(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-caps on Wednesday.

The firm reduced its interim dividend per share by 16% to 148.0 US cents, down from 177.0 cents. This was in line with a 16% on-year drop in underlying earnings per share to 296.0 cents from 356.0 ...

The FTSE 100 index closed up just 0.62 of a point at 9,136.94. The FTSE 250 closed 16.49 points lower, 0.1%, at 21,776.58, and the AIM All-Share closed down 3.03 points, 0.4%, at 762.72.

Of this, sales of Sage Business Cloud grew 13% to GBP1.54 billion from GBP1.36 billion a year ago, or by 12% on an organic basis. Here, sales were driven by balanced growth from both new and existing ...

(Alliance News) - Taylor Wimpey said it completed more house completions in the first half of 2025, but it cut its interim dividend and lowered operating profit guidance for the full year amid softer ...

Revenue in the second quarter of 2025 rose 1.3% to GBP7.99 billion from GBP7.88 billion, helping to push pretax profit up 26% to GBP1.89 billion from GBP1.50 billion. Core operating profit rose 12% at ...

(Alliance News) - International Personal Finance PLC on Tuesday said it would be minded to accept a takeover bid from a suitor of around GBP500 million, should an offer come. The provider of credit ...

The London-based owner of Guinness, Baileys and Johnnie Walker whisky said Mahlan will serve as interim CFO from August 18. She was Diageo CFO from 2010 to 2015 and most recently served as interim ...

(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Wednesday.

HSBC maintained its interim dividend at USD0.10 per share, but announced plans to initiate and complete a USD3 billion share buyback before its third quarter results are released. The bank's common ...

Smurfit WestRock nowadays represents the merger of Dublin-based Smurfit Kappa Group and Atlanta-based WestRock Co. The deal was completed in June of last year. The firm announced a second quarterly ...

The bank said pretax profit fell 27% to USD15.81 billion in the six months ended June 30 from USD21.56 billion a year earlier. Revenue declined 8.5% to USD34.12 billion in the first half from USD37.29 ...