The FTSE 100 finished the day 0.6% lower at 9,675.71, led by heavy falls from blue chips Rightmove and IAG. The index is now sitting around 1% below Wednesday's all-time closing high of 9,777.08.

(Alliance News) - Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC shares surged on Friday as it set out upbeat guidance for the full-year. The Oxford-based specialist in DNA and RNA sequencing technologies said 2025 ...

(Alliance News) - Greencore Group PLC's buy of Bakkavor Group PLC looks set to be green lit, after the UK's antitrust watchdog on Friday said it agreed "in principle" to accept remedies aimed at ...

KKR also announced that Andrew Williams will become chair and Pat Murphy vice chair of Project Aurora Topco Ltd, the parent company that will oversee Spectris after completion of the takeover. Neither ...

ITV PLC on Friday confirmed it is in the early stages of talks to sell its Media & Entertainment arm to Comcast Corp-owned Sky in a deal worth GBP1.6 billion. ITV shares jumped 16% to 78.31 pence each ...

NAV total return was 14.1% in the financial year ended July 31, outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets index with net dividends reinvested in sterling terms, which had a return of 13.7 ...

(Alliance News) - Moonpig Group PLC on Friday said it has launched a new share buyback programme of up to GBP30 million to return excess capital to shareholders and reduce its share capital. The ...

(Sharecast News) - London stocks had extended losses by midday on Friday, dragged lower by Rightmove and IAG and as concerns about a potential AI bubble continued to weigh on investors' minds. The ...

(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-caps on Friday.

For October, the average price was GBP299,862, up 0.6% from September and 1.9% higher than a year ago. The changes beat the FXStreet-cited consensus, which was for an on-month increase of 0.1% and a 1 ...

IG says futures indicate the FTSE 100 to open down 6.3 points, 0.1%, at 9,729.48. The index of London large-caps closed down 41.30 points, 0.4%, at 9,735.78.

Philadelphia-based Comcast sees the potential to combine ITV's TV business with Sky, which the US group bought in 2018, to create a leading streaming service in the UK, FT sources said. Talks are at ...