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LON:INF
Informa PLC is a provider of specialist information to the academic and scientific, professional and commercial communities globally through publishing, events and performance improvement (PI). The company is organised into three operating divisions: Academic and Scientific, Professional and Commercial. The Academic and Scientific division provides a portfolio of publications, events and data services for academic and commercial users in the scientific, technical and medical areas, and humanities and social sciences areas. The Professional division includes financial data analysis, PI, diagnostics and customized training for corporate and government organizations, and finance, insurance, law and tax based in the United Kingdom and Holland. The Commercial division provides print, electronic, and consultancy services and events to the telecoms and media markets, and the maritime and commodities industries.
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The Conservative Party leadership contest was decided by a relatively convincing margin of 92,153 votes to 46,656, while Love Island commands consolidated viewing figures of more than 5mln
The US bank's analysts ramped up their share price target to 1,150p from 870p for the advertising group as organic growth is expected to improve in the second half of the year
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The UK's blue-chip benchmark added over 23 points to close at 7,184
“Informa has performed well through the first four months of the year, with steady trading across our enlarged portfolio of specialist international brands”
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The UK benchmark added over 46 points at 7,277, but over the week the index dropped 0.96%
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The main focus for the Day Ahead will be trading updates from FTSE 100-listed events and business publisher Informa and FTSE 250-listed engineer Spectris
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The FTSE 100 index closed 37.62 points, or 0.5% lower at 7,434.13, albeit above the session low of 7,405.99 as US stocks continued to post big falls on Thursday
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Aside from Barclays numbers, the Day Ahead will also bring updates from the likes of Taylor Wimpey and RELX, plus the final CMA decision on the planned Sainsbury's/Asda merger
Analysts at the US investment banking giant think Informa shares look cheap compared to its peers
Informa boasted of continued progress across all of its operating divisions in 2018
"Brutal cuts from the ECB as GDP growth for 2019 is cut from 1.7% to 1.1%. With this in mind, it seems like any possible interest rate raises are all but completely ruled out until likely 2021," declared Jordan Hiscott, the chief trader at
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Results from Aviva, Admiral, Greggs and Premier Oil are all in the diary for Thursday.
The publishing and events organiser last week reported a 3.9% rise in underlying revenue for the first 10 months of the year
"At Informa, we remain focused on delivering improving growth and returns, whilst effectively combining UBM into the Informa Group to create brands and platforms for future growth and scale," said Stephen Carter, the group chief executive o
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The UK's index of leading shares finished around 35 points lower at 7,105 on the day
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A host of data releases should give a much clearer picture of where the UK economy stands with the country on the brink of hopefully inking a Brexit deal
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Aside from the US elections and Fed policy meeting, updates from UK blue-chip retailers J Sainsbury, Wm Morrison Supermarkets and Marks & Spencer should draw the most attention in the coming week
Sky News reported that Philip Jansen is believed to be the preferred candidate to replace Patterson, who revealed in June he would stepping-down towards the end of this year
All four of the non-UBM divisions achieved revenue growth with the Academic division's organic growth of 3.5% catching the eye
The UK blue-chip index closed around 50 points lower at 7,658, while FTSE 250 was also down - over 99 points at 20,753
