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Risers:  Premier Oil +3.54% Premier Oil is currently leading the FTSE 250 after the company revealed that Chief Executive Simon Lockett is to step down from his role. Commenting on his decision, Mr Lockett has said: “I believe now is an appropriate time for a change in leadership as the business moves into its next phase.…

The demand for gold bullion is increasing. Each day there’s more evidence that suggests this phenomenon will continue. We see consumers buying gold bullion across the global economy. As a result, mints are working in overdrive mode to meet this demand and gold storage facilities are looking to add more vaults.  The Brinks Company (NYSE/BCO),…

Yesterday marked a continuation of a re-pricing of risk. The market is demanding a greater premium to hold riskier assets as a result of a general change to earnings expectations and the future cost of capital. Put those factors into a pot that contains a market that hasn’t seen a significant correction in over seven…

We have to go all the way back to 2002 the last time there was actually a decline on this day and then it was just 0.1%. Waiting to see the option sentiment prints to see which way the wind is likely to blow… For more useful stats click the image below for your copy…

Unless you are asleep, or perhaps a member of the Cabinet, you cannot have failed to notice that in recent days there has been explosion in the price action of key AIM stocks. This has been a favourite area of the stock market for me for quite some time. What helps drive the enthusiasm is…

Risers:  BAA Aviation PLC +1.34% BAA Aviation PLC has today sold its APPH entities to H roux-Devtek Inc. for $128m. The aviation support and services provider is said to being using the cash to reduce its net borrowings and further details of an appropriate return of cash to its shareholders is set to be revealed…

Via Citi FX Technicals, Looking across the spectrum of the US, Europe and Japan we have seen some bearish technical indicators develop in recent weeks While these are certainly concerning, we need to see more evidence/breaks of more important levels before it suggests that we could see a more serious (Possibly double digit percentage) corrections…

After the savage sell-off global bourses have experienced since the turn of the year, many investors are starting to question the sustainability of the economic recovery. Dominating the thoughts of market participants has been several factors including; Chinese growth concerns, tapering fears, earnings and emerging market fears. Unfortunately, one of these key factors has been…