Citywire Top Stocks Daily News Digest

All the news from across the web about the companies featured in Citywire's Top Stocks

Barclays PLC

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• Financial Times: Barclays registered almost 123,000 insurance and protection complaints in the second half, more than double the same period in 2010
• Bloomberg: Barclays is adding £700 million to its covered bonds due in January 2015; the new securities will be priced to yield 135 basis points more than Libor

BG Group PLC

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• Fox Business: BG Group plans to invest up to $20 billion to extract gas in Tanzania
• The Independent: British Gas boss Phil Bentley is in line to get a bonus of around £700,000

BP PLC

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• BP PLC: BP and Anadarko Petroleum are liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a US judge ruled
• Bloomberg: BP and its partners in a Caspian Sea gas field plan to make a final decision on an export route to Europe by the middle of 2013
• Bloomberg: BP and its partners in a Caspian Sea gas field plan to make a final decision on an export route to Europe by the middle of 2013

Centrica PLC

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• The Independent: Centrica chairman Sam Laidlaw is in line for a seven-figure bonus – he gained £900,000 last year on top of his £941,000 salary
• The Daily Telegraph: Centrica has bought £246 million of UK North Sea oil and gas assets from France's Total

DS Smith PLC

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• The Independent: DS Smith, the cardboard-packaging company, has secured 98.6% backing for its £466 million rights issue

Galliford Try PLC

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• Financial Times: Galliford Try, the housebuilding and construction company, has doubled its dividend to 9 pence a share

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

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• Financial Times: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria is targeting a 25% rise in revenue this year to $152 million
• Fox Business: GlaxoSmithKline has purchased 565,000 of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each, which the company intends to hold in treasury

HSBC Holdings PLC

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• Bloomberg: HSBC will withdraw from consumer banking in Japan, closing down six branches four years after starting the business
• MarketWatch: AXA SA may be about to take over part of HSBC's property and casualty insurance business in Asia

Kenmare Resources PLC

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• Daily Mail: Kenmare Resources slipped 3.35 pence to 58.15 pence in London on Wednesday after Canaccord Genuity downgraded to hold from buy

Lloyds Banking Group PLC

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• The Daily Telegraph: St James’s Palace, which is 60% owned by Lloyds, posted net inflows of business of £3.3 billion

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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