After Friday’s large rise, Cameroon focused oil explorer, Bowleven fell back to earth today with a 12% drop to 62p. Rumours were rife of another potential takeover bid after the aborted talks with Dragon Oil earlier in the year fell through. No sign of any announcement at the start of the week sent the speculators…
Aluminium producer -Alcoa’s results after the US market close tonight signal the start of the second quarter 2012 earnings season. Plenty for investors around the world to digest as many of the world’s biggest companies give some insights on how the eurozone crisis and slowing Chineseeconomy is hitting their bottom lines. Not only is Alcoa…
On Friday the US Labor market continued to show signs of struggling with the jobless rate remaining at 8.2%. No US President has been re-elected to office when the unemployment rate has been above 8%, so Obama will have his work cut out for him in what is likely to be a make or break 6…
A bit of a re-tracement in Bowleven this morning with the stock currently down 10% at 64p and probing the lows of the day in unison with a moribund market backdrop. Deathly silence out of the Company considering all the weekend press speculation and also the near 7% of the company’s entire equity changing hands…
We covered Ceres Power in the last edition of our magazine as part of the “5 potential 10 baggers” feature (click here, page 16 – http://issuu.com/spreadbetmagazine/docs/spreadbet-magazine-v6_generic) which included a short interview with David Pumell. The company, although sat with around £14m cash at present, does require funding by around £40m through to 2016 – the…
Reasonably bullish signs have emerged in the price of Crude Oil, the latest chart signals seem to indicate that support at 2 year lows near $76-$77 per barrel has been found. Not only was price support tested, but slowing momentum was obvious in the form of a long-term positive divergence. It is always good to…
The Wall Street Sentiment Survey is unique in that the poll is taken on Friday after the market closes, and it asks participants for their forecast for the following week. This differs from other polls that take opinions through the week during periods when the market is active and changing. Last week’s survey results (June…
Following CityUnslickers post this Saturday with a Trading Buy Call on Emed Mining, news this morning seems to underscore his stance with a small capital rasing of $5m at 10p per share to part fund the purchase of land which adjoins the Rio Tinto copper mine they are looking to restart mining operations at. A…
UK Corporate Announcements Michael Page International announces an H1 gross profit of £273.9m and Q2 gross profit of £138m down 6.6% and sees a challenging Q3 ahead JJB Sports warns that it now sees sales materially short of expectations after 22 week LFL sales fell 8% Bovis Homes states that trading has been in line and details that it has…
MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 UK Reporting:- Bovis Homes Group Plc, BVS, (R), Centaur Media Plc, CAU, (SM), Michael Page International, MPI, (R), RM Plc, RM, (R), XP Power Ltd, XPP, (R) S&P 500 Reporting:- Alcoa Q2 0.060 Euro Stoxx 600 Reporting:- None Scheduled Economic Data:- 00:50 Japan May Machine orders, -2.6% est. 5.7% previous 07:00 German May Current…
