The UK Economy

NYSE Euronext (NYX) has announced the restructured leadership team for its regulated exchange business NYSE Liffe. Finbarr Hutcheson, Co-Chief Executive of NYSE Liffe with responsibility for commercial and business development, becomes sole CEO whilst Andrew Dodsworth, Executive Director of Market Services, has been appointed as a Director of the LIFFE Board. In a statement the […]

Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets, commented in his Weekly Roundup to clients; A big week for the markets with participants finally permitted to look away from the prospect of Fed tapering, if only briefly and for disturbing geopolitical and potentially military headlines regarding Syria, only to have to look back again […]

Daily chart: The GBPUSD is finding strong support on the level of 1.5506. If the pair manages to break that level, it is expected to fall to the level of 1.5407, below the 200 day moving average. For now, there is a possibility that the GBPUSD will do a bullish rebound on the current levels […]

Pound Sterling The Pound spent most of the week softer against its peers as concerns over possible military action against Syria was the main driving force behind the markets. Tuesday’s session saw the Pound fall against the Euro following the release of positive data out of the Eurozone and as tensions over Syria saw investors […]

Premier Oil (LSE:PMO) has announced a 2013 half-year profit of $214.6m. Equating to a post-tax profit of $161.1m the company faced problems with its Huntington facility during the same period, though it saw positive news in regard to future plans involving the Falklands and six new Norwegian sites. Commenting on the results Premier Oil’s CEO, […]

The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“RDS”) have announced the Reference Share Price in respect of the second quarter interim dividend of 2013, which was announced on August 1st, 2013 at $0.45 per A ordinary share (“A Share”) and B ordinary share (“B Share”) and $0.90 per American Depository Share (“ADS”). Reference Share Price […]

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP have announced a new gas condensate discovery off the east coast of India in the Cauvery basin. The discovery, in the deepwater block CY-DWN-2001/2 (CYD5), is situated 62 kilometres from the coast in the Cauvery Basin and is the second gas discovery in the block. RIL is the operator […]

Daily chart: The GBPUSD continues to fall below the resistance level at 1.5642 and now, it is likely to fall to support at the 1.5506 level, very close to the 200 day moving average. For this week, GBPUSD shows a bearish trend in development, which could continue for several days if the pair manages to […]

I can still remember when “Casual Friday” became all the rage.  (You youngsters thought there was always a “Casual Friday,” didn’t you?)  I know of one company where the “Casual Friday” expanded to five working days, so they instituted a “Tie Tuesday.”  I got to thinking this morning that today might be an ideal day […]

Pound Sterling The Pound spent most of the week higher against its major peers and on Monday it continued to ride higher against the US Dollar and Euro thanks to last week’s positive economic data releases. House price data released in the afternoon showed that prices had fallen for the first time in six-months in […]