23 Oct 2012 @ 00:27
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 […]
22 Oct 2012 @ 23:39
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 […]
22 Oct 2012 @ 19:59
I have time and time again asked questions about the utterly misleading statements issued by AIM listed penny share dreadful Sefton Resources (
LSE:SER) about its output in California. It seems that the company just cannot help itself because we now have proof that what it said about September data is misleading. Is it time for another […]
22 Oct 2012 @ 00:06
The economic situation in Spain is deteriorating rapidly and is coming dangerously close to ongoing situations in failing economies such as those of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. And the UK stock markets, like other stock markets the world over, are feeling the pinch. Even mere rumors stipulating that the Spanish government might request for […]
21 Oct 2012 @ 20:05
Seeing as the UK still ranks as the sixth largest national economy in the world, and is home to one of the world’s most renowned stock exchanges, UK stock markets are certainly still viable for international investments. Some of the benefits investors stand to gain from investing in UK-listed financial securities include the following: Ready […]
21 Oct 2012 @ 00:45
London is one of the largest cities in the world; it also boasts of having the highest city Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Europe. All this and more are what help to make the idea of investing in UK stock markets very appealing to investors the world over; hence the high rate of international investments […]
20 Oct 2012 @ 19:07
Instances in which companies are allowed to list their shares on the London Stock Exchange, or any stock exchange for that matter, without being fully vetted pose great risk to prospective and existing investors in the financial securities market. And such instances are often the direct products of reverse takeovers. A reverse takeover generally refers […]
20 Oct 2012 @ 00:34
In the face of such dire economic circumstances plaguing Greece’s economy, and in light of the fact that we live in an increasingly globally connected world where European economies and world economies at large are inextricably linked, one cannot help but wonder how the financial and economic situation in Greece will affect stock trades and […]
19 Oct 2012 @ 23:31
I first recommended shares in Gable Holdings (
LSE:GAH), a European non-life insurance company underwriting a range of specialist commercial sector policies, in July 2006 when the shares traded at 18.5p. This has been something of a slow burner – the shares having commenced 2012 trading at just above 22p. However, they have moved sharply higher […]
19 Oct 2012 @ 20:01
Following months of negotiations, Sylvania Platinum Limited (
LSE:SLP) has agreed to a wage settlement with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which represented the platinum producer’s workers at its Eastern operations in the labour unrest-filled Rustenburg mining district in South Africa, in a bid to pre-empt any potential disruption arising from demands of pay increases. […]