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AA shares starts conditional trading today in London today

AA Group raises £1.4 billion in London IPO

UK motoring firm AA Group said today it had completed an initial public offering (IPO) to raise gross proceeds of £1.4 billion.

Business • 23 Jun 14

Bank of Ireland shares were lower after the sale of Wilbur Ross's stake

Wilbur Ross sells €477m Bank of Ireland stake

The sale by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross of his entire shareholding in Bank of Ireland was priced at 26.5 cent a share.

Business • 10 Jun 14

Wilbur Ross currently holds 5.54% of Bank of Ireland's shares

Wilbur Ross to sell entire BoI shareholding

US investor Wilbur Ross is to sell his entire holding of around 1.8 billion shares in the Bank of Ireland, Deutsche Bank has said.

Business • 10 Jun 14

New Valeant offer for Allergan values it at $49.4 billion

Valeant injects cash into bid for Botox maker

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has raised the cash component of its unsolicited offer for Botox-maker Allergan.

Business • 28 May 14

Unilever's move will boost full-year earnings per share by 2%, according to the group

Unilever moves to simplify group structure

Consumer goods group Unilever said it had paid £715m for the rights left in family trusts by co-founder William Hesketh Lever in a move to simplify the Anglo-Dutch group's share structure.

Business • 19 May 14

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has laid out an ambitious plan for the newly merged group

Shares in Fiat Chrysler fall on quarterly losses

Shares in Italian-American auto giant Fiat Chrysler Automobiles were down more than 8% today after the group announced losses of €319m in the first quarter.

Business • 07 May 14

Google has exited the $1,000 stock club after special dividend

Google issues new class of shares

US technology giant Google exited the rarified club of $1,000 stocks after creating a new class of shares that some say could be used to finance acquisitions.

Business • 03 Apr 14

Plans to pay Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley a shares windfall are scrapped

Sports Direct shares move scrapped

Retailer Sports Direct has scrapped plans to pay founder Mike Ashley a shares windfall after shareholders failed to back the award.

Business • 03 Apr 14

Ryanair's shares rise after upbeat analyst briefing

Ryanair says its forward bookings up 5%

Ryanair shares climbed higher today after its management briefed analysts on progress on its marketing overhaul and financing plans.

Business • 21 Mar 14

Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins to get £3.8m worth of shares

Barclays chiefs handed £32m in shares

Shares worth £32m were handed to some executives of Barclays today in a move adding to the controversy over City of London pay packets.

Business • 18 Mar 14

Sports Direct wants to give its founder Mike Ashley a share bonus worth £65m

Sports Direct proposes £65m share bonus for Ashley

Sports Direct has today outlined plans to hand its founder and deputy chairman Mike Ashley a share bonus worth around £65m.

Business • 11 Mar 14

Wilbur Ross and Fairfax set to sell some of their Bank of Ireland shareholding

BoI shares slide as Ross & Watsa sell some stock

Shares in Bank of Ireland closed more than 9% lower in Dublin after it emerged that Wilbur Ross and Fairfax are selling some of their stake in the bank.

Business • 04 Mar 14

Vodafone details share proceeds from Verizon deal

Vodafone said today that shareholders would receive 0.026 shares in Verizon Communications for each Vodafone share they own.

Business • 19 Feb 14

Share deal will boost French cosmetics group's earnings per share by more than 5%

L'Oreal to buy 8% of its shares from Nestle

L'Oreal will buy 8% of its capital for €6.5 billion from Swiss consumer goods group Nestle.

Business • 11 Feb 14

RBS CEO Ross McEwan said that before the crisis began the bank was the biggest in the world

RBS sets aside another £3 billion for claims

Royal Bank of Scotland has set aside more than £3 billion sterling for litigation and compensation claims in the UK and in the US.

Business • 28 Jan 14

NPRF sells 44 million Bank of Ireland shares

The State has raised €12m following the sale of 44 million Bank of Ireland shares.

Business • 07 Jan 14

RSA has issued three profit warnings in the last few months

RSA shares jump on report of no further writedowns

Shares in RSA rose more than 7% after a newspaper reported it would likely face no further writedowns at its Irish business.

Business • 06 Jan 14

Mark Zuckerberg set to sell over 41 million Facebook shares

Zuckerberg to sell Facebook shares

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion to pay a tax bill.

Business • 19 Dec 13

INM shareholders agree to latest piece of debt reducing plan

INM shareholders approve capital raising move

Shareholders in Independent News and Media today approved the group's move to raise €43m in capital at the company's EGM in Dublin.

Business • 16 Dec 13

General Motors sells its 7% stake in French car maker

Peugeot shares tumble as GM offloads stake

Shares in Peugeot Citroen fell another 11% today after General Motors sold its 7% stake in the struggling French car maker in a private placement to institutional investors.

Business • 13 Dec 13

Bank of Ireland set to raise new equity through a placement rather than a rights issue - sources

Bank of Ireland to raise €500m of equity - source

Bank of Ireland will raise between €500-600m of equity as early as next week, a source familiar with the deal said today.

Business • 26 Nov 13

RSA Irish investigation to go back two years

Britain's largest general insurer Royal and Sun Alliance is probing losses and premiums at its Irish unit stretching back at least two years

Business • 11 Nov 13

Twitter Inc soared as much as 92% on its first day of trading on the NYSE

Twitter stock closes up 73% in New York

Frenzied buying in Twitter shares grabbed Wall Street's attention , as the social media stock surged well above expectations.

Business • 07 Nov 13

Shares in Twitter began changing hands at $45.10

Twitter soars in frenzied NYSE debut

Frenzied buying in Twitter shares grabbed Wall Street's attention , as the social media stock surged well above expectations

News • 07 Nov 13

Sony's profit forecast has been dragged down by the poor performance of its TV division

Sony shares tumble after cut in profit forecast

Sony’s shares tumbled as much as 10% to a five-month low of 1,690 yen (€12.72) after it slashed its full-year profit forecast by 26% as its struggling TV operation fell back into red.

Business • 01 Nov 13