FTSE 100 News

Shares of Royal Dutch Shell (LSE:RDSA) took a shelling today despite a healthy increase in fourth quarter and full year results. Its shares closed at 2,153.5 yesterday, 28 January, but opened today at 2,079.0, down 3.5%. They kept falling in the opening minutes to 2,060.0 up until 8:11 a.m., from whence they struggled to gain […]

The share prices of International Consolidate Airlines Group (LSE:AIG) and Aer Lingus (LSE:AERL) are on the rise for the second consecutive day as investors are more confident that the proposed acquisition of the Irish airline will take place. While there is still more than a little uncertainty, investor hopes were buoyed this afternoon when Aer […]

The share price of Aer Lingus (LSE:AERL) rose sharply this morning following an announcement that the airline is considering a takeover offer from International Consolidated Airlines Group (LSE:AIG). While AIG’s interest in Aer Lingus is not news in the sense that it is new, it is headline-worthy in that both companies issued regulatory statements affirming […]

FTSE 100 stock (FTSE:UKX) is currently an upbeat market and this may be the beginning of a long-term bullish outlook. The last year was characterized by large pullbacks, followed by large upswings. In the chart, 4 EMAs are used and they are EMAs 10, 20, 50 and 200. The color that stands for each EMA […]

The man who would like to think that he is the most influential person in the world gave a speech last night. It seems as though no one from the financial world listened to it, but that’s not really the case. The fact is that the financial world has bigger fish to fry and whole […]

The financial world is in disarray today.  It all started with an unexpected and startling press release by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) that said: “The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is discontinuing the minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro. At the same time, it is lowering the interest rate on sight deposit account balances that exceed […]

Without Smith & Nephew (LSE:SN.), Christmas Eve at the London Exchange would have been ho-hum, but the company turned the half-day session into a ho-ho-ho. It’s always interesting news when a stock increases 7.7% in a single day, but when Smith & Nephew’s share price increased that amount it was more than interesting. It was […]

This past week the FTSE 100 aggregate companies regained £62 billion of the £112 billion in valuation that they lost during the prior week. The index finished the week at 6,545.27, a gain of 3.9% on the week. Oops! Pardon me. That introduction kind of took the polish off the headline, didn’t it? Oh well, I might […]

African Barrick Gold (LSE:ABG) released its unaudited results for the third quarter yesterday. Its share price rose from 195.00 to 200.00 on some impressive results. Typically, we (writers) rush to post the same headlines and stories that everyone else is writing. I have been thinking lately that waiting a day or two offers a slightly […]

Given some of the travails of this past year that GlaxoSmithKline (LSE:GSK) and its share price have suffered (down 13% in 2014), board members have likely been longing to have a day when they could hum along with Curly McLain in the cast of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma” as he sings, “Oh, what a […]