Fiona Craig

London open: Stocks rise as Greece creditors agree to unlock fresh bailout funds London stocks rose on Wednesday after the eurozone finance ministers agreed to unlock €10bn in bailout funds. Following an 11-hour meeting in Brussels, eurozone ministers and the International Monetary Fund came to a deal to release fresh loans to Greece after agreeing […]

The key points from today’s economic news, brought to you by Guardian Stockbrokers. BoE leaves interest rate at 0.50% The BoE held interest rates at a historic low level of 0.50% and kept its quantitative easing programme on hold at £375.0 billion. amid signs of a slowdown in the UK economy and fears over a […]

At the beginning of the year, the UK Government’s Office for Science released a paper entitled ‘Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond blockchain.’ For many who heard the government’s chief scientist, Sir Mark Walport, discussing the report on BBC’s Radio Four, it might have felt liked they’d banged their heads and woken up a few years later […]

Silex (UK) has become one of the first companies outside of Cyprus to list a bond on the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE), offering investor opportunities in the lucrative olive oil sector in southern Spain. Recognised by HMRC, the CSE allows private or public companies to list their bonds on the Emerging Companies Market (ECM). Silex […]

London open: Stocks gain after better-than-forecast China trade data London stocks gained on Wednesday after Chinese trade data came in better than expected. China’s trade surplus widened to 382.05bn yuan in December from 343.10bn yuan in November, beating analysts’ forecasts of 338.80bn yuan. Exports rose unexpectedly by 2.3% in December following a 3.7% dip a […]

The key points from today’s economic news, brought to you by Guardian Stockbrokers. UK industrial production unexpectedly eased in November On a MoM basis, in November, industrial production recorded an unexpected drop of 0.70% in the UK, compared to a revised unchanged reading in the prior month. Markets were anticipating industrial production to record an […]

Coinsilium Group Limited, the blockchain technology investment and development company, has announced that it has acquired the last available equity in the original seed capital round of financial inclusion blockchain technology company, Fuzo Limited (“Fuzo”), formerly known as bitSIM Holdings Ltd. Fuzo has developed, through a combination of blockchain technology and proprietary...

Troubled company Quindell has changed its name to the Watchstone Group (LSE:WTG), presumably in the hope that it can shed its terrible reputation (and possibly bamboozle Google searchers). But it can’t escape its problems that easily. The company has announced its intention to reduce the company’s share capital, return capital to the shareholders, and consolidate […]

London open: All eyes on US Fed minutes US rate-setters certainly seem to want to begin raising interest rates as soon as possible, but will they? Should they? Analysts believed the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting, which were set to be published on Wednesday evening, might help to shed some light on […]

Largest crowdfunding platform in Europe will be crowdfunding Coinsilium’s IPO. Seedrs announced today that it has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to participate in the initial public offering (IPO) of Coinsilium Group Limited, a blockchain investment company that supports early-stage companies through investment, advisory and education. Shares in Coinsilium will be quoted on the ICAP...