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Midas share tips: Anaemic Dogs lag Footsie

Joanne Hart, Investment Editor of Financial Mail The Mail on Sunday's share-tipping column reviews its Dogs of the Footsie portfolio of highest-yielding stocks and sees it lose further ground. Against this backdrop, the Midas...

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Correction fears put investors on defensive

Cagey investors are piling into defensive funds which profit from shares going down as well as up. since the March low has tempted many investors to dip their toes back into the equity markets. Latest figures from the...

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Geertjan's Blog: Experian on the NetBeans Platform

Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Total revenue for the year ended 31 March 2009 was $3.9 billion. In Financial Applications on the NetBeans Platform I...

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Waitrose’s ‘chubby grocer’ tipped for Morrison job

WAITROSE boss Mark Price has emerged as a leading contender to replace Marc Bolland as the new chief executive of FTSE 100 supermarket giant Wm Morrison. It is likely that any pay deal offered by Morrison would dwarf the salary...

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Women directors earn 50pc less than men

Female board directors in the FTSE 350 are being paid half as much as their male counterparts, new research has found. The Reward Technology Forum (RTF) which compiled the study claimed that part of the explanation was that the...

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Fear of 'double dip' haunts global markets

Fund managers pull out of equities as gloom gathers over strength of recovery in UK and US Global stock markets are likely to come under renewed selling pressure this week as fears of a major correction in equity prices...

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Can the stock market go any higher?

What does the market hold for 2010? The FTSE 100 index has soared by more than 50pc since its low point this year on March 3 Photo: Shaun Curry Dismal returns on deposits helped push share prices to a 14-month high this week,...

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AdWords News: London close: Volatile Footsie closes lower - ShareCast

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Shares in miner Antofagasta resumed their position near the top of the leaderboard after a brief dip into negative territory that came as commodity prices slipped in line with strength in the US dollar. US...

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Shares not always fair since 2000

The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the...

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Thomas Cook is hit by fear of fundraising to pay debts

Peter Stiff: Market report Thomas Cook led the FTSE 100 lower yesterday amid fears that the travel group may hold a fundraising. Shares in Thomas Cook fell 9.3p to 209.2p after Morgan Stanley said that it thought there was a...

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