Ever since Plus put themselves up for sale in early February, the company’s long suffering shareholders have been waiting on tenterhooks to find out if management have managed to obtain a fair value for the business. The companies woes in recent years, that have variously involved the departures of both former CEO Simon Brickles and…
News that Facebook’s IPO is oversubscribed will not surprise readers of this blog (see tab to bottom right for our previous piece on Wall Street’s usual IPO shenanigans). It looks like the company will raise at least $10.6bn with the shares priced towards the top end of the $28 – $35 range and so valuing…
The FTSE 100 closed the week up 32 points at 5,576, but down 1.4% on the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 12,821 with Dow component J.P. Morgan falling 9.3% after revealing losses of at least $2 billion as a result of trades gone wrong by the so called “London Whale”, Bruno Michel…
And so the curtain is about to be drawn on a miserable week for most investors. As posted throughout this week it looks to us like there has been a margin washout and todays poor price action on Italian bond yield woes is really squeezing the last vestiges of patience out of the remaining market…
Click here for link from www.squaremiledata.com Company Description Ticker SOL% Index Cove Energy PLC Oil & Gas Producers COV 54.01 FA050 INTERNATIONAL POWER PLC Electricity IPR 24.86 F100 TALVIVAARA MINING COMPANY LTD Industrial Metals TALV 24.15 F250 OCADO Food and Drug Retailers OCDO 22.22 F250 WEIR GROUP PLC Industrial engineering WEIR 20.40 F100 FERREXPO PLC…
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JP Morgan Chase shares were last night down some 7% at $38 in after hours trading after a rather uncomfortable conference call between Jamie Dimon and analysts declaring a completely unexpected $2 billion trading losses in synthetic investment vehicles. The culprit was part of the Banks so called proprietary trading desk. The losses were caused…
After months of activity at the Borders and Southern Darwin East well, the Leiv Eiriksson deep water rig has arrived at the Stebbing prospect. The Darwin well was actually spudded on 31st January 2012, but technical issues with the rig meant that the gas condensate discovery was not announced until 23rd April 2012. Stebbing is in…
UPDATE (1) – 8AM – The 4th print in a week of the Put:Call ration in the US equity only data yesterday has only occurred once before in the last 3 years – rigth before the sharp rallies last August off the lows of last August. This ratio has one of the highest success measures I…
