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(RTTNews) – European stocks look set to open higher on Monday after U.S. shares closed at fresh record highs on Friday, helped by encouraging retail sales and inflation data as well as better-than-expected quarterly results from financial giants JPMorg…

Shares in engineering giant GKN had a spectacular day on Friday as the company became the focus of a bidding war that has seen some of the world’s biggest private equity funds getting involved. It is not often that we see the price of a FTSE 100 stock being driven so high and so quickly by the sort of …

It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It specialises in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products. “TCS will help the customer adopt a digital-first mind-set to win new customers and create growth at accelerated pace,” said TCS CEO …

Ninety-two companies have received venture capital investment in the past six years, figures reveal.

StockMarketWire.com – The FTSE 100 is expected to open around 8 points higher at 7,709.1, according to the spread betting firms, tracking early gains on Asian markets. The likely demise of construction and services company, Carillion, hit the headlines…

The FTSE 100 is expected to open around 8 points higher at 7,709.1, according to the spread betting firms, tracking early gains on Asian markets. The likely demise of construction and services company, Carillion, hit the headlines over the weekend give…

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The FTSE 100 is expected to start on the front foot, buoyed by Asia’s main markets and strong end of the week for Wall Street. The index of blue-chip shares will open 15 points higher at 7793.64, according to the spread betting companies. On the foreign exchange markets, the pound rose 0.22% to …

Dutch retail sales growth quickened in November after easing sharply in the previous month, figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed Monday.

Retail sales climbed 5.5 percent year-over-year in November, much faster than the 1.5 percent gai…

The Bank of Japan raised its economic view of three out of nine regions from its previous assessment in October.

In its quarterly Regional Economic Report released Monday, the bank said the Tohoku region’s assessment was upgraded due to increased pr…

Indonesia’s exports and imports grew less than expected in December, data from statistics bureau revealed Monday.

Exports rose 6.93 percent year-over-year in December, well below the 13.85 percent growth economists had forecast.

Imports surged 17.83…

Japan’s SoftBank is in discussions over a spin-off Tokyo listing of its domestic telecoms business as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son seeks to boost the technology group’s investment clout. The company, which owns US mobile network Sprint and UK chip designer Arm, said on Monday that a listing of …

The UK blue chip FTSE 100 index closed 0.2 percent up at 7,778.64 points on Friday, as share index held onto record high levels, supported by a sharp rise in British engineering group GKN which said it had rejected an unsolicited offer from rival Melro…

The UK PM Theresa May’s office has asked companies listed in the blue-chip FTSE 100 index to a public letter welcoming the government’s efforts of making Brexit a success. But this request is not getting digested well with big corporates in the country. Britain’s second-biggest pharmaceuticals company …

Dutch Nov Retail Sales Up 5.5% On Year Vs. 1.5% In October

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The International Monetary Fund’s First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said China should address own shortcomings on trade and investment.

At the Asian Financial Forum, he said globalization will not receive sustained global support unless it …

It is not clear what will happen if Carillion does go bust, says Applied Value’s Stephen Rawlinson. While he says that life will continue, he adds: “The interruptions in the short-term would be colossal. In some cases there will be no legal basis to employ people because that would cease to exist as a …

The Australian and New Zealand Dollars returned to the offensive Monday, seemingly buoyed by swelling regional interest rate hike speculation.

UK house prices increased in January, while sellers in the capital cut their selling prices, data from the property website Rightmove showed Monday.

Asking prices climbed 0.7 percent month-on-month in January, reversing a 2.3 percent decline a month…

Japan’s M2 money supply growth eased for the second straight month in December, preliminary data from Bank of Japan showed Monday.

The M2 money stock climbed 3.6 percent year-over-year in December, slower than November’s 4.0 percent rise.

Meanwhile…

New Zealand’s food prices declined for the fourth straight month in December, figures from Statistics New Zealand showed Monday.

Food prices dropped 0.8 percent month-over-month in December, faster than the 0.4 percent fall in November.

Grocery food…

Ride-hailing apps like Uber and Grab price journeys higher when demand spikes. But can you get around it?

The European indices ended the last trading session of the week with modest gains as the continued rise in the value of the euro kept the markets in check. The euro rallied to a 3-year high against the dollar. The CAC 40 of France gained 0.52%, DAX of …

(RTTNews) – Indian shares look set to open higher on Monday after India’s industrial production in November grew at a pace nearly double than the rate economists had expected, thanks to robust expansion in manufacturing. The index of industrial production rose 8.4 percent year-on-year in November, …

The UK has a new shade of choice, taking over from white in 2016.

While the French CAC 40 Index climbed by 0.5 percent, the German DAX Index and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index rose by 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively. Crude oil futures rose Friday, ending the week at the highest level in more than three years. February WTI oil rose $0.50 or 0.8 percent, …

As long as the Euro has strong fundamentals behind it, traders may continue to find excuses to look long the single currency as we approach the ides of January.

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Good morning folks,
Looks like it has been another interesting morning for updates.
I’m looking at the following:
Carillion (LON:CLLN) (won’t spend too long on this, as it’s game over)Spectra Systems (LON:SPSY)Carclo (LON:CAR)Caledonia Mining (LON:…