LSE Market News

I have been a market reporter. I know how it works. Someone you know calls you with what seems like a good story. You run it. Your team is on the box that night. You file your article. Good job. But just occasionally you are being played. The question is by whom? And unless someone […]

What a difference 1% makes! News that the world’s eighth largest economy broke out of recession and grew by 1% during the third quarter of 2012 sent waves of reactions across different economic and social standings, giving a mix of positive and negative impressions highlighted by the media today. Whilst British Prime Minister, David Cameron, […]

The world’s largest supplier of platinum said production of the expensive material used in reducing carbon emission for the current year will be lower than previously estimated as work stoppage that hit the group’s mining operations in South Africa took a chunk of its production for the third quarter of the year and in October. […]

(A stealth team of traders is huddled in a dark corner of the London Stock Exchange.) “Men, we’re going to synchronize our watches to 11:59.  On my mark.  3 – 2 – 1 – mark!” KABOOM!!  It was the sound of the RB  ‘stock rocket’ engines igniting as the company released it’s 3rd Quarter results. […]

While a premature release of a financial statement cost one firm billions worth of its market value, one development in an oil and gas company’s interest nearly missed its chance to add value to AIM-listed Solo Oil plc (LSE:SOLO). But our resident analyst at ADVFN has recommended a buy on the stock hours before the […]

Independent oil and gas explorer Sound Oil plc (LSE:SOU) has been measuring up to its name recently (I’m not exactly saying it wasn’t doing that in the past) – being sound with decisions and strategies, whether in disposing assets or securing funding for existing operations. In less than a week, the company has negotiated deals […]

Sefton (LSE:SER) groupies are terribly excited that Mohammed El Fayed has picked up 15 million shares (just over 3%) of their company. Er up to a point. And it makes no difference. The stock is worthless. My target remains 0.1p and it is a stonking short. Here is why. The shares have actually been picked […]

I first recommended shares in AIM listed Staffline Group (LSE:STAF), a provider and manager of industrial workforces which operates from more than 190 locations in the UK, at 77.5p in March 2010. The payment of a 3.1p per share interim dividend on 9th November – as declared in the company’s results for the first half […]

With the negative publicity of the infamous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico now fading into the past, BP (LSE:BP.) has been able to focus on its 2nd worst nightmare, a partnership gone terrible wrong with the Russian oil giant, TNK-BP.  Several months of negotiations have produced an agreement with Rosneft, another […]

I initially recommended shares in Elektron Technology (LSE:EKT), a designer and manufacturer of precision engineered components for connectivity, instrumentation, monitoring and control, in April 2011 at 37.25p as the company looked be recovering well from the impacts of recession and customer de-stocking. The shares initially performed well – hitting a high of 45p in the […]