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22 February 2021 | 07:08am StockMarketWire.com - Pub group Mitchells & Butlers, while launching a planned £350 million equity raising, said its sales had fallen sharply due to the UKs Covid-19 lockdown. Managed sales between 27 September and 16 January had dropped 70% year-on-year, the company said. On a like-for-like basis -- for sites when open, excluding periods of closure -- trading was down 30%. Mitchells & Butlers said none of its sites had been open since the government announced fresh ...

22 February 2021 | 16:38pm StockMarketWire.com - Details of the UKs reopening plan helped give the FTSE 100 a lift on Monday afternoon with the index recovering earlier heavier losses to trade down just 0.18% at 6,612.24. Hospitality, retail and travel stocks all rallied with pubs group JD Wetherspoon up 8.7% to £13.43, budget airline Jet2 rising 7.2% to £13.14 and WH Smith gaining 6% to £17.85. By 4.30pm UK time the S&P 500 was down 0.6% to 3,884.42. Security group G4S slumped 9.8% to 242.6...

22 February 2021 | 08:36am StockMarketWire.com - UK stocks opened lower on Monday as rising US bond yields and inflation fears tempered Covid vaccine optimism. At 0824, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 56.45 points, or 0.9%, at 6,567.57. Security group G4S slumped 9.7% to 242.8p after private equity firm GardaWorld said it wouldnt raise its 235p offer for the company, cooling hopes of a bidding war. G4S had rejected GardaWorlds offer in favour of 245p bid from Allied Universal. Pharmaceuti...

22 February 2021 | 12:05pm StockMarketWire.com - The FTSE 100 made a partial recovery on Monday despite investors continuing to fret about inflation risks. By midday the index had recovered around half of its initial losses to trade 0.45% lower at 6,594.41. Some support to sentiment was provided by mounting evidence of the efficacy of vaccines ahead of the UK reopening plan set to be announced later. Security group G4S slumped 9.8% to 242.6p after private equity firm GardaWorld said it wouldn...

UK stocks open 1% higher on vaccine optimism; oil strength

FTSE 100 surges 2.5% as oil pushes towards $65 per barrel

FTSE pops higher on vaccine hopes and oil price strength

We saw the president express his outrage over this chemical attack in syria. the question of whether the u.s. will actually do anything about this attack, thats still up in the air. president trump sailed into office on tough talk but faced with his first international crisis, its unclear what action, if any, the u.s. will take in response. >> militarily, i dont like to say where im going and what im doing, but im certainly not going to be telling you. >> after meeting with king ab l abdullah of...