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Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for shale gas can now again be implemented in the United Kingdom as Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has lifted suspension of the said process over a year after the same was believed to be the cause of seismic tremors in the northwest region of England. In a […]

I first tipped Egyptian gold miner Centamin (LSE:CEY) at 8p on t1ps.com. I advised readers to sell at 137p. I called it bloody brilliantly. In the summer at 67p to 75p I repeatedly urged folks to sell warning that the new Islamofascist rulers of Egypt had changed the game. I was greeted with heaps of […]

I recommended shares in this company first back in my days at t1ps.com. Including dividends we more than doubled our cash there. I recommended this stock again as a yield play six weeks ago on my new Nifty Fifty website at an offer price of 839.5p.  Since then the company has duly served up a […]

We still have one big name main stage speaker and one big name trader to reveal but the line up of big names at the UK’s premier investor show, UKInvestor – organised by ADVFN – is now almost complete. The show is on April 13that the Excel centre. At some other events the speakers are […]

I’ve been watching the FTSE 250 index this morning as it has been struggling to reach its all time high of 12,220.  Through the morning it has climbed over 30 points, but the last four or five were the toughest.  Then, during the noon hour, just when it appeared that the 2007 record was about […]

As private investors we have come to loathe private placings. If the shares are 10p before City fund managers are made insiders they are 8p by the time a placing is completed as somehow word seeps out. Odd that. And so the placing is done at a 20% discount to 8p and a stock which […]

Anglo-Australian commodities producer, BHP Billiton plc (LSE:BLT), is letting go of a minority stake in a natural gas project offshore of Australia as the company continues to reshape its portfolio to meet the changing landscape of resource markets. The world’s largest mining group signed a definitive agreement, selling its interests in the Browse Joint Venture […]

Yesterday Tullow (LSE:TLW) announced that it had let its interests in Guyana drop.  The press office at Northern Petroleum (LSE:NOP) has fielded a number of calls about how Northern was going to proceed with its drilling campaign in the area. Is this an indictment of how badly history is taught in schools or how badly […]

Shares in Gable Holdings (LSE:GAH), the AIM-listed non-life insurance company underwriting a range of specialist commercial sector policies across Europe, have continued to make progress since I previously updated on the company towards the end of last month. This follows some positive December news flow, which I review in the following piece. I first recommended […]

Whilst necessity may be the mother of invention, As Seen on Screen (ASOS) has proven that inspiration is the mother of innovation. The share price of ASOS (LSE:ASC) rose 91.00 pence (3.69%) in trading today on the news of an outstanding 1st quarter.  Good financial reports from retailers are hard to come by these days […]