17-05-2012

- Bank run speculation across Europe grips markets - Barroso wants Greece to stay in Eurozone - Moody's could downgrade Spanish banks

17-05-2012

Mining and financial stocks were providing a drag on the Footsie today, as investors continue to flee from 'risker' assets amidst the global economic uncertainty. Providing further downward pressure on the resources sector was US broker Jefferies after having slashed its target prices for mining stocks under its coverage by an average 10% after recent underperformance.

17-05-2012

- IMF tells Greece to stick to austerity - FOMC expresses concerns over euro crisis - Yields rise at Spanish bond auction, again

17-05-2012

Nomura has reiterated its buy recommendation and 600p target price for insurance group Aviva following its first-quarter results, saying that solvency ratios are stable and sales are solid.

17-05-2012

Nomura has reiterated its buy recommendation and 600p target price for insurance group Aviva following its first-quarter results, saying that solvency ratios are stable and sales are solid.

17-05-2012

African Barrick, Amlin, Aviva, Babcock, Brammer, Compass, HSBC, ICAP, Lamprell, TalkTalk, Tullett Prebon, Xchanging

17-05-2012

- Greek exit contagion fears grip markets again - ECB stops support for some Greek banks - FOMC reveal concerns over the euro crisis

17-05-2012

City sources predict the FTSE 100 will open up 14 points from yesterday's close of 5,405, tracking Asian stocks higher after Japan's economy expanded at an annualised rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter of the year.

17-05-2012

Aviva, the general insurer which recently lost its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after a shareholder revolt over pay, says it has made a solid start to 2012.

14-05-2012

All resolutions were passed at the annual general meeting (AGMs) of the insurance group RSA, including the vote on the remuneration report.

14-05-2012

A third of UBM shareholders have voted against plans for executive pay at the firm, making it the latest in a growing list of big firms to suffer backlashes against their remuneration reports.

13-05-2012

Greece's deputy prime minister has said the country will run out of money in six weeks unless it honours its bitterly-disputed EU bailout deal. Speaking exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph, Theodoros Pangalos said he was "very much afraid of what is going to happen" after Greek voters rejected the deal in elections last Sunday. "The majority of the people voted for a very strange mental construction," he said. "We want to be in the EU and the euro, but we don't want to pay anything for the past." The main beneficiary of the election, the hard-Left Syriza coalition, came a startling second on a promise to tear up the deal, which promises EU loans to keep massively-indebted Greece afloat, but demands crippling spending cuts in return. Germany, the principal lender, has said it will stop payments if Greece breaks its promises on spending.

11-05-2012

Although the City pages of Saturday's papers may focus on Centrica's trading patterns, outlined in a statement issued on Friday, the front page news is likely to be the energy provider's thinly veiled warning that fuel bills are set to go up later this year.

11-05-2012

Inspired by the courageous revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, British investors have been casting off the shackles of domination and casting votes against excessive executive pay awards

10-05-2012

Germany has threatened to halt vital financial aid to Greece unless a new government commits to the terms of the country's bail-out agreements. Ministers in Berlin warned that they would withhold international aid to Greece in a move which could trigger a fresh, damaging countdown to default in Athens. Amid escalating anger in Berlin over the anti-euro backlash following elections in Athens, Greece will on Thursday receive a 4.2bn euro (3.4bn pound) cash injection as part of its 130bn euro March bail-out. The Eurozone has blocked a further 1bn euro amid uncertainty over the country's political future. Athens, where the leader of the newly powerful Syriza party has vowed to reject the bail-out, is due to repay a 3.3bn euro bond next Friday, The Telegraph reports.

10-05-2012

Petra Diamonds, the diamond miner is still catching the eye of Questor in the Telegraph, who has been banging on about the stock for ages (it's currently tip of the year).

09-05-2012

The Telegraph's Questor column opines on Aviva - anyone vaguely interested in the markets will have heard that the firm's Chief Executive, Andrew Moss, left yesterday after a shareholder rebellion over pay.

08-05-2012

- Global stock markets plunge on Greek uncertainty - Footsie sinks to 19-week low - Miners lead the sell-off in London

08-05-2012

Jefferies has maintained its buy recommendation and 386p target price for insurance group Aviva following the announcement that its Chief Executive Officer Andrew Moss has quit.

08-05-2012

Tullow Oil jumped after it discovered further oil in the first exploration well at one of its Kenyan projects, increasing its potential 'significantly'. Following an announcement in March that the well had encountered in excess of 20m of net oil pay, the well was then deepened from 1,041m to 1,515m and a total pay count greater than 100m has now been discovered.