FTSE 100 shares soft but Randgold and small caps jump
FTSE 100 stocks ended lower with sombre Wall Street shares on Monday although gold miner Randgold Resources was the stand out gainer while small-caps scaled record highs
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Lloyds Banking Group PLC
LON:LLOY
Lloyds Banking Group has many household names like Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows. Lloyds Banking Group is a leading UK based financial services group providing a wide range of banking and financial services, focused on personal and commercial customers. The Group’s main business activities are retail, commercial and corporate banking, general insurance, and life, pensions and investment provision. The Group operates the UK’s largest retail bank and has a large and diversified customer base.
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Market has Lloyds Bank all wrong, says Jefferies as it upgrades
The US broker has now set 82p (from 67p) as its fair value mark
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Sex parties, exotic holidays, and cash-filled brown envelopes fuelled £245mln banking fraud
Two former HBOS bankers and four other people were yesterday found guilty of a major fraud which contributed to losses that led to the taxpayer-funded rescues of several UK banks.
Taxpayers' stake in Lloyds falls below 5% after government sells more shares
Lloyds said the UK Treasury has reduced its shareholding to approximately 3.57bn shares down from the 4.24bn shares it held previously.
FTSE 100 shares fall after Trump’s travel ban order
FTSE 100 shares ended lower on Monday, following falls in Asia and Europe after President Donald Trump's decision to impose a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries
Cyber criminals targeted Lloyds Banking Group websites with 'denial of service' attack
According to media reports, Britain's largest mortgage lender was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on January 11, which carried on for two days.
UBS is upbeat on Lloyds but says Brexit is a ‘sentiment risk’
“As Britain prepares to invoke Article 50 to begin the process of negotiating its exit from the EU it seems right to assume that sentiment, and perhaps Sterling too, will be volatile,” he added.
Deutsche says Lloyds Banking Group has limited upside
DB says Lloyds shares are already close to fair value, even though the MBNA deal has boosted the bank.
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FTSE ends lower as 14 days of highs peter out
FTSE 100 index closed down 0.2% at 7,327 on Monday, as the 14-session record high winning streak crashed after shares in banks and oil companies slipped
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Trending - Lloyds edging back to private hands and Aldi popping corks on Christmas sales
A look at some of the hot, trending stories of the day
FTSE 100 hits fresh record high as sterling sags
FTSE 100 stocks closed at a record high on Monday, extending from its feat last week, as it marked the eighth successive record peak, largely thanks to a weakening pound
FTSE 100 stocks close at record high as sterling slips again
FTSE 100 stocks closed the week robustly, reversing initial losses to chalk a fresh record high on Friday – its seventh consecutive day – as further sterling falls benefited blue-chip companies
Market movers - Panmure shares rise; Horizon Discovery in focus
The gas storage specialist InfraStrata was top London gainer on Friday
Lloyds Banking Group receives boost as Barclays upgrades rating
Analysts at the bank have hiked their stance for Lloyds to ‘overweight’ from ‘equal-weight' and raised their share price target to 75p from 55p.
FTSE 100 in positive territory, Panmure spike a mystery
Footsie was expected to hit another high today, but it has not happened yet
Sirius Minerals named among the ‘top tips’ for 2017
Here we take a look at the medium and small cap companies included among Fleet Street's top stock market tips for 2017.
FTSE 100 and small-cap stocks chalk record highs
FTSE 100 and small-cap stocks ended at fresh record highs on Tuesday, the first session of 2017, after being buoyed by higher Wall Street on bullish US factory data, 18-month high oil prices and even bumper Chinese data
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FTSE 100 closes on new high, boosted by precious metals miners
The 'Santa rally' and a strong showing from miners meant the UK premier index closed up around 37 points
Big credit card bill: Lloyds Banking Group buys MBNA UK for £1.9bn in cash
Lloyds anticipates it will be able to deliver £100mln in annual cost synergies from the integration within two years, around 30% of the total cost base for MBNA in 2015.