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  • Vodafone rings up wrong numbers  
    23 Jul, 2008 07:13, Press and Journal

    Rattled investors gave Vodafone a stock market hammering yesterday after the mobile phone giant warned the City of revenue at the bottom end of hopes. Its shares fell as much as 16% wiping more than 11billion off the value of the business and dragging the FTSE 100 index into the red virtually single...

    ...chief executive Vittorio Colao next week after five years in charge. Richard Hunter, at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, said: The CEO would...


  • Insurers warned: promote open market or lose out 
    23 Jul, 2008 01:07, Citywire

    The insurance industry must act to improve take-up of the open market option or face losing discretion on the â wake-upâ packs sent to savers approaching retirement, warns Nigel Callaghan of Hargreaves Lansdown .

    ...wake-upâ packs sent to savers approaching retirement, warns Nigel Callaghan of Hargreaves Lansdown . The Association of British Insurers...


  • Sour close for Sarin as Vodafone loses its sheen and shares drop 
    22 Jul, 2008 23:36, The Scotsman

    ARUN Sarin's tenure of mobile phone giant Vodafone has ended on a sour note after the group's share price plunged yesterday as it became the latest victim of the credit...

    ...subscribers had joined, taking the global total to 269 million. Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said...


  • Vodafone and banks drag on FTSE 
    22 Jul, 2008 19:42, Yahoo Finance

    LONDON (Reuters) - The top share index snapped a three-day winning run on Tuesday as banking stocks fell on persistent economic concerns and Vodafone (LSE:...

    ...all of the difficulties in relation to the credit market are behind us," said Keith Bowman, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown (LSE: HL.L - news) .


  • Downturn deals blow to 'safe bet' Vodafone 
    22 Jul, 2008 19:06, Evening Standard

    Shares in Vodafone crashed to a two-year low today, down 19½p or 13% at 129¾p, after the world's largest mobile phone company admitted it is being hit by the economic...

    ...the economic slowdown to date, finally look to have cracked.' Richard Hunter at Hargreaves Lansdown said: 'The stock has showed its defensive...


  • Forward defensive 
    22 Jul, 2008 17:17, Yahoo Finance

    By Richard Hunter , Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers For those interested in such random numbers, the UK market has now officially been in a bear market for a week - although investors will have noticed little change, since the bear market characteristics of pessimism and a lack of...

    ...Forward defensive By Richard Hunter, Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers For those interested in such random numbers, the UK market has now officially...



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