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The below stocks have been identified as having potential to register bigger than normal share price moves (up or down) today based on the news cited
Anglo American (AAL.L) – H1 underlying profit fell 10% to $2.9bn, EPS rising 2% to $1 ($0.93 expected) ROCE down to 10% CEO aiming to boost this to 15% by 2016. Enters into binding agreement for sale of its 50% interest in Lafarge tarmac to Lafarge. Closing Price 1585.00p (Reuters)
BskyB (BSY.L) – Has agreed to pay around £4.9b to buy Rupert Murdoch’s pay – tv assets in Germany and Italy, responding to the slowing growth at home. Closing Price 925.00p (Reuters)
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC.L) – Group organic Q1 revenue flat at constant currency, reversing historical declines. Mobile subscribers up 20% on LFL basis. Cost reduction programme on track to deliver $100m run-rate savings by end of year. Overall group trading performance is in line with outlook indicated at 2013/14. Closing Price 47.84p (Reuters)
Lonmin (LMI.L) – Q3 production severely impacted by unprecedented five month strike. Expect to be achieving 80.0% of normal monthly production by end of FY 2014. Closing Price 229.70p (Reuters)
Lloyds (LLOY.L) – Confirmed on Friday that it was close to agreeing a settlement over allegations of manipulating benchmark interest rates. Closing Price 73.95p (Reuters)
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) – Pretax profit for H1 £2,652m beating expectation’s, operating profit £1,318m, litigation issues may hit profits going forward, sees about £1.5bn restricting charge in 2014, FY credit impairment charge of around £1bn. Closing Price 328.80p (Bloomberg)
Vodafone (VOD.L) – Received no relief from tough market conditions in Q1, with a slowdown in Spain and South Africa resulting in another heavy drop in its key revenue measure. Handset sales and currency movements, accelerated to 4.2% in the three months to June 30. That compared with a rate of 4.0%, including a full contribution from Italy, in the last quarter of its past financial year. Closing Price 197.85p (Reuters)
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| Stock | Code | Close | High | Low |
| Britvic | BVIC.L | -1.63% | 0.82% | -2.17% |
| Easyjet | EZJ.L | -4.99% | -2.00% | -8.41% |
| Rio Tinto | RIO.L | 1.49% | 1.64% | -0.59% |
| Anglo American | AAL.L | -0.75% | 0.25% | -1.72% |
| BHP Billiton | BLT.L | 0.80% | 0.82% | -0.82% |
| SABMiller | SAB.L | -0.76% | 1.62% | -1.53% |
| Tate & Lyle | TATE.L | -0.91% | 0.68% | -3.17% |
| Unilever | ULVR.L | -0.75% | 0.63% | -2.37% |
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