UK shares open; eyes on FTSE 250 deals as London market trades
FTSE 250 edged up Thursday, with Rotork plc making up more than all of that move. Rotork soared 66.85% after ABB Ltd offered a £4.14 billion cash deal. FTSE 100 slipped 0.34%.
Rotork (LON:ROR) steady at 488p; ABB (SWX:ABBN) offer spread turns into timing play
London's cash market was not open on Saturday. Shares of Rotork finished Friday at 488p, rising 0.4% compared with the previous Friday.
Rotork (LON:ROR) maths put ABB (SWX:ABBN) on spot for £45 million-£82 million profit
ABB has set a stiff bar with its £4.1 billion bid for Rotork. Based on ABB’s “mid-teens” earnings multiple—interpreted as 14 to 16 times—Rotork will have to boost annual EBITDA by about £45 million to £82 million from the 2025 starting point to hit those targets. ABB hasn’t broken down how much it’s counting on from cost cuts, sales or other sources.
Swiss Stock Market Today, November 27, 2025: SMI Drifts Sideways Near Seven-Month High as Sika, ABB and Crypto ETP Grab Focus
The Swiss stock market spent Thursday in consolidation mode, with the Swiss Market Index hovering just below recent highs in a quiet session thinned by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. The benchmark traded around 12,800 points, edging about 0.1% lower after six consecutive gains, while traders digested Sika’s new efficiency programme, fresh ABB buyback data and the listing of a new crypto ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange. Investing.com+2cash.ch+2
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The Swiss stock market opened the new week on a cautiously positive note on Monday, 24 November 2025, with the Swiss Market Index grinding higher as global rate‑cut hopes lifted risk appetite, even as fresh legal headlines around UBS and lingering macro worries capped gains.
EU Stock Market Today (18 November 2025): STOXX 600 Tumbles 1.8% as AI Bubble Fears Rattle European Shares
European equity markets slumped on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, in a broad risk-off move that dragged the pan‑European STOXX 600 to its worst daily loss since August and a one‑month low. Concerns over an overheated AI trade, fading hopes of a near‑term U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut, and fresh policy headlines from Brussels combined to knock sentiment across the EU stock market today. The Economic Times+1
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ABB Ltd is a Swiss industrial technology giant focused on electrification, motion, process automation and robotics. It operates globally in 100‑plus countries and traces its heritage to Sweden’s ASEA and Switzerland’s BBC Brown Boveri. ABB produces medium‑ and low‑voltage equipment, motors and drives, automation systems, and industrial robots. The company’s strategic pivot toward high‑growth electrification and automation has been accentuated by its recent divestment of the robotics arm.
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