UK Corporate Announcements Kazakhmys states that it sees a positive outlook for copper, as it details H1 sales of $1.52bn from $1.82bn but does state that its performance has been affected by lower metals prices Diageo announces organic operating profits gained 9% just ahead of the forecasts and recommends an 8% increase in its dividend SIG…
Renewed stimulus seems to be very much back on the agenda giving stock market indices a boost today. Yesterday’s weak manufacturing data from China added to the pressure on the government to intervene to hit its 7.5% GDP growth target. The PMI index dropped from 49.5 in July to 47.8 in August (anything under 50…
Ben Bernanke, Chairman of FOMC Following a lacklustre start to the main session in the US today, equity markets closed on a strong note following the FED Minutes release. According to the FED Minutes, the open market committee is concerned with the current growth pace of the US economy, similarly with consumer spending and unemployment…
The countdown to the gas condensate results is in motion and with the look of the chart over the last 10 days somebody, including Ignis, thinks that there are commercial anounts there… On 23rd April, Borders and Southern announced that despite plenty of hype about a huge oil find from the SUN newspaper amongst others, the…
Our long GBP/AUD trade is playing out nicely and is at a fresh daily high. We exited half our position that was entered into in 2 tranches (at an average of 1.4860) at 1.5020 but are running the balance. We raise our stop today to 1.5040 – just below the 3 day exponential moving average…
While the Dow and S&P500 eased back yesterday on low volumes, the Nasdaq’s intraday high of 2,799.84 was the highest level since December 2000. It looks like the US indices are now encountering resistance following 6 weeks of consecutive gains and some weakness near term looks to be on the cards, particularly as traders return from…
Yesterday morning Red Emperor Resources requested a temporary suspension of trading in its shares on AIM pending an announcement in relation to a drilling update on the Shabeel North well. Red Emperor’s partner in Puntland (Somalia) – Range Resources, issued a statement later in the morning that “Range wishes to advise that final downhole logging is currently…
Here’s the 10 day chart for XEL. Where volume goes, price invariably does… We have a clear breakout on the chart from the long down trend in place since February and the technicals indicate a move to 120p. Our fellow blogger Contrarian Investor UK has opined on possible reasons in his blogs this week. Ours…
UK Corporate Announcements Derwent London announces H1 revenues of £63.2m from £63.5m and a pre-tax profit of £26.5m and saw property values up 3.3% Carrillion announces an H1 pre-tax profit of £64.1m on revenues of £2.156bn and expects to report full year trading in line with the forecasts as it has 92% 2012 revenue visibility…
After a good day yesterday, Xcite Energy shares were languishing for most of the day, until an RNS late in the afternoon that the third and final stage of its private placing with Global Resource Funding Partners LLC had been completed. The shares closed up 1p at 85p. The third stage, issued 12,000,000 units (share…
