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Barclays PLC
- Financial Times: Barclays and Absa Group, one of South Africa’s top four banks, on Thursday said they planned to combine their Africa operations in a £1.3 billion deal
- The Guardian: Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, is in talks to join embattled Barclays in a senior role barely six months after the leaving the City regulator
BG Group PLC
- Financial Times: BG Group is exploring selling more assets linked to its $20 billion natural gas development in Australia
BP PLC
- Nola: BP is building the world's largest complex of supercomputers for commercial research in the US for processing and management of massive amounts of geological and seismic data
- Bloomberg: The BP-led Shah Deniz 2 natural gas project in Azerbaijan will cost $28 billion, up from the previous estimate of $25 billion
- Economic Times: BP, along with its partner Reliance Industries, has begun drilling on a satellite discovery surrounding the now flagging gas fields in the KG-D6 block in India
BT Group PLC
- Business Standard: BT Group plans to raise about $184.71 million by selling its remaining stake of 9.09% in India’s Tech Mahindra, a joint venture between BT and Mahindra & Mahindra
DS Smith PLC
- Financial Times: Pre-tax profit of DS Smith rose from £60.8 million to £88.9 million in the half to October 31 as sales went up almost two-thirds to £1.7 billion
First Quantum Minerals PLC
- The Northern Miner: First Quantum Minerals has started commercial production at its Kevitsa open-pit, nickel-copper mine in northern Finland
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
- Daily Political: GlaxoSmithKline’s stock had its “underperform” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Exane BNP Paribas with target price of $23.33
HSBC Holdings PLC
- The Daily Telegraph: HSBC is expected to pay more than $1.5 billion in fines to US authorities within weeks to settle money-laundering investigations into its business
Imagination Technologies Group PLC
- ShareCast: Stocks of Imagination Technologies Group rose 5.81% to 424.30 pence on Thursday after JP Morgan Chase reiterated its overweight rating on the stock
Lloyds Group PLC
- Scotsman: Lloyds Banking Group has sold a £778.6 million debt portfolio backing properties in Scotland and the north of England for just £390 million – a 50% discount
- The Guardian: Major City investors have issued a stark warning to the government that there is little chance of selling off the taxpayers' stakes in RBS and Lloyds
- Financial Times: High-street banks including Lloyds and RBS are still putting pressure on staff to sell high volumes of products to retail customers, despite recent mis-selling scandals
Micro Focus International PLC
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