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Women say they are being groped at events, abused on social media and belittled in their jobs.

Argentina’s Interior Minister Rogelio Frigerio said that President Mauricio Macri “is the one that sets the macroeconomic policy objectives, including the inflation target, but the policies to achieve that goal are an autonomous, independent decision …

How the UK’s big retailers are trying to reduce the amount of avoidable plastic waste they produce.

None of Scotland’s handful of FTSE 100 companies has a female chief executive and the 25% of directors who are female tend to be in non-executive roles. Sturgeon has, shrewdly, made women’s rights a priority for her leadership. Despite the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo …

Shares in the FTSE 100 supplier hit a record high on Friday after GKN rejected a £7bn approach from turnaround firm Melrose Industries. GKN said the “opportunistic” approach undervalued the business, and instead set out a plan to split in two. Also, it promoted former independent director Anne …

Even before the industrial turnaround outfit Melrose had spelt out the full details of its £7bn takeover plan for GKN, the FTSE 100 maker of parts for cars and planes, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable was decrying what he said would be “a massive blow to our industrial strategy”. Cable said he …

Like Donald Trump and his nuclear button, some company bosses seek validation in the size of their weaponry. How else to explain some of the unwieldy beasts we see on the FTSE 100? There is, of course, merit in diversification, but all too often takeov…

The CAC 40 in France rose 0.6 percent, the DAX in Germany edged up 0.1 percent and the FTSE 100 in London gained 0.4 percent. The next tests for companies will arrive in coming weeks, as they report their results for the last three months of 2017. Mean…

The former boss of GKN stands to make £9 million from a takeover of the car and plane parts manufacturer. Nigel Stein – who left the FTSE 100 company last month after more than five years in charge – could receive the windfall from his shares after turnaround specialist Melrose Industries made a £7 …

While the number of all-male boards has dropped in recent years, there are still very few women in top jobs, with more men named David, Steve or Stephen leading a FTSE 100 firm than there were female bosses in 2016. Sir Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Syst…

As of 14:47 GMT, Anglo American’s share price had added 2.69 percent to 1,746.20p, outperforming the broader United Kingdom market, with the benchmark FTSE 100 index having slipped marginally into the red and now standing 0.01 percent lower at 7,747.54 points. They expect $0.71 EPS, down …

More interesting news about ANTOFAGASTA PLC SPN (OTCMKTS:ANFGY) were released by: Marketwatch.com and their article: “FTSE 100 ends lower as retailers lose ground” published on June 27, 2017 as well as Marketwatch.com’s news article titled: “FTSE 100 ends in the red, but Worldpay soars …

The government is in talks over the future of the firm, which builds schools, prisons and railways.

More notable recent ANTOFAGASTA PLC SPN (OTCMKTS:ANFGY) news were published by: Benzinga.com which released: “Unexpected Countries Could Rise As Latin America’s New Mining Champions” on September 23, 2016, also Marketwatch.com with their article: “Banks rise, but FTSE 100 fails …

Shares in Paddy Power Betfair fell nearly 3pc to about £85 in early trading yesterday in London, where the company is a member of the FTSE-100. The firm has “Buy” rating by HSBC given on Wednesday, April 13. About 73,561 shares traded. While conceding that Paddy Power Betfair has strong …

MiFID II
I’ve heard a lot of discussion, and moaning, from my friends amp; contacts in the City over recent months, concerning the apparently onerous regulatory changes being introduced by the EU’s MiFID II (Markets In Financial Instruments Directive)….

The FTSE 100 hit a record high on its first day of trading in the new year and has kept on climbing, surging past the 7,200 mark. In the US, the Dow Jones industrial average raced past 25,000 last week. Even the Japanese stock market, for years an unde…

With the economic headwinds gathering around the UK, 2017 proved to be a year to forget for Barclays (LSE: BARC). The banking giant saw its share price reverse 9% during the course of the year and, while the FTSE 100 share ended the year with a flouris…

It’s official – we’re all getting older! But before you go ahead and accuse me of stating the obvious, let me explain what I REALLY mean. You may have heard on many occasions the old saying about the only certainty in life being death (and taxes), but it seems that on average we’re all living longer, and …

But the FTSE 100 medical technology giant contributes a whole lot more than just orthopaedic reconstruction, with other facets of the business providing advanced wound management, sports medicine and trauma implant systems. With annual sales reaching a…

FTSE 100 marketing giant WPP (LSE: WPP) is another stock I’ve been watching in recent months. A poor 2017 left its share price languishing just north of the £13 mark — 30% lower than it was one year ago. A reduction in spending by some of the largest consumer products companies, including …

On the London stock exchange, you might go for a tracker fund that follows the FTSE 100 index or the FTSE 250 index, for example, and one candidate is the Vanguard FTSE 100 ETF. However, several options exist to put your money into a collective investm…

The average forward P/E for the FTSE 100 is currently 15.1, suggesting that Diageo shares are on the expensive side. How about the P/E-to-growth (PEG) ratio? This compares a company’s valuation to its growth, and is calculated by dividing the trailing P/E ratio by the expected growth rate. A ratio under …

The Daily Telegraph: The directors of FTSE 100 engineering giant GKN face a battle to convince shareholders they can improve its performance after rejecting a £7 billion takeover bid from turnaround specialists Melrose. Financial Times: Two of the biggest US banks, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase, …

In Europe, Germany’s DAX fell 0.1 percent to 13,196 while Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.2 percent to 7,777. The Baker-Hughes rig count will be released tomorrow along with retail sales data and the latest consumer price index (CPI) in the U.S. France and India will also report CPI on Friday. In the account …

STRUCTURED products have been gaining in popularity recently, if increased sales are anything to go by. A typical product currently in the market is offering a return of 4.35 per cent per annum over five years so long as the FTSE 100 index does not fal…

UK’s benchmark FTSE 100 closed up by 0.2 percent, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 ended the day down by 0.23 percent, Germany’s Dax ended down by 0.6 percent, France’s CAC finished the day down by 0.3 percent. Safe-haven assets such as gold and the yen firmed up ahead of earnings from …

The German DAX declined 0.6% and France’s CAC 40 index slid 0.3% while the UK’s FTSE 100 edged up 0.2%. The US dollar index traded marginally lower on Friday, extending the notable losses it posted on Thursday on the back of weaker-than-expected US producer price data and a stronger euro.

The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index logged a record close by rising 0.2% to 7,762.94. Germany’s 10-year bond yield hit a fresh five-month high of 0.539 per cent after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats agreed a blueprint for formal coalition negotiations, news that also buoyed …

UK) has about 700 stores that sell clothes, shoes, and home furnishings, and runs a growing online unit that reaches roughly 70 countries, including the U.S. The shares, a constituent of the FTSE 100, might be offering a good deal to investors. The Lei…