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by Himanshu Singh on Dec 20, 2012 at 03:11
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks
Afren PLC
- StockMarketWire: Afren chariman Egbert Imomoh sold post-exercise 200,000 shares in the company at a price of 127.23 pence each; the director now holds 3,972,246 shares
Barclays PLC
- The Daily Telegraph: Barclays has "made a big mistake" in offering its new compliance officer, Hector Sants, a pay package reportedly worth as much as £3 million, former treasury minister Lord Myners has warned
BG Group PLC
- The Observer: Dr Stuart Alfred Fysh, a former executive vice-president of BG Group, has been jailed for insider trading relating to a $640,000 deal involved shares in BG Group subsidiary, Queensland Gas Company
BP PLC
- Wall Street Journal: BP agreed on Wednesday to sell its 34.3% stake in the Yacheng gas field located in the China South Sea to state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company for $304 million
- Fox Business: BP will perform routing maintenance work on a gasoline production unit at its refinery in Texas City, Texas, the company said in a government filing made public Wednesday
BT Group PLC
- The Guardian: BT has awarded the £100 millio-plus contract to produce its live coverage of Premier League football and Premiership rugby union matches to Sunset+Vine
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
- The Daily Telegraph: GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay US drug wholesalers $150 million, after they claimed the company improperly maintained a market monopoly of its nasal spray by restricting access to less expensive versions
National Grid PLC
- The Independent: National Grid has awarded £3.1 billion worth of contracts to companies including the construction group Balfour Beatty to upgrade its gas distribution systems
- BBC: Pylons should not be built in north Wales as part of National Grid plans to extend the electricity infrastructure, the National Trust says
Smith & Nephew PLC
- Zenopa: Smith and Nephew has announced the launch of its new Truclear Ultra Reciprocating Morcellator 4.0, the latest addition to its innovative Truclear system
Vedanta Resources PLC
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