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Wednesday’s Stock Market report featuring JD Wetherspoon, SABMiller, Pets at Home and InternetQ

Wednesday’s Stock Market report featuring JD Wetherspoon, SABMiller, Pets at Home and InternetQ

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The Markets UK job growth slowed over the three months to November, with a net movement of 58,000 people into employment, taking the unemployment rate to 5.8%. This was the slowest rate of improvement since mid 2013, with analysts suggesting that the European slowdown and uncertainty surrounding the General Election may be eating into firms’…

Here Comes the (not so) Big Bazooka

Here Comes the (not so) Big Bazooka

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Economic analysis by Filipe R. Costa We are imminently expecting the very big decision from the ECB on asset purchasing. This could to put a stop to the deflationary spiral the Eurozone is in and give a desperately needed boost to growth and employment. Six years into the financial crisis and Europe has still not…

Amara Mining Raises £14.5 Million Of New Money In Anticipation Of A Favourable Pre-Feasibility Study At Yaoure

Amara Mining Raises £14.5 Million Of New Money In Anticipation Of A Favourable Pre-Feasibility Study At Yaoure

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By Alastair Ford “We applaud the company for raising capital in the current difficult market environment”, wrote analysts at Canaccord, after Amara Mining announced it had completed on a £14.5 million fundraising. The raise was anticipated by Minesite in the article we wrote just a few short weeks ago – here – and fits right…

Anthony Bolton, the UK’s star investor

Anthony Bolton, the UK’s star investor

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by Frederik Vanhaverbeke In the latest of a new series for SBM Frederik Vanhaverbeke, author of Excess Returns: A comparative study of the methods of the world’s greatest investors, looks at how some of the world’s greatest investors are so successful. The biggest mistakes I’ve made over the years have nearly always been in companies…

James Faulkner’s small cap of the week is Clinigen

James Faulkner’s small cap of the week is Clinigen

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Specialty pharmaceuticals firm Clinigen (CLIN) is a stock I have covered here from time to time, and in fact it was one of my tips for the second half of 2014, during which time they put in a solid performance. In a half-year update for the six months ended 31st December 2014, Clinigen said performance…

The morning news update with Unilever, William Hill and dotDigital

The morning news update with Unilever, William Hill and dotDigital

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FTSE 100 Unilever (ULVR) – net profits up by 5% at €5.5 billion in the year to December. Petrofac (PFC) – has received an award notification for the first phase of Kuwait Oil Company’s Lower Fars heavy oil development programme, with Greece based Consolidated Contractors Company as its partner, with a total project value of…

Egdon Resources emphasises its UK conventional drilling prospects as well its shale gas potential
Egdon's shale and conventional licences onshore the UK

Egdon Resources emphasises its UK conventional drilling prospects as well its shale gas potential

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By Stewart Dalby For most of 2014 reporting on AIM listed Egdon Resources seemed dominated by the company’s entry as a significant player in the UK’s embryonic shale gas business. The idea that the UK might replicate the US’s shale “revolution”, which has meant import substitutionand security of supply for the US, has gripped the…

Leyshon Energy to return cash to shareholders and cancel AIM listing
Leyshon packs up in China

Leyshon Energy to return cash to shareholders and cancel AIM listing

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By Amy McLellan Twelve months on from its demerger from Leyshon Resources, and Chinese gas explorer Leyshon Energy is planning to return more than US$15 million in cash to shareholders and cancel its AIM listing. It follows a run of poor results from its Zijinshan project in China and the failure to bring in partners…