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I ask for your help. I am endeavouring to work up a directory of independent share bloggers. Not the big share blog websites like ADVFN or iii – not websites with stacks of staff and vast amounts of money behind them. But the small one or two person operations. Those are the blogs that provide […]

Shares in fully listed mining group Anglesey (LSE:AYM) have bounced sharply to 9.375p, valuing it at £15 million, on the back of news that TSX listed Labrador Iron Mines in which it holds a 15% stake has signed a link up with Indian giant Tata. LIM’s shares have bounced on the move to 75 cents […]

It is now ready and will be published tomorrow at noon. Former fund manager, stockbroker and share commentator Robert Sutherland Smith began his City career in 1967 and has assembled a special report where the wittiest swimmer from Hampstead Heath ponds has tried to become boring Bob as he assembles a portfolio of six very […]

The Fairpoint Group impressed investors today with year end results that included a whopping 87% increase in pre-tax profit.  I was going to say that the group, which was founded in 1997, floated on the AIM market in 2002, and renamed as Fairpoint in 2008, has found it’s niche.  But I think it may be […]

As you may remember Sefton Resources (LSE:SER) is suing myself and Brokerman Daniel for libel. I have already responded to its writ and lodged my papers in the High Court last week. Dan tells me that he will be lodging within 24 hours. Both of us await this matter with mounting excitement as the more […]

I first tipped this stock on my premium Nifty Fifty website at an 11.5p offer price on 28th October last year advising my readers to sell half their holding at 24.75p (bid price) the following month. I subsequently suggested reinvesting that cash at 13.5p (offer price). Things are now getting exciting for this company. Leyshon […]

Thomas Cook (LSE:TCG) CEO Harriet Green “gets it” and shareholders who read this morning’s strategy update understand that she does.  TCG share price improved by 15.8% by the noon hour, up 13.75 pence to 100.75. Far too often, in my experience, once turnaround artists achieve their goals, they pat themselves on the back and either […]

Despite an uncertain global economic environment, international financial services group, Prudential plc (LSE:PRU), managed make a profit for the fourth consecutive year since its loss in 2008, the UK-incorporated firm said Wednesday. In its full year results released earlier today, the insurance and asset management group reported statutory pre-tax profit of £3.188 billion in 2012, […]

Gold and copper producer Antofagasta plc (LSE:ANTO) saw its shares rose on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday after the company announced it will be paying out dividend for 2012 in the amount more than twice it gave the year before, following record production and revenue. In the company’s preliminary results released earlier today, the […]

It was less than a year ago, 8 June 2012 to be exact, that Diageo (LSE:DGE) announced that would invest £1 billion to expand its production by as much as 40%.  The share price of the world’s largest distiller at that time was 1,581.0  Today the Diageo share price is 2003.5, up 26.7% from the 8th […]