Contrarian Investor UK

Barclays and Glencore play the money game forgetting customers and investors yet again!

Not the finest hour for business tonight. Barclays has agreed to pay a fine of £290 million after investigators determined…

US data provides excuse for move up in equities

Strong pending home sales data and good durable goods orders from the US have given Wall Street and European markets…

Rough day yet again for small cap oil and gas investors

More pain for AIM oil and gas investors. Rockhopper -6% 245p (52 week range 141p-393p) Investors continue to wait with…

Investors addicted to the drug of stimulus

It really is a crazy world! For stock market investors, global equity indices are ebbing and flowing as expectations change…

Facebook shares stage strong recovery on mobile ad hopes

After a botched IPO, Facebook shares fell as low as $25.50 earlier in June at which point we recommended a…

Max Petroleum share price collapses as funding issues loom

Kazakhstan focused oil producer Max Petroleum is currently down 53% to 4.1p after falling as low as 2.5p earlier today…

Xcite Energy announces $155 million reserves based lending deal

Following the huge disappointment of the 80p placing a couple of weeks ago, Xcite Energy has pulled the reserves based…

8% drop in oil price so far this week caps ugly few months

Brent crude oil prices have had a rough time of late. Now trading at just under $90 a barrel, it…

No surprises from US Federal Reserve as it rejects further quantitative easing for now

After a two day long meeting the US Federal Reserve FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) decided to extend “Operation Twist”…

Chariot Oil and gas rises 15% on stake building rumours

Chariot Oil and Gas has spurted 15% higher to 99p on plenty of rumours of stake building and even a…