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...Warner Bros weaves £100 million spell over UK film studio - Well-heeled tourists lift Selfridges - Bid to power Battersea with rates - Big guns head for a London float - Gala Coral...
...Oil stocks also moved higher, with Royal Dutch Shell up 1.1 per cent to £17.76 and BG Group 3.5 per cent higher to £11.64....
...BP, up 1.2 per cent to 554½p, drew support from a research note published by ABN Amro that claimed a merger with rival Royal Dutch Shell, 1 per cent stronger at £16.91, could generate synergies of $10.3bn...
...Speculation, not for the first time, that oil group Royal Dutch Shell could be running the slide rule over BG Group sent BG shares 3.8 per cent higher to 554½p....
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