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by Himanshu Singh on May 01, 2012 at 04:53
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks
AstraZeneca PLC
- Business Journal: AstraZeneca has formally notified Targacept that it will dissolve its collaboration and license agreement for the anti-depression drug TC-5214 that they had been working on together
Barclays PLC
- Daily Telegraph: Barclays has formed a $250 million strategic partnership with Qatar Asset Management Company to invest in natural resource projects across the world
BP PLC
- The Guardian: BP is planning to start three new oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico this year
- Fox Business: The senior BP executive accused of taking cash payments in return for giving sweetened tanker chartering terms has been suspended pending the outcome of an inquiry
Centrica PLC
- Financial: The transaction following Statoil’s divestment and exit from several licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in November last year is now closed; StatOil said the buyer was Centrica and the consideration was $1.525 billion
HSBC Holdings PLC
- Stockmarketwire: HSBC's board has declared a first interim dividend of $0.09 per ordinary share for the year ending 31 December 2012; the dividend is payable on 5 July
Hunting PLC
- RTTNews: Hunting has announced completion of the sale of Hunting Canadian Airport Holdings, and its subsidiaries including Field Aviation for a consideration of 7.5 million pounds to Amavco
Lloyds Banking Group PLC
- Financial Times: Lloyds is poised to increase its £3.2 billion provision to cover loan insurance claims last year in the latest sign of the rapidly rising mis-selling costs facing lenders
- The Guardian: Lloyds Banking Group is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has edged back into profit in the first quarter of 2012
- The Daily Telegraph: Profits at Lloyds are forecast to fall 16% next year as the banks face higher funding costs, as a result of their downgrades by Moody's
- The Independent: Lloyds is understood to have received an initial multi-billion-pound bid approach for Scottish Widows, its life assurance, pensions and savings business
Royal Dutch Shell Plc
- O&G Journal: Shell announced plans for one of its subsidiaries to buy Cove Energy for $1.81 billion in a transaction marking Shell's entry into Mozambique and Kenya
- O&G Journal: Shell has let a $30 million contract to Rolls-Royce to supply two industrial RB211 gas turbines to boost gas output from Malampaya deepwater natural gas field offshore the Philippines
- Reuters: Shell and Iogen Corp have scrapped plans for a commercial-scale biofuel plant in Manitoba, spelling the loss of 150 jobs
- Reuters: Shell had an operational upset on Monday at its 75,000 barrel per day refinery at Sarnia, Ontario
Unilever PLC
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