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Top stories
A Chinese property group is to build a luxury hotel on London's South Bank as part of a �700m investment, underlining the capital's attractions for foreign investors.
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee earlier this month voted unanimously to keep interest rates unchanged at a record low 0.5%, while three out of the nine members voted in favor of increasing the bank's asset ...
European stocks turned lower Wednesday as caution crept in ahead of a keenly anticipated decision on U.S. monetary policy and a speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, while the euro was steady against the dollar in what's expected to be ...
Although its Blacks Leisure and Millets chains saw an increase in like-for-like sales over recent months, that had been achieved at a "significant margin sacrifice", JD Sports said on Tuesday.
The news came as a Number 10's tax adviser warned that African countries are losing twice as much in avoided tax as they are getting in aid from the West.
Trends
| Gainers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MCRO | Micro Focus International plc | 7.50% | 1,039.01M |
| BKG | The Berkeley Group Holdings plc | 3.20% | 2,924.91M |
| INF | Informa PLC | 3.04% | 2,966.52M |
| CEO | Coastal Energy Company | 2.76% | 1,015.63M |
| ERM | Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC | 2.37% | 1,282.35M |
| Losers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| CPBB | Co-operative Bank plc | -5.66% | 4,100.00M |
| LRE | Lancashire Holdings Limited | -3.96% | 1,237.37M |
| AGK | Aggreko plc | -3.37% | 4,547.05M |
| TCY | TeleCity Group Plc | -3.10% | 1,959.58M |
| ECM | Electrocomponents plc | -3.08% | 1,088.89M |
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