28-03-2018

Analysts at Credit Suisse bumped up their target price for Barclays's shares on the back of the positive impact from recent tax reforms in the States.

20-03-2018

Analysts at JP Morgan Cazenove reiterated their 'overweight' stance and 250p target price for shares of Barclays following activist shareholder Sherbourne's disclosure of a 5.2% stake in the outfit and a meeting with its finance chief, Tushar Morzaria.

20-03-2018

Micro Focus: JP Morgan downgrades to underweight with a target price of 900p.

20-03-2018

The Financial Conduct Authority has underlined its readiness to clamp down on banks' high overdraft charges that disproportionately affect the least well-off.

19-03-2018

1700:Close The top tier index started the week on a weak note amid a near perfect storm of pound strength, soft base metals' prices, a twitter-storm on Capitol Hill at the weekend and ongoing trade and geopolitical frictions. Somewhat ironically, the chief trigger behind the downdraft in London-listed stocks was a relative 'positive' for the economy, in the form an understanding between Brussels and Westminster on the broad contours of the post-Brexit transition deal. If for metals it was narrower gains in Chinese house prices, by regions, that appeared to do the trick, in the tech space it was news of increased scrutiny on the part of from authorities in the UK, EU and US into big techs' use of client data that undermined sentiment towards the sector, globally, resulting in big losses for Facebook and Google shares. Back home, losses in the tech space centred on Micro Focus, whose shares nearly halved in value, and Sophos Group. Over in the States meanwhile, investors were also digesting the news-flow over the weekend concerning the Russia probe.

19-03-2018

Barclays rallied on Monday as it emerged that Edward Bramson's activist investment fund, Sherborne Investors, has acquired 5.2% of the voting rights in the bank.

16-03-2018

London's FTSE 100 was lifted by financials and commodity stocks on Friday, with the index up 0.62% to 7,183.99.

13-03-2018

Randgold Resources: Canaccord upgrades to buy with a target price of 7,000p

05-03-2018

Tesco: Jefferies upgrades to buy with a target price of 250p.

27-02-2018

The Financial Conduct Authority has announced new rules for credit card lenders designed to save distressed borrowers up to £1.3bn a year in interest charges.

22-02-2018

Barclays declared its intention to more than double dividend payouts in 2018 to 6.5p per share after lower costs helped lift profits last year - though they were still slightly short of analyst's forecasts.

12-02-2018

Barclays' core banking business has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office over its fundraising deal with Qatar at the height of the financial crisis, adding to the charges already brought against the parent holding company and four former executives.

31-01-2018

The Financial Conduct Authority has warned banks and other lenders it is concerned about fees they charge customers for unauthorised overdrafts.

22-01-2018

Shares in Barclays were boosted on Monday after news that a US hedge funds had made a £1bn bet on the bank's rebound.

09-01-2018

Parliament has warned Barclays not to halt payouts to 80,000 customers who were mis-sold credit card plans or it could lead to customers being entitled to compensation of £200m.