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 providing project financing to build a seawater desalination plant on Tortola, the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands

BP PLC

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• The Daily Telegraph: BP is to buy $2.9 billion worth of oil products from Rosneft the Russian state-controlled oil and gas giant
• Zacks: BP has awarded a five-year, multi-million pound contract to energy services company Wood Group ODL, effective January 2014

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

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• WKRB News & Analysis: GlaxoSmithKline’s stock had its ‘buy’ rating reiterated by equities researchers at Galvan Research in a research report issued on Monday; analysts have a $28.03 price target on the stock

Rio Tinto PLC

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• 4-traders: Northern Dynasty Minerals reports Rio Tinto has advised management that it intends to undertake a strategic review, including a possible divestment, of its shareholding in Northern Dynasty

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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• Bloomberg: Shell and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp raised their stake in an offshore Brazilian development by acquiring Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s share for $1.64 billion, Petrobras said

Unilever PLC

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• 4-traders: In the 2013 Brand Equity survey of Most Trusted Brands, three Hindustan Unilever brands - Clinic Plus at No. 3, Lifebuoy at No. 4 and Lux at No. 5 - feature in the Top 5 list