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Analysts are worried clothing arm is relapsing in spite of vow to fix it by Steve Rowe
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Babcock International PLC
LON:BAB
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets with potential to become focus countries. We meet our customers’ key requirements of affordability, availability, and capability by delivering engineering, support and critical systems to defence and civil markets.
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FTSE 100 closes lower after Manchester attack
Despite events, the FTSE 100 remained relatively strong throughout the day but ended lower
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Marks & Spencer's womenswear woes under scrutiny again as retailers dominate
Week ahead: Marks & Spencer, Dixons Carphone, Kingfisher, De la Rue...
Babcock International selected as preferred bidder for around £360mln Royal Navy contract
The FTSE 100-listed firm will become a Marine Systems Support Partner for the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers and Type 45 Destroyers
Babcock to take reveue hit from 2020/21 on termination of Magnox decommissioning contract
Babcock said the change to the contract will result in the removal of around £800mln from its £20bln order book, “creating an annual step down in revenue of around £100m (less than 2% of the Group's turnover) from financial year 2020/21"
Babcock International boosted by Liberum Capital upgrade on "compelling" valuation
Liberum’s analysts raised their stance on the defence contractor to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ with an unchanged share price target of 960p
Babcock International's shares rise as it expects to meet full year targets
Babcock is confident of reaching full year targets and expects a stronger second half
FTSE 100 shares tip higher, engineers in vogue ahead of Trump card
FTSE 100 stocks ended on a high on Tuesday after rangebound trading for much of the session, with engineers leading light gains
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Day ahead: Trump's first speech to Congress key as tax plan news sought
Rather than give the annual State of the Union address, Trump is instead going to give a speech to both parts of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives – which is quite normal for first-year presidents.
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Week ahead: ITV set to broadcast results as quantity set to rule over quality
Having seen the big drugs, oils, and banking sectors dominate over the past few weeks, investors will have less FTSE 100 results to digest in the coming week.
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FTSE 100 closes higher with trio of miners as Dow marks 19,000
FTSE 100 shares ended higher on Tuesday thanks to a trio of miners, further lifted by Wall Street marking a flurry of record highs, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiking above 19,000 for the first time. The Dow hit a record 19,014.73
Kingfisher trading will be in focus on Tuesday
Kingfisher Plc, Homeserve PLC, Rotork PLC and Babcock International Group PLC are all in Tuesday's agenda
Chancellor's Autumn Statement is time for fiscal re-set
The new chancellor of the exchequer gets to set out his stall
Ascent Resources Plc soars amid possible takeover, Small Caps broadly edge up
Ascent Resources topped the small cap leader boards amid confirmation of a possible merger with Ukraine focussed Cadogan Petroleum.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC boss to quit in 2017 amid shake-up talk
Drug giant says Andrew Witty will go in March 2017
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Brokers: Oil services now worth a look suggests Jefferies
Petrofac, Debenhams, Interserve...
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FTSE100 ends lower on geopolitical conerns
The shooting-down of a Russian jet by Turkey unsettled traders
Downing of Russian jet shakes London shares
The FTSE 100 Index dropped 79.95 points to 6225 at lunchtime
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Airlines lose height as higher oil prices and terror fears weigh
Concern about higher fuel costs hit shares in airlines