Big Yellow
March 2012
July 2011
May 2010
- Market Forces blogFTSE shakes off Dow's decline to close virtually unchanged
Gains by a handful of heavyweight companies - including Standard Chartered, Vodafone and GlaxoSmithKline- helped outweigh continuing pessimism over Europe's debt crisis to leave the UK market virtually unchanged by the close of trading
- Market Forces blogTraders hear talk of Carphone and Big Yellow placings
Fresh from the successful Shaftesbury placing, JP Morgan Cazenove now seems to be seeking buyers for shares in both Carphone Warehouse and storage group Big Yellow
- Market Forces blogVedanta and Cairn climb after Indian election result
Vedanta Resources and Cairn Energy are in demand after the weekend victory in the Indian election of the business-friendly National Congress party
December 2008
- Market Forces blogFinancial stocks slide as FTSE ends over 100 down
HBOS led a major sell-off of financial stocks today after revealing an increase in bad debts on mortgages and unsecured lending.
On the day when HBOS shareholders voted to be taken over by Lloyds TSB, the company's shares plunged.
The rest of the UK's banks saw their shares fall too, while sentiment across the market suffered from the US's failure to rescue its stricken US car industry.
The FTSE 100 ended 108.34 points lower at 4280.34, with nine of the top ten fallers from the financial sector.
HBOS recorded the largest percentage decline in the blue-chip index, with shares down 23% or 20.1p to close at 67.5p
January 2007
Big Yellow seeking low-tax trust status
Big Yellow Group yesterday joined the procession of property companies seeking to convert to low-tax real estate investment trusts but the announcement failed to cheer investors more concerned about the storage firm's cautious outlook and fall in occupancy rates.