Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest

All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks

Barclays PLC

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• Bloomberg: Barclays is offering exchange-traded notes tied to an index of master-limited partnerships and limited liability companies that specialize in energy transportation and storage

BP PLC

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• Fox Business: BP's oil trading division, the alma mater for a generation of the world's top traders and a former cash-generating machine, is under greater scrutiny after becoming a weak link for the oil major

HSBC Holdings PLC

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• Fox Business: HSBC Holdings on Thursday said HSBC Life Assurance (Malta) has agreed to enter into a Portfolio Transfer Agreement with HSBC Life (Europe) for the acquisition of HLE's insurance policy book for nil consideration

Prudential PLC

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• Zolmax: Prudential’s stock had its ‘underperform’ rating restated by analysts at BNP Paribas in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday

Reed Elsevier PLC

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• 4-traders: Reed Elsevier has purchased 300,000 units of its own ordinary shares at a price of 740.1222 pence per share

Rio Tinto PLC

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• Sydney Morning Herald: Mongolian officials have tried to calm fears that disagreements between the government and Rio Tinto would delay a planned June start of commercial production at the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine
• Bloomberg: The government of Guinea, home to Africa’s largest iron ore deposit, said it’s making progress on an agreement to share investment in the $10 billion project with Rio Tinto Group
• Fox Business: Rio Tinto is in exclusive talks to sell two French aluminum plants to privately-held German company Trimet Aluminium AG, French daily Les Echos reported in its Thursday edition

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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• Daily Mail: Shell boss Peter Voser bagged a pay and shares deal worth up to £8 million for 2012, according to the oil giant’s annual report
• LA Times: Federal regulators said on Thursday they would not allow Shell to resume exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska until the company comes up with a detailed operations program and management plan
• ABC News: Shell was not fully prepared when it launched its trouble-plagued Arctic offshore drilling programme last year, and the oil company also fell short in overseeing key contractors in the effort, according to a federal report released Thursday

Xstrata PLC

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• Sydney Morning Herald: Freight rail operator Aurizon has won a coal haulage contract in Queensland, Australia, with mining giant Xstrata