Lou Gutheil

Pace plc (LSE:PIC), the world leader in TV set-top boxes, set the pace for the LSE today with its share price surging 15.72% to 132.50 pence by the noon hour, following the release of its interim management statement for the six months ending 30 June 2012.  The stock hit a new high for the past […]

Was Robby Burns thinking of the Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE:RBS) when he wrote that “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley?”  RBS is continuing to try to regain its footing after its £45 billion government bailout.  The bailout was not without obligations.  As it strategises to meet some of those obligations, […]

Shares of Tethys Petroleum (LSE:TPL) slid by 1.50 pence to 43.50 today, losing some of the momentum from yesterday’s 4.00 pence gain following its announcement of a major resource upgrade in its assets in Tajikistan. The Resource Upgrade Tethys announced yesterday that it had received an updated resource report from Gustavson Associates regarding the company’s […]

Independent oil and gas explorer and producer, Gulf Keystone Limited (LSE:GKP) said it now has gross oil in place of about 12.4 billion barrels from its Shaikan block in the Kurdistan region in Iraq. The latest report is the fourth revision of the P90 estimates, indicating an increase of about 4.4 billion barrels from the […]

Lloyds Banking Group plc (LSE:LLOY) has agreed to sell 632 of its branches, including the TSB and Cheltenham & Gloucester brands, to the Co-operative Group plc for £350 million.  The deal will make The Co-operative Group a major competitor in British banking, as it will represent 7% of the UK banking network with about 4.8 […]

After reporting its best results ever this morning, Mobile Streams’ shares (LSE:MOS) dropped.  That’s right, they dropped . . . almost 9.5% to 24.00p, proving that life can often be a conundrum.  Who knows what investors are thinking? The Full Year Trading Update The company reported revenue of £20 million with no exceptional items.  Having […]

The share price of Monetise (LSE:MONI) jumped more than 5% in early trading on the London Stock Exchange to 30.50 pence after the world’s leading m-commerce provider announced another projected record performance for their 2012 fiscal year ending 30 June.  Full results are to be published on 4 September 2012. Third Consecutive Double Digit Revenue […]

Borders & Southern (LSE:BOR) share price took a dive of Olympic proportions this morning, falling over 70% on “disappointing” news from the Falklands. The share price had fallen from 62.25p to 17.20p at 8:38am, recovering slightly to 18.50p by 11:20am. Problems at Stebbing Well Borders & Southern is exploring for gas and oil in the […]

Shares in the small-cap oil and gas exploration company, Bayfield Energy Holdings plc (LSE:BEH), surged 38.5% today, the largest percentage gain on the London Stock Exchange today by more than 6%.  The share price has risen 5.00 pence to 18.00, recovering in a single day of trading what it had lost in the previous month. […]

Like a runner tripping near the finish line, G4S (LSE:GFS) share price stumbled today on the news that it would not be able to meet its contractual commitment to supply 13,700 security guards for the London Olympic Games.  The share price had dropped 7.30 pence to 283.10 by early afternoon as G4S made the headlines […]