Qatar ups stake in London Stock Exchange
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Qatar has upped its stake in the London Stock Exchange to nearly 24 percent by acquiring an additional three percent of shares, a Qatari newspaper said Sunday.
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Nasdaq and Borse Dubai, aiming to muscle out potential rival bidders, boosted an offer for OMX to $4.9 billion on Wednesday and pushed close to a majority stake in the Nordic exchange group.
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Representatives of the Qatari Investment Authority have indicated a willingness to pay as much as 15 pounds a share for Nasdaq's  31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange  the Sunday Times newspaper said.
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Shares in Debenhams rise more than 7% after a Dubai-based investor ups its stake in the firm.
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London equities moved higher in opening trade on Thursday, helped by buoyant financial stocks and a fresh set of bid talk.
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London equities rose in opening trade on Tuesday, with mining stocks boosted by record prices for gold and platinum.
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The Gulf state of Qatar on Thursday bought a 20-percent share of the London Stock Exchange.
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Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings  has approached Nasdaq  to buy its 30 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange , a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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US investment manager Capital Group Companies Inc has increased its stake in the nation&#39;s largest carrier, Qantas Airways, to 10.
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News of a co-ordinated effort by a wide-ranging consortium of the world's central banks to address the liquidity crisis on credit markets pushed London equities significantly higher on Wednesday.
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London equities made strong gains on Wednesday, with every FTSE 100 stock higher after strong overnight gains on Wall Street following the Federal Reserve&#39;s 50 basis point cut in US interest rates.
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Shares in Royal Dutch/Shell have risen in Amsterdam and London, lifted by speculation that investors will increase their holdings in the stock to reflect its unified structure.
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The London Stock Exchange  forecast a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its full-year dividend at least 50 percent on Tuesday as it reiterated its opposition to a 2.7-billion-pound ($5.3 billion) bid from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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London equities made strong gains in opening trade on Tuesday, lifted by improving sentiment in the banking sector and a strong showing for resource stocks.
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British Airways has sold its A$1.1 billion (431 million pounds) stake in Australia&#39;s Qantas Airways to Australian and international investors, helping push up Qantas shares by over 2 percent.
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London equities were higher on the opening trading day of 2008, as a measure of bid speculation centred on Alliance & Leicester helped provide momentum.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc , the second-largest U.S. equities exchange, said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 12-fold, helped by a gain from the sale of its stake in the London Stock Exchange .