Excerpt from: Individual Equities CFDs and Spread Bets
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| August 27, 2007 | | Spread betting and contracts for differences on individual equities | Spread bets and CFDs on Alstom stock should consider that the company just landed two large contracts. The French stock is helping to lead the CAC 40 Index higher this morning. Bloomberg reports on the success of Alstom on the stock market:
Alstom gained 2.42 euros, or 1.9 percent, to 131.63 euros.
The world's third-biggest maker of power stations won two
contracts valued at a total 1.85 billion euros ($2.53 billion)
to provide gas turbines for power plants in the U.K. and the
United Arab Emirates.
``Alstom is reinforcing its leadership in the turbines
market,'' Laurent Vallee, a fund manager at Richelieu Finance in
Paris, said in an interview. | | |
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