LSE Market News

The share price of FTSE 100 packaging giant Bunzl (LSE:BNZL) rose 41.00 pence to 1,056 by 14:17 today on news of a package of three new acquisitions. The Bunzl share price had a very good 2012, opening at 883.00 and closing the year at 1,009.00 whilst posting a 5-year high of 1,167.00 on 08 August.  […]

BBC reported today that Royal Bank of Scotland plc (LSE:RBS) (NYSE:RBS) is now in the final stage of negotiations as to how much fine it will pay over its alleged participation in the London Inter-Bank Offer Rates or LIBOR, which may also claim one executive’s seat at the bank. According to Robert Peston, BBC’s Business […]

Camera store chain Jessops is appointing an administrator as it is effectively bust. What caused this privately owned firm to go under and who is next? As it happens I bought a camera from Jessops just before Christmas and as I did so I wondered why on earth this store existed in the first place. […]

Clearly I do not get every share tip correct. I apologise when I am wrong and am attacked for being smug when I am right. C’est la vie. Over 12 years at t1ps my average gain per tip over 241 share tips was 42.7% but folks always remember the losers. Again c’est la vie. So […]

Not to labour the point but the new ADVFN serivice OneFreesharetip.com has now published free share tips for five working days. And on every single day the shares have gone up by anywhere between 4% and 10% after the tip. It is no wonder that thousands of investors have already signed up for this service […]

Shares of FTSE 250 constituent Centamin plc (LSE:CEY) climbed up earlier today after the Egypt-focused gold producer said it beat target production output for 2012, whilst also partly shedding light into alleged suspension of gold exports on hold at the ports of the Islamic state circulating around last week. In a statement, Centamin disclosed it […]

Shares in AIM listed oil producer Nostra Terra Oil & Gas (LSE:NTOG) were 0.525p. And then it happened. They closed at 0.575p. What happened you ask? They were tipped on www.Onefreesharetip.com – thousands of switched on investors who want to get one free share tip a day got an email from this new ADVFN service […]

All it took was a a few simple words from Verizon (NYSE:VZ) CEO Lowell McAdam in an interview yesterday in Las Vegas prior to this week’s massive Consumer Electronics Show.  He simply indicated, regarding a buyout of Vodafone’s shares, that a deal is feasible.  The knee-jerk response of speculative investors was as predictable as the […]

All hope was lost today for those who thought they will be able to make really good money with the sale of African Barrick Gold plc (LSE:ABG) – well, at least for those who bought the shares after Tanzania’s largest gold producer announced talks for a potential offer to sell the company off five months […]

Mining firm Anglo American names replacement for former chief executive Cynthia Carroll. The multinational mining giant and the world’s largest supplier of platinum Anglo American has named Mark Cutifani as their new Chief Executive. Once a trainee-miner Mr Cutifani, 54, resigned from his position as chief executive of the South African firm AngloGold to take […]