet telephone service provider gains 168% after chief executive of MXC Capital increases stake
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Unilever agrees to return to negotiations
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Unilever feels the ‘time is right’ to see if Acas can help resolve the dispute after it closed its final salary scheme
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Small-caps: Game bounces back
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Agreement with lenders lifts troubled retailer while brewer Fuller’s rises after announcing the purchase of 15 pubs from Enterprise Inns for £22.9m
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Bakrie vehicle moves to oust Rothschild from Bumi
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Dramatic move is a setback for the UK financier, who had pledged to clean up corporate governance at the coal miner
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Chartists have a cross to bear
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Analysts’ favourite is little help in spotting trends, says David Schwartz
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Broadband take-up boosts BT earnings
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Pension deficit widens £1.6bn, but pre-tax profit for third quarter is up 48% at the UK telecoms group
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RBS fights Libor dismissal claim by trader
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Bank says former Singapore employee was guilty of gross misconduct for ‘improperly influencing’ rate setting
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Insurers head gains with FTSE eyeing 6,000 level
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London makes broad-based gains with only six FTSE 100 stocks falling as US jobs data and purchasing managers’ surveys lift sentiment
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Small caps: Porvair buoyed by profits surge
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Company sales bolstered by solid performance of its higher-margin metal filtration division
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Miners power FTSE to six-month high
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ENRC misses out on rally fuelled by Glencore and Xstrata’s proposed merger while disappointing results elsewhere drag on London index
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Small-caps: MXC chief share buy lifts Coms
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Internet telephone company’s shares jump 72.7% after Ian Smith, chief executive of MXC Capital, increases direct and indirect holdings to 27.6%
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AstraZeneca unveils plans to cut 7,300 jobs
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Anglo-Swedish drugs group, which pledged a $4.5bn share buy-back, reports 2% fall in revenues as competition from generics bites
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Earnings doubts hang over Hong Kong rally
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Falling margins and slow revenue growth cloud the outlook for the apparently buoyant Hang Seng and analysts say there are reason to be cautious
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GlobeOp shares soar after purchase by TPG
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US private equity group is to buy the London-listed hedge fund administrator for £508m, marking its return to the UK financial services sector
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Small-caps: Takeover delay hits Synchronica
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Smartphone messaging software maker slips 13% on news that offer from Myriad has yet to be agreed
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Tognum venture powers Rolls-Royce to record high
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Enginer maker’s marine acquistion with Daimler helps London index to its biggest gain in a month in a broad-based rally
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Small-caps: 888 Holdings rises on Caesars deal
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The online gaming group rose 11.7 per cent on news it is to supply a poker platform and B2B services to support a US operation
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