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facebook offering reportedly oversubscribed. what a surprise…

News that Facebook’s IPO is oversubscribed will not surprise readers of this blog (see tab to bottom right for our…

Negativity on markets as eurozone and global growth worries dominate

The FTSE 100 closed the week up 32 points at 5,576, but down 1.4% on the week. The Dow Jones…

FRIDAY BLUES – LAST BULLS GETTING THE CONFIDENCE SQUEEZED OUT OF THEM

And so the curtain is about to be drawn on a miserable week for most investors. As posted throughout this…

Top 30 Most Shorted Stocks – FTSE 350

Click here for link from www.squaremiledata.com Company Description Ticker SOL% Index Cove Energy PLC Oil & Gas Producers COV 54.01…

“Rogue trader” hall of fame

Jerome Kerviel, Societe Generale, $7 billion loss Bruno Michel Iksil, JP Morgan, $2.3 billion loss Kweku Adoboli UBS, $2.2 billion loss…

aim oil explorers – another chance to delve into the sweet shop

Xcite Energy - 94p Bowleven - 74p Northern Petroleum - 74p Gulfsands Petroleum - 111p Heritage Oil - 134p For…

“London Whale” loses JP Morgan at least $2 billion

JP Morgan Chase shares were last night down some 7% at $38 in after hours trading after a rather uncomfortable…

Borders and Southern Leiv Eiriksson rig arrives at Stebbing prospect

After months of activity at the Borders and Southern Darwin East well, the Leiv Eiriksson deep water rig has arrived…

AIM stocks take a real beating on wall of worry and snowball of margin calls

UPDATE (1) - 8AM - The 4th print in a week of the Put:Call ration in the US equity only data…

Spanish bonds priced over 6% add to fears in markets

Waiting on the first print of the options volume on the CBOE to guide us as to just how much…