LSE Market News

The UK’s only serious one day investor conference is now less than three weeks away. Details can be found at www.UKinvestorshow.com but the final touches are now being put in place for what seems set to be an explosive day. If you have registered for a ticket it will by now have landed with you. A bit […]

Shares in AIM-listed AdEPT Telecom (LSE:ADT), a leading independent provider of voice and data telecommunications services in the UK were recommended at 54p on my Nifty Fifty website before Christmas becoming the first constituent of what we term the penny share ( sub £20 million market cap) portfolio. Following news earlier this week on the […]

The UK’s Financial Services Authority has fined insurer Prudential  £30 million for breaching FSA Principles and UKLA Listing Principles. Relating to Prudential’s failure to inform the FSA at the appropriate time that it was seeking to acquire AIA, the Asian subsidiary of AIG, in early 2010 the FSA also has also censured Tidjane Thiam, Prudential’s […]

No big high street name seems to have gone bust for a couple of weeks but the quarterly rent cheques are due soon so we should have a few more casualties shortly. But is retail 100% dead? No. It is just changing. The team at onefreesharetip.com has prepared a special report on retail stocks to […]

Some folks think that I am the lackey of bear raider Evil Knievil, writing to order to suit his needs. Au contraire. He does not work for me and vice versa and given how insufferable the old boy can be when he gets it right, I – like many – take a perverse pleasure when […]

On 12 June 2012 ADVFN reported that Thalassa share price had jumped 61% to 47.50 following its announcement of a joint venture with P-Cable to market Thalassa’s patented high-resolution, sub-oceanic, seismic data acquisition technology and the commencement of a contract with State Sevmorgeo Company in Russia.  Executive Chairman Duncan Soukup was looking forward to increased […]

I sense that shareholders in AIM listed management lifestyle, oops meant to say oilfield services company, Vialogy (LSE:VIY) are not exactly my biggest fans. I warned them to bale at 2.125p in the autumn on the basis that the company was ramping its shares with spurious announcements ahead of a rescue fund raise. I warned […]

I am not sure that anyone can call the share price of Bulletin Board Darling Xcite Energy (LSE:XEL) correctly. As such I make no comment on today’s results other than to republish a note from top broker Fox Davies and it is I who underline two phrases which grabs my eye. Clearly high risk/high reward. […]

Zoltav Resources (LSE:ZOL) the AIM listed shell last week announced a Reverse takeover in a deal to buy some Russian oil assets. The shares were suspended at 4.6p but the deal is being done at 3.5p and so here is how the maths of the shareholder structure stacks up after the deal: 1. Vendors of […]

Amidst a new financial crisis threatening the stability of the Eurozone, central banks trying to keep their currencies in check to boost their local economies, and governments tightening their grips to protect the integrity of the financial markets, one financial instrument in circulation around the world is on the rise and poised to become the […]