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by Himanshu Singh on Mar 05, 2013 at 03:27
All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks
AstraZeneca PLC
- Transport Intelligence: Yusen Logistics announced it has secured a major contract renewal with AstraZeneca for the pan-European distribution of its prescription drugs
- Zolmax: AstraZeneca’s stock had its “underperform” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Credit Suisse in a report released on Monday
Barclays PLC
- IBTimes UK: Barclays has instructed two law firms to contact businesses disputing the sale of interest rate swap agreements with methods that breach the Solicitor's Code of Conduct, lawyers have told IBTimes UK
- Post Online: Barclays has selected Allianz as the provider of commercial SME products for its UK customers
- Bloomberg: Units of Barclays and Standard Chartered are among Zimbabwean banks that will need to submit final proposals of how they plan to meet local ownership laws by mid-March, a government agency said
- Bloomberg: Qiu Zhi Zhong, chairman of greater China at Barclays’ investment banking unit, has retired after spending more than three years at the UK’s second- largest bank
BP PLC
- Reuters: BP, which lost its first deal to drill for oil in Russia's Arctic to ExxonMobil, tried to negotiate a new deal with Russian state oil company Rosneft and was again beaten to the punch by its US rival
Debenhams PLC
- Bloomberg: Debenhams said fiscal first-half profit will miss estimates after January snowfall hurt sales and caused the retailer to offer deeper discounts to shift inventory; pretax profit is expected to fall to $180 million
GKN PLC
- Jags Report: GKN was upgraded by equities research analysts at Goldman Sachs to a “neutral” with price target on the stock fixed at $4.09, up from previous $2.93
HSBC Holdings PLC
- The Huffington Post: The HSBC banking group saw its net profits drop nearly 17% in 2012, but earnings remained robust at $13.5 billion as Asian businesses performed well
- Financial Times: HSBC’s management has all but ruled out a relocation of the bank’s headquarters to Hong Kong, stressing it is committed to keeping its domicile in the UK despite the threat of new European bonus restrictions
- The Guardian: HSBC paid 204 of its staff more than £1 million in 2012, despite being fined £1.2 billion by the US authorities on money laundering charges
- Financial Times: The chairman of HSBC defended his chief executive’s £1.95 million bonus for 2012 by arguing it was unfair to punish indiscriminately those charged with a turnround at the bank
- The Daily Telegraph: HSBC has become the first British bank to be given the green light by the financial regulator on its capital position, ahead of a report expected to identify shortfalls at several lenders
Lloyds Group PLC
- Financial Times: Lloyds Banking Group has once again been named as the bank attracting most complaints, the Financial Ombudsman Service has said
Rio Tinto PLC
- The Daily Telegraph: Gina Rinehart and Angela Bennett, two of the world's richest women, have overcome years of hostility and began a battle against mining giant Rio Tinto over iron ore riches worth at least £130 million
Royal Dutch Shell Plc
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