08 Aug 2013 @ 00:15
Look for the next few days, if not weeks or months, to be a bumpy ride for world markets. While Mark Carney’s remarks today (see my ADVFN colleague Tom Frew’s remarks) will have some impact on the London Exchange, the whole world is reacting to signs that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of […]
06 Aug 2013 @ 00:38
Britain’s banks have provided a bevy of news for the first Monday in August. And – surprise!- not all of it is bad. Not that long ago, any story about UK banks could have been written in one word: “Disaster.” Actually, it’s been so bad for so long that “bank” and “disaster” in the same […]
02 Aug 2013 @ 22:53
International Consolidated Airlines Group (
LSE:IAG) share price has been escalating throughout the day and is currently up 16.80 pence to 313.90. That’s a 5.7% increase on the day, an 18.7% increase on the month, a 49.4% increase since the beginning of 2013, and a 99% increase over the last 12 months. Today’s change in share price […]
02 Aug 2013 @ 19:16
Pound Sterling – At the start of the week the Pound saw little movement against its most traded peers, but did make gains against the US Dollar. The rise came after the Bank of England released data showing that lending to small UK firms hit a record high in June. To ask a currency expert a […]
01 Aug 2013 @ 14:44
The EURUSD continues forming bullish patterns and for now, this pair is very strong in the current bullish trend. The ERUSUD is forming a lower high pattern below the resistance level 1.3299. If the pair manages to break that level, it is expected to climb to the 1.3400 psychological level. We should note that the […]
30 Jul 2013 @ 23:04
International Personal Finance plc (
LSE:IPF), may not make a lot of headlines, so that may “leed” some snootier investors to ignore the company based in Leeds. Interestingly enough, IPF is one of the “leeders” on the London Stock Exchange today. Its share price is the ninth “leeding” gainer by percentage and the seventh “leeding” by […]
28 Jul 2013 @ 08:36
The views of Postman Poirot is unkown. NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has introduced equity options on the shares of bpost, Belgium’s largest provider of postal services. The options will be available on the Brussels derivatives market of NYSE Liffe. bpost is the leading postal operator in Belgium. The […]
26 Jul 2013 @ 19:42
Pound Sterling – At the start of the week the Pound was trading above a two-week high against the US Dollar as the UK awaited the birth of its future King. The currency found support by comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron that taxes could be cut in the near future as the UK economy […]
25 Jul 2013 @ 00:53
ARM Holdings (
LSE:ARM) reported a 30% increase in pre-tax profit for their fiscal second quarter this morning. ARM share price opened at 927.00, rose to 950.00 just after 11:00 am and held ground above the 940.00 mark just prior to the penning of this story. Its double-digit growth was quite a contrast to some competitor […]
24 Jul 2013 @ 00:30
Imagine that you are a senior pharmaceutical executive. The first thing you want to do is make certain, when you wake up in the morning, that you do not work for GlaxoSmithKline (
LSE:GSK). The second thing you want to do is look out the window and make sure that you are not in China, or […]