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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2005
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 5.31 points at 1272.74. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 2.41 points at 2262.59. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 closed higher, with aerospace firm Smiths Group rising on hopes of higher earnings, but miner Anglo American ...

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... The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 7.82 points at 1268.25. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 3.52 points at 2264.47. LONDON - British shares rose, supported by gains in heavyweight oil stocks and in Hilton as investors bet on bid activity in the ...

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... The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 1.06 points at 1260.43. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 4.22 points at 2260.95. LONDON - Top UK shares fell slightly, dragged down by heavily weighted oil stocks such as BP as a profit warning from Finland's Neste ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2005
... fell 0.91 per cent, while the broad S&P 500 declined 0.45 per cent, and the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.73 per cent. LONDON - Britain's top shares closed lower as Kuwait sold BP shares worth about $2 billion, slashing demand for other heavyweight ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2005
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 1.53 points at 1255.84. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 5.55 points at 2246.46. LONDON - British shares finished flat with online gaming firm PartyGaming surging to a three-month high after it said it expected ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2005
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 6.33 points at 1257.37. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 8.75 points at 2252.01. LONDON - UK shares rose within 30 points of the 5,600 mark, boosted by heavyweight mobile phone firm Vodafone, but ended the session ...

Principal flags new chief as West goes East

... experience to this new role," he said. West also oversaw the set up of Principal's operations in the UK. Meanwhile, the group's London-based executive Grant Forster, an Australian, will relocate to Sydney and take over West's role in mid 2006. "Under ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2005
... The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 1.61 points at 1263.70. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 3.12 points at 2260.76. LONDON - Robust banking stocks drove UK stocks higher, led by HBOS after Britain's fourth-biggest bank said full-year earnings would ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2005
... Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 2.99 points at 1262.09. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 15.73 points at 2257.64. LONDON - British shares fell as investors locked in gains in the mining sector and as pay-TV firm BSkyB slipped on concerns a tie-up ...

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... per cent. The weekly declines for the Dow and the S&P 500 put an end to five straight weeks of gains for the two gauges. LONDON - Britain's top shares charged ahead, led by medical devices firm Smith & Nephew as hopes mounted that prices for hip and ...