Baltimore Relegated From FTSE 250
News Ailing Irish security firm Baltimore was hit by more bad news on Friday as it was forced out of the FTSE 250. Baltimore, previously one of UK's high-flying tech stocks, will instead enter the lowly FTSE small cap index.
[August 24, 2001, 10:22]
FTSE Ousts Freeserve From Top Index
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 12:30]
AppLabs Case Study: Provident Financial
White Papers Provident Financial is a UK FTSE 250 global lending company. Due to its agent workforce and regional branches, Provident Financial's account management systems were heavily reliant on manual processing.
[February 24, 2008, 23:00]
Freeserve Could Get The Boot From FTSE 100
News The downturn in dot-com shares will take another toll next week, when pioneering Internet service provider Freeserve will likely be removed from the FTSE 100 index. If Freeserve is not in the top 100 companies that day it will move into the FTSE 250.
[August 30, 2000, 7:41]
Freeserve Ejected From FTSE 100
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 8:00]
Rate Worries Pound FTSE, Nasdaq, Dow
News The FTSE 100 index had minutes earlier been down around 101 points, extending its sharp drop on Tuesday when it slid 3.8 percent or 264 points -- its biggest daily nominal points decline ever. In the meantime, the UK's FTSE 100 index slipped more...
[January 5, 2000, 9:46]
Virus Damage Costs Increase Fourfold
News The Forum surveyed its members, which include more than half of the FTSE 100 and 250 companies, after the MSBlast worm this August. It costs four times more to clean up after a virus than previously thought, according to a survey of large...
[December 2, 2003, 14:30]
Lara Croft Can't Rescue Eidos
News Shares were sharply lower in morning trading, with Eidos the worst performer in the FTSE 250 as of 11.30am. Shares of Eidos (quote: EID), the UK's biggest gaming software maker, took a tumble in early London trading after the company warned its...
[January 18, 2000, 12:38]
Action 2000 Confident UK Will Survive Bug
News With 32 days to go until the millennium, Action 2000's State of the Nation research shows 99 percent of the FTSE 500 and 93 percent of companies employing 250 or more employees are ready for the date change.
[December 1, 1999, 16:41]
Baltimore Packages Up PKI
News The company was forced to halve its workforce over the past 12 months after being relegated from the FTSE 250 as its share sank from a high of over £13 to 20 pence last year. Troubled security software firm Baltimore is hoping to kick start the...
[October 22, 2002, 15:27]
Freeserve Goes Head To Head With AOL Over Unmetered
News This has been costly for the ISP -- and no doubt added to its sliding share price which cumulated in the company being removed from the FTSE 100 index in October. Freeserve (quote: FRE) is reopening the old rivalry with AOL Friday as it launches a...
[December 1, 2000, 15:06]
