Posts tagged: Direct Line
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 12:25 pm
Arch rivals at Bloomberg have pulled their socks up a bit and are digging out a few decent scoops again.
According to Bloomie hacks Jan-Henrick Foerster and Pamela Barbaglia, ailing FTSE 250-listed insurer Direct Line received a takeover approach from Belgian insurer Ageas.
However, the approach was rejected, according to Bloomie. Below is a link to the Bloomberg scoop:..
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Thursday, 28 October 2021, 2:29 pm
Direct Line's shares are up 10pc at pixel time.
To be clear I have no idea why and this website has NOT published an intelligence alert on the company today.
However, one assumes if there is anything going on from an M&A perspective then some sort of announcement is imminent.
One to keep an eye on.....
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Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 6:14 pm
There seems to be an awful lot of excitement in the mainstream business press about which companies are going to be promoted to, and demoted from, the FTSE 100 index.
I suppose there are a dearth of corporate stories around given it's the back end of a summer that has also had to contend with a pandemic. So, the latest quarterly reshuffle will help fill some space (and pixels)...
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