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Friday Morning Markets: FTSE Edges Higher as IG Tumbles and Brent Holds Near $100

The FTSE 100 is up 0.2% in early trading on Friday, after Thursday's 1.7% fall

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IG Group Shares Plunge: Now Expects Mid-Single-Digit 2026 Revenue Growth as Q3 Falls 14%

IG Group shares plunged on Friday as it said less of its customer trading flow turned into revenue in the third quarter, even as new customers kept arriving, and it now expects 20

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CMC Markets Shares Post Their Largest Fall in Six Months

CMC Markets shares fell 7.97% in morning trade in London today, their largest one-session fall in six months, leaving them at 605.55p by 08:14 London time.

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AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Team With Summit on Datroway Combination Trials

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo will test their Datroway cancer drug alongside Summit Therapeutics' ivonescimab, starting with a Phase III breast cancer trial. No financial terms a

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IP Group Banks £21m From Oxford Nanopore Stake Sale, Keeps 7.23%

IP Group has sold 10m Oxford Nanopore shares for about £21m after a roughly 73% three-month rally in the stock, while keeping a 7.23% stake in the company.

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Wizz Air September Passengers Rise 24.2% as Pricing Firms and Load Factor Dips

Wizz Air carried almost a quarter more passengers in September than a year earlier, while its load factor dipped slightly as the airline grew seats faster than demand and pricing

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Plus500 Shares Suffer Second-Largest Daily Fall in Six Months

Plus500 shares were down 5.62% at 3,224p by 8:00am London time today, trading at the lowest point of a session that has so far ranged up to 3,298p.

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Broadcom Banks Start Assembling $60bn AI Chip Financing for Anthropic, Bloomberg Reports

Bloomberg reports that Broadcom's banks are starting to assemble about $60bn of AI chip financing for Anthropic and others, a day after a filing showed Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn.

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Wetherspoon Annual Pre-Tax Profit Falls 28% as Chairman Blames Tax Rises

Wetherspoon's annual profit fell 28% as wage, repair and business rate costs rose, though the pub group says the new financial year has started strongly, with recent like-for-like

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Fair Isaac and TransUnion Shares Slide After Hours on Report of Two-Bureau Mortgage Credit Plan

Fair Isaac shares dropped about 7% after the US close today on a Bloomberg report that mortgage finance regulators plan to cut the credit reports they require from three bureaus t

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MicroStrategy Shares Jump in Thursday Trading

MicroStrategy shares closed higher in today's session, in a move that ranks 34th among the last 126 sessions, with trading lighter than usual.

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BAE Systems Weighs Bid for Robin Radar in Possible $2.3bn Deal, Reuters Reports

BAE Systems is among the potential bidders weighing an offer for Dutch drone detection firm Robin Radar, Reuters reported, in a sale that could value the company at about €2bn.

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US Payrolls Preview: September Jobs Forecast to Cool

The US September jobs report is due tomorrow, Friday, at 13:30 UK time, after August payrolls came in far above the forecast. This preview sets out the forecast and what to check when it lands.

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Nike Stock Falls After Hours as It Guides to a Revenue Decline

Nike's first-quarter earnings per share of $0.48 compared with a consensus of $0.44, but sales missed, and it guided to a high-single-digit revenue fall in fiscal 2027. The shares

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Q4 London Shares to Watch: Greggs, Coca-Cola HBC and Victrex

Greggs, Coca-Cola HBC and Victrex all drew fresh broker notes this week, and all three trade below the latest targets, with each stock also down in today's session.

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Rolls-Royce Licenses Local mtu Engine Production in Saudi Arabia

Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division has signed a licence with Saudi Arabia's MAKEEN to build mtu marine engines locally, the first licence of its kind for high-speed engines in t

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Wells Fargo Upgrades BP to Overweight and Swaps Exxon Out on Debt Reduction

Wells Fargo analyst Sam Margolin has upgraded BP to Overweight and lifted the price target to $57, while cutting Exxon Mobil, arguing BP now offers better value and faster debt re

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Accenture Shares Jump 18% as Earnings Beat Eases AI Fears

Accenture's shares surged on Thursday after fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings beat forecasts and its outlook eased fears that artificial intelligence will erode demand for consulting.

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Games Workshop Shares Fall 5.8% in Morning Trade Today

Games Workshop shares were down 5.8% at 16,940p by 8.30am in London today, having traded between 16,870p and 17,870p so far, a move that ranks third among daily moves in the past

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Inchcape Buys Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover Businesses in Peru and Costa Rica

Inchcape has agreed to buy Volvo businesses in Peru and Costa Rica and a Jaguar Land Rover business in Peru, which together generated about £48.7m of revenue in 2025. No price was

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