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...Repsol shares rose after the announcement but were down 1.6 per cent in morning trading as European oil and gas stocks fell 1.7 per cent....
...Izzy Englander’s New York-based fund made 25.6 per cent last year, its best performance in two decades, and is up more than 10 per cent through to the end of October this year....
...Michael Russell has rejoined Wilson Sonsini from Goodwin Procter as a corporate partner, and will co-lead the firm’s M&A practice with longtime partner Robert Ishii....
...$6.37 per share....
...By contrast, bitcoin, the most widely owned cryptocurrency market, was up nearly 6 per cent on Friday to more than $6,000....
...Shares were on track to close 9.6 per cent lower on the ASX and had been down as much as 10.4 per cent....
...Booker’s total annual sales of £5.3bn — a tenth of Tesco’s — were up 6.7 per cent. That is despite the tough economics of the convenience store market....
...These include: Geoff Unwin – the group’s chairman – Ian Cormack – its senior independent non-executive director – Saurabh Srivastava, Bill Thomas and Stephen Wilson....
...The company, which has committed itself to a progressive dividend policy, paid out $6.5bn in the 2015 financial year, 40 per cent of which went to UK shareholders....
...Capita, meanwhile, has seen its share price outperform the FTSE 100 over the past year, climbing more than 4 per cent compared with a 6 per cent fall for the UK large-cap index....
...He will be replaced by Hewlett-Packard executive Craig Wilson who will join the board this month....
...The interim dividend increased 1.5 per cent to 6.8p....
...The 270-year-old auction house, headquartered in New York, had in recent months come under attack from activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb and his Third Point fund, which owns 9.6 per cent of Sotheby’s....
...the Second Cap Table did not take into account approximately 3.7 million shares in the Company’s Long Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”), and thus understated the common stock outstanding by approximately 3.6...
...Underscoring the buoyancy of the London property sector, Songbird Estates said on Friday that the market value of its portfolio rose almost 15 per cent to £6.6bn in 2013, including a rise of almost 10 per...
...Mr Hester needs to nudge up RSA’s ratio of share price to book value as quoted by Bloomberg from 1.3 times towards Aviva at 1.6 times....
...This article has been amended to correct the spelling of Patrick McClymont and Harry Wilson’s names....
...Mick McGuire’s Marcato Capital Management holds a 6.6 per cent stake....
...Sotheby’s said neither Mr Loeb, nor his fellow nominees Harry Wilson and Olivier Reza, had art industry or auction house expertise, and its presentation again promised that it would extend a plan to return...
...“Investors are encouraged by Ireland’s improving economic prospects and the very attractive yields, which are 7 per cent for Dublin office and 6 per cent for retail property,” says Marie Hunt, CBRE head...
...However, a stake of about 6 per cent in the industrial group is held by Siemens family members. Most of the company is in the hands of international institutional investors....
...Annual sales would be higher than last year but growth would be short of the mid-term target of 6 per cent, Metro said, blaming the economy and a lower number of new stores....
...Sales rose 2.4 per cent to €31.2bn ($40.8bn), although the rise was 0.6 per cent in local currency terms....
...Shares in Deutsche Bank fell 4.6 per cent while shares in Postbank rose....
...Shares in Deutsche Bank fell 4.6 per cent on Friday while shares in Postbank rose....
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