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Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest
by Himanshu Singh on Feb 06, 2013 at 04:20
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks
Barclays PLC
- Financial Times: Barclays is to cut its bonus pool after a year of expensive scandals at the bank which is expected to cost it over £3 billion
- Financial Times: Barclays has sold the business loans portfolio of its shuttered Indian retail division to Kotak Mahindra Bank for an undisclosed amount
BG Group PLC
- The Daily Telegraph: BG Group reported a 12% fall in pre-tax profits for 2012 to $6.4 billion, in large part because of previously announced write-downs on the value of US shale gas assets
- Reuters: BG Group abandoned its ambitions to become a 1-million-barrels-a-day oil and gas producer by 2015 on Tuesday as it took further stock of setbacks that have hammered its share price in the past three months
- Nasdaq: The Jasmine field, an important North Sea oil-and-gas field, will open in the fourth quarter of 2013, helping to drive up BG Group’s production, the company said
BP PLC
- Bloomberg: BP’s fourth quarter net income fell to $1.6 billion from $7.7 billion a year earlier as oil and natural gas production slipped
- Financial Times: BP is facing damages demands of more than $34 billion from US states and local government over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, a figure that could lead to significant upward revisions of its potential bill for the Gulf of Mexico spill
Diageo PLC
- The Hindu: Diageo has got the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s clearance for an open offer to acquire 26% stake from public shareholders of United Spirits, a UB group firm
- The Hour: Diageo further confirmed its commitment to the environment by making the switch to begin using electricity from 100% renewable sources at its Norwalk headquarters in the US
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
- MarketWatch: GlaxoSmithKline has successfully increased its stake in GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, its publicly-listed Consumer Healthcare subsidiary in India, to 72.5%, from 43.2%
- Financial Times: The campaign to persuade drug companies to release all clinical trial data received a boost on Tuesday, when GlaxoSmithKline declared that it would disclose much more background information about its trials
Premier Oil PLC
- StockMarketWire: Premier Oil Financial Director Anthony Durrant has bought 33 shares in the company at a price of 381.50 pence; the director now holds 774,727 shares
Rotork PLC
- Process and Control Today: Rotork has announced the acquisition of the entire share capital of the operating companies of the Schischek group
BP PLC
- Wall Street Journal: BP ceded its spot as the biggest crude-oil producer in US Gulf of Mexico federal waters to rival Shell as BP's 2012 output declined due to major maintenance work and asset sales
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