Deal news helps to lift the pharmaceutical sector while the wider markets are buoyed by promising employment data ahead of the big monthly payrolls report
Category: Business
Plans to revise US share registry rule under way
A lobby is under way to change a rule which requires companies with 500 investors or more to register their shares, potentially making it easier for companies such as Facebook…
FTSE lifted by hopes of rising M&A activity
Shares in London jumped at the open on Wednesday thanks to a flurry of merger and acquisition activity
S&P further downgrades Portugal as default risk rises
Standard & Poor’s has cut Portugal’s credit rating for the second time in less than a week to one level above junk status after the collapse of the Socialist government…