Mar 10 2015 @ 15:01
“Like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren’t that way to start with.” Sounds like someone commenting on the stock market – and anyone involved with it – doesn’t it? One day everyone is euphoric. The next, they are ready to admit themselves to the nearest […]
Mar 05 2015 @ 18:09
The FTSE failed once again to soar about the coveted 7,000 mark. However, it closed at yet another record high again today, finishing at 6,961.14. As Maxwell Smart, the infamously inept spy from the mid-1960s TV program Get Smart, would say, “Missed it by that much!” If you weren’t around in the mid-60’s, ask your […]
Mar 03 2015 @ 15:33
The share price of Barclays (
LSE:BARC) fell 3.22% on the LSE today, closing at 254.30, dragging the nearly record-setting FTSE 100 index from its lofty heights of 02 March back to 6,889.13. The decline today was clearly attributable to two things: the release of the bank’s final results for the year ended 31 December 2014 […]
Mar 03 2015 @ 14:23
The share price of Glencore (
LSE:GLEN) dropped by 3.11% in trading today, closing at 291.20. Since Glencore acquired Xstrata in May 2013 the impact of picking up the coal mining assets has combined with the broader world economic conditions to weigh on the company’s FY 2014 results. Taking the good with the bad On the […]
Mar 02 2015 @ 13:10
Lately the U.S. and UK markets have been getting excitinger and excitinger. I know that’s bad grammar, but I just can’t help it. It’s exciting! We’ve been watching the FTSE 100 as we promised. (Obviously we would do that anyway.) But we can’t ignore the NASDAQ and the Russell 2000, both of which are reaching […]
Feb 27 2015 @ 12:23
The folks over at International Consolidated Airlines Group (
LSE:IAG) are on Cloud 9 today as investor confidence was reflected in a 3.66% share price increase and a volume that was 44% higher than average. IAG closed at 580.00, up 20.50 points on a volume of 10.5 million shares traded. The share’s high for the day […]
Feb 24 2015 @ 11:03
I’m sitting here watching the clock with one eye and watching the FTSE with the other – just like everyone else involved in any way with the London Stock Market today. Observers have been cautiously optimistic watching the FTSE get closer to the almost incomprehensible height of 7,000. But, lest we forget, in about five […]
Feb 16 2015 @ 14:47
The share price of FTSE 100 member, AstraZenca, plunged 82.50 points, a decline of 1.81%, to 4,468.50 today, following announcement of an adverse ruling by the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. The court ruled, in a continuation of a case that has been on the its docket since 2013, that AstraZeneca’s patent number 6,598,603 is […]
Feb 11 2015 @ 14:59
ARM Holdings (
LSE:ARM) share price is up 2.94% today and, in a moment, I shall tell you why. But first, I would like to say that ARM is one of the most fascinating and well-conceived companies that I know. I and my ADVFN colleagues devote a significant amount of copy to ARM Holdings – and […]
Feb 03 2015 @ 10:04
“We have now entered a new and challenging phase of low oil prices through the near and medium term. Our focus must now be on resetting BP.” ~ CEO Bob Dudley. A funny thing happened on the way to the office this morning. I read that BP (LSE:BP.) (
NYSE:BP) had released its final quarterly report […]