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...International Power gained 3.7 per cent to 430½p, Severn Trent added 2.8 per cent to £14.53 and Imperial Tobacco moved up 1.4 per cent to £23.66....
...Severn Trent rose 5.6 per cent to £14.46, United Utilities moved up 4.6 per cent to 703½p, Northumbrian Water jumped 10.1 per cent to 329¾p and Pennon moved up 5.7 per cent to 632p....
...The work at Rugby is part of a £415m ($818m, €555m) project to remodel the track layout at a key junction and to expand the Rugby-Stafford Trent Valley section of the line to four tracks....
...United Utilities gained 2.4 per cent to 767½p, Scottish & Southern Energy added 2.3 per cent to £16.59, Severn Trent rose 2.2 per cent to £15.82 and British Energy closed up 2 per cent at 528½p....
...And it proved to be, with Severn Trent rising 2.3 per cent to £14.66 and Kelda climbing 4.1 per cent to 929½p....
...Rolls-Royce managed to buck the weak market trend, with its shares advancing 2.1 per cent to 527½p Traders said the rise was not just down to an $800m order from International Lease Finance Corp for its Trent...
...Severn Trent defied the downward trend in London on Friday as traders built positions ahead of a key regulatory ruling....
...UBS lifted its stance on Kelda from “reduce” to “neutral” while its top picks in the sector were Severn Trent and Northumbrian Water Group....
...Rolls-Royce climbed 2.5 per cent to a record high of 565p after winning a deal from International Lease Finance Corporation to power 40 Boeing 787 Dreamliners with its Trent 1000 engines....
...Kelda Group lost 0.6 per cent to £10.15½, Severn Trent slipped 0.9 per cent to £15.56 while United Utilities bucked the trend, up 0.5 per cent to 772½p....
...Severn Trent rose 1.2 per cent to £15.35, while Kelda firmed up 0.6 per cent to 982p, Pennon added 1.5 per cent to 630½p and Northumbrian Water gained 2 per cent to 331¼p on rumours of imminent corporate...
...Severn Trent, which Dresdner said was the “most open to being acquired”, firmed up 0.4 per cent to £15.63 ahead of full-year figures on Wednesday....
...The broker said Pennon and Severn Trent were the only two water companies susceptible to bids....
...Severn Trent rose 4.8 per cent to £14.82 on the view that yesterday’s demerger of its waste business, Biffa, which closed at 260p, left it vulnerable to a bid....
...On the downside, Severn Trent fell 2.9 per cent to £14.37 as analysts said it was unlikely that any of the underbidders for Thames would bid for the utility company....
...been tipped as a merger partner for Scottish Power in the past, gained 4.7 per cent to £14.10, while International Power rose 3 per cent to 344¼p, National Gridclimbed 2.1 per cent to 686½p, and Severn Trent...
...Excited by talk that financial buyers were behind the move for AWG, investors chased Kelda, the parent company of Yorkshire Water, up 3p to 836½p, and Severn Trent, 2.2 per cent higher to £13.48....
...Meanwhile, talk of a private equity bid for Severn Trent was being scotched by UBS....
...On the downside, United Utilities fell 3.3 per cent to 630p, while Severn Trent eased 3.1 per cent to £11.35 as both stocks were quoted without entitlement to their latest dividend payment....
...Water group Pennon rose 2.3 per cent to £13.54, excited by news that FTSE 100 rival Severn Trent is to spin-off Biffa, its waste management business....
...The leading fallers were oil stocks and utilities, with BG Group down 2.5 per cent to 484p and Severn Trent off 1.4 per cent to 613p....
...The Scottish Power bid and investors’ desire to get exposure to the defensive qualities of the sector saw Severn Trent add 2.2 per cent to £10.17, National Grid rise 2.1 per cent to 549p and Kelda Group...
...Severn Trent lead the FTSE 100 with a gain of 2.2 per cent to 924.5p after JP Morgan upgraded its recommendation to “overweight”....
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