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Heating, cooling and transportation technology company Sabien has incorporated a wholly-owned United States subsidiary Sabien, Inc in the state of Delaware, it announced on Wednesday. The AIM-traded firm said US investor and technology company operator Danny Mills was appointed as president and Richard Parris as chairman and company secretary of …

Analysts at Canaccord Genuity raised their target price on software firm Cerillion from 350.0p to 465.0p on Tuesday, stating that demand was “good” but also noting that execution was “key”. Canaccord said Cerillion’s order book at the end of September 2020 provided it with visibility for over 90% of 2021 …

Jefferies upgraded its stance on shares of Royal Mail on Tuesday to ‘hold’ from ‘underperform’ and hiked the price target to 450p from 300p. The bank said a better-than-expected peak season and ongoing Covid-19 restrictions lead to a 60% increase in its FY20/21E operating profit forecast to £580m. “We estimate …

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi today said AstraZeneca is ‘confident’ its jab prevents serious illness caused by the South African coronavirus variant after early data from a small study suggested the vaccine was less effective against the strain. Mr Zahawi said he had spoken to England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan …

London’s FTSE 250 was down 0.8% at 20,288.50 in afternoon trade on Wednesday. Online electricals retailer AO World was the biggest loser, closely followed by Ferrexpo. On the upside, convenience food maker Greencore was the standout performer as Jefferies lifted its stance on the shares to ‘buy’ from hold’ and …

Deutsche Bank upgraded Royal Mail to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ on Wednesday, highlighting a “complete change of outlook”, as it hiked the price target to 550.0p from 320.0p. The bank noted that its ‘sell’ case on the stock between 1 December 2017 and 5 May 2020 was based on the fact …

Cyclicals were in favour at the start of the week as positive Chinese gross domestic product data helped to offset worries about the new Covid-19 strains. Nonetheless, there appeared to be confidence among analysts and strategists that vaccination rollout programmes now underway would help to bring the pandemic to heel …

Wall Street stocks closed higher on Tuesday following a sharp sell-off in the previous session, driven by some stronger than expected manufacturing data. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.55% at 30,391.60, while the S&P 500 was 0.71% firmer at 3,726.86 and the Nasdaq Composite saw …

Bonhill Group updated the market on its US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan on Tuesday, having received the $1.1m loan on 29 May. The AIM-traded business information, events and data company said the loan was made to protect US jobs and, provided it used it for employee retention, payroll and …

Berenberg upped its rating on Royal Mail on Tuesday to ‘hold’ from ‘sell’ and hiked the price target to 280p from 137p as it said risks remain but are now balanced. The bank noted that despite a severe hit to mail volumes, Royal Mail has been relatively successful during the …