Vodafone chair buys 823,500 sharesZotefoams director buys £21,000 sharesTatton CEO sells £1.1 million sharesJean-Francois van Boxmeer, chair of telecoms giant Vodafone (VOD) has bought 823,500 shares at 69p for a total value of £568,215 on 28 March.This move comes after Vodafone CFO Luka Mucic also bought a substantial number of shares in the telecoms giant.Mucic snapped up 2,460,000 shares...

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Leading the list of insider sellers in the run-up to Christmas was Tatton Asset Management (TAM) chief executive Paul Hogarth, who offloaded 1.18 million shares at an average price of 590p to scoop almost £7 million in proceeds on 22 December.The sale followed the disposal of just under 300,000 shares at 525p back in September which raised £1.54 million.It has been a productive year for...

Paul Hogarth, the CEO of Tatton Asset Management (TAM:AIM), the on-platform discretionary fund management (DFM) and IFA support services business, has sold 1,183,000 ordinary shares at a price of £5.90 per share to meet institutional buying demand in the market.The transaction took place on 22 December and equates to a value of £6.97 million.Following the above transaction Paul retains a...

London's FTSE 100 finished Tuesday's session down 2% at 6,859.87 as stronger sterling and resurgent concerns about the course of the global Covid-19 pandemic weighed on investor sentiment, while tobacco stocks remained weak amid reports of US regulatory pressure. On Wall Street the S&P 500 was down 0.9% at 4,128.07 by 4.30pm UK time.TOBACCO STOCKS TUMBLEShares in British American Tobacco...

UK stocks continued to slide on Tuesday following some mixed company updates and modest profit-taking after the big gains of last week, with weakness also reflecting the pound's continued rise on UK recovery hopes and share price declines for London's two tobacco firms.By midday, the FTSE 100 was down 1.1% at 6,923.5 points while the FTSE 250 was off 0.7% at 22,339.TOBACCO STOCKS TUMBLEShares...

The FTSE 100 dipped back below 7,000 in early trading on Tuesday following some mixed company updates and modest profit taking after the big gains of last week.The UK's benchmark index fell 0.2% to 6,986.18, taking its cue from Wall Street where stocks also fell overnight, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropping 1% and even the Dow Jones falling 0.3% as banks, energy firms and consumer-facing...

Paddy Power Betfair-owner Flutter Entertainment (FLTR) reported full year profits at the top end of guidance up 20% as revenues grew 27% to £5.26 billion.Having initially opened higher the shares dropped 2.2% to £14.06 as investors digested tough comparatives for the current year following a strong 2020.Flutter faces 'numerous headwinds this year', said Greg Johnson at Shore Capital,...

Shares in telecoms group TalkTalk (TALK) have jumped almost 17% to 97.1p following news of a 97p per share takeover approach from existing shareholder and specialist asset manager Toscafund.The shares trading almost dead on the mooted bid level suggests the market doesn't expect interest from elsewhere.TalkTalk has received a preliminary and non-binding proposal from Toscafund Asset Management...

The FTSE 100 index jumped 2.3% higher on Tuesday to 6,208 points after the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to expand its purchase of corporate bonds to contain the damage from the COVID-19 pandemic eased liquidity concerns and boosted hopes of a global economic recovery.Meanwhile the Trump administration was said to be preparing a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal to help the economy and boost...

London's FTSE 100 weakens a further 73 points to 7,089 on Monday as the exchange of trade threats between Washington and Beijing stirs fears of a recession and German chipmaker Infineon's deal to buy US peer Cypress Semiconductors weighs on the technology sector.Construction and infrastructure firm Kier (KIE) crumbles 29.4% to 196.4p on a warning full year 2019 underlying operating profit will...

Fresh from joining the stock market in April 2018, shares in SimplyBiz (SBIZ:AIM) are starting to gain traction as more people become aware of its story.The £137m business provides compliance and business support services to over 3,400 UK directly authorised independent financial advisers (IFAs). It is a beneficiary of changing regulation and has a high quality earnings stream with 92%...

The short answer to the headline is Chromalox, a US provider of electrical products, systems and solutions for industrial process heating and temperature management. It is paying $415m, or £319m.Digging a little deeper into the detail reveals a whole lot more.Spirax-Sarco (SPX) is a FTSE 250 engineering group. It supplies valves, pumps and control systems for industrial steam heating systems,...