London afternoon: Footsie climbs higher
The news sent the crude oil price to an intra-day high of $94.72 in New York before easing to close at $93.59.
Lonmin is being helped by platinum rising for the fifth day in a row due to demand from carmakers combined with supply concerns in South Africa.
Xstrata is lower on a report in the FT that it has rejected an informal cash and share takeover approach from Brazilian mining group Vale pitched at just under
Although the current conditions are not ideal, this is an opportunity for us to improve our market share and build for the future," it added.
Online gamer 888 Holdings has seen fourth quarter net gaming revenue from its casino business rise by 60% to $35m and its poker arm by 17% to $21m. For the full year 2007 net gaming revenue rose by 36% to $213m with casino up 33% and poker up 18%. " Trading in Q1 2008 has started strongly," it added.
Contractor Balfour Beatty has agreed to buy the military PPP accommodation business of US real-estate trust GMH Communities Trust for $350m. GMH is a leader in the military accommodation PPP concession market, having secured 15 concessions at 42 bases. The deal would be earnings enhancing immediately, Balfour said.
Software solutions provider Alphameric has had its contract to provide enterprise resource planning solutions to Costa Coffee extended by two years.
Residential property owner Grainger's margins have held up in the four months to end January, despite sales volumes being lower because of a reduced number of vacancies and a slowing of the sales process.
Dana Petroleum said its Norway unit has been awarded three new exploration licences on the Norwegian continental shelf by the country
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Credit Suisse has raised its price target on the group to 1,760p from 1,570p.
Software company Micro Focus expects second half revenues to come in slightly better than forecast thanks to a strong third quarter.
Household good supplier Norcros has cautioned consumer uncertainty in the UK and power problems in South Africa will mean it just missing trading profit forecasts this year.
Papua New Guinea focussed oil and gas explorer, Rift Oil, said test drilling at Puk Puk in its Douglas gas discovery area in PPL 235 is on course to start in April.
Customer monitoring software firm GB Group said it went into profit for the quarter to December 2007 and said it has continued to trade profitability in the final quarter.
Miner Goldplat surged ahead after it saw profits surge 128% for the first half and said it was looking at this level of profitability as a platform for further growth.
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