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26 April 2021 | 16:37pm StockMarketWire.com - After struggling for direction for much of the day the FTSE 100 strengthened this afternoon, bolstered by a decent open on Wall Street. By the close the index was up 0.35% at 6,963.12 with the S&P 500 in the US gaining 0.3% to 4,192.63 by 4.30pm UK time. Educational publishing and services group Pearson gained 3% to 824.8p as its first-quarter sales grew 5% year-on-year, underpinned by online learning. Pearson stuck to its previous annual guidance. Publishing and events group Informa rose 3.7% to 570.6p following news that it had joined up with pr...

Yougov acquires open banking start-up Lean App The app's founders will stay on and become part of Yougov Data analytics firm Yougov has acquired open banking start-up Lean App to help improve its services with financial transaction data.  Lean App has been acquired by Yougov on a three year earn-out, tied to enriching and expanding the research company’s data in the UK and the US. Lean App’s founders – Luke Dugdale, Tom Stuart, Maz Lascombe and Artur Jurgenson – will all join Yougov as part of the deal. The transaction will allow Yougov to use financial data – such...

FTSE 100 flat amid fears over worsening Covid situation in India

Talk of freer transatlantic travel between Europe and the US boosted British Airways-owner IAG and ailing plane engine maker Rolls-Royce. The FTSE 100 groups and a host of other tourism stocks rose after Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said on Sunday that Americans who have been vaccinated against Covid should be able to travel to Europe by the summer. This was a surprise to some, who may have thought this was too early given that the EU's own vaccine programme is lagging behind that of the US and the UK. IAG and Rolls-Royce rose after EC president Ursula von der L...