LSE Market News

Laura Ashley Holdings (LSE:ALY) reported a 14.9% increase in pre-tax profits for the first half ending 26 July. That is news that is fit to print, even if the print is floral. Laura Ashley shares increase by as much as 11% in early trading and are still up nearly 7.0% at 3:00 pm. The company, […]

The shaking of BP’s share price (LSE:BP.) was almost seismic as it fell from 486.15 at 3:13 pm to 461.83 just nine minutes later, before closing at 455.00, a decline of 5.94% on the day. You could almost tell how long it took to read the 153-page judgment handed down by U.S. District Court Judge […]

“Results Underpin Value of Mpokoto Gold Project” Armadale, the AIM quoted investment company focused on natural resource projects in Africa, has announce a series of positive assay results from the recently completed 2,307m drilling campaign at its Mpokoto Gold Project in the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The drilling program was designed […]

Operations Update and Share Option Conversion DekelOil Public Limited, the West African focused palm oil producer, has provided an update on operations at its 51% owned vertically integrated palm oil project in Ayanouan, Côte d’Ivoire, which includes a recently commissioned 60t/hr Crude Palm Oil extraction mill, one of West Africa’s largest. · During the low […]

Plans to expand in Scandinavia Air BP today announced its agreement to purchase the aviation fuel business, Statoil Fuel & Retail Aviation AS (SFR Aviation), from Canadian company Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. The deal will add around 73 new airports in the Nordic countries and Northern Europe to Air BP’s 600-strong global fuels network. The deal, […]

Acquisition of Additional Work Shop and Office Facility Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has doubled the size of its operational headquarters in Dyce, Aberdeen through the purchase of a c.36,000 sq.ft. work shop and […]

Also announce well updates Magnolia Petroleum Plc, the AIM quoted US onshore focused oil and gas exploration and production company, is has announced that it has received a US$1,002,000 payment for consulting services provided to an international company acquiring an oil and gas project in Oklahoma. In addition, the Company has been notified by the […]

London’s own leader in the sharing economy, JUST EAT (LSE:JE.), was given initial coverage today by U.S. broker, Jefferies. Jefferies rated JUST EAT as a “buy.” That ignited a sharp increase in the JUST EAT share price, currently up more than 10% to 298.20. JUST EAT is the world’s largest online marketplace for restaurant delivery […]

ARIANA secures 100% surface rights for Arzu South Ariana Resources plc, the Anglo-Turkish gold exploration and development company focused on Turkey, has released update from its Kiziltepe Gold-Silver Mine following the Company’s recent approval of US$33 million of funding with a Turkish investment bank. Kiziltepe is the initial mine targeted at the Red Rabbit Gold […]

Preliminary Results of the Wressle-1 Well, onshore UK Europa Oil & Gas plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas exploration and development company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, has announced preliminary results of the Wressle-1 conventional exploration well (`Wressle well’) in Lincolnshire which was drilled to a total depth of […]