LSE Market News

The Britvic (LSE:BVIC) share price shot up today on release of its preliminary results for the year ending 29 September 2013 and the announcement that it has entered into a new distribution agreement with Pepsico Americas.  Britvic shares are up 3.13% to 626.00 pence, continuing growth in its share price over the past 12 months, […]

Armadale (LSE:ACP), an AIM quoted investment company focused on natural resource projects in Africa, have released assay results from the Company’s recent investment in the highly prospective, low-cost, Mpokoto Gold Project in the Katanga Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The results were returned from the final 20 holes of a […]

How about Really Bad Service?  How about Run by Blokes with no Scruples?  Or Riddled By Scandals?  Or, for the more sophisticated, Robbery by Sophism?  Or, synonymously, Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE:RBS). RBS is a glowing example of the conflict between ethics & morals on the one hand and revenues & profits on the other. […]

BP (LSE:BP.) have announced it has added two drilling rigs to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, bringing its fleet to a company record nine rigs as it continues to develop its strong portfolio of assets in the key U.S. offshore basin. One of the rigs is a new ultra-deepwater drillship known as the West Auriga […]

Here we are on that Thursday of each month where the entire financial universe slows to nearly a crawl waiting for the US Federal Reserve to announce its next move.  If we are just going to sit around and wait, why don’t we do it at the Albion or Three Lords and raise a pint […]

The share price of FTSE 250 member Telecom Plus (LSE:TEP) took off this morning like a rocket and has continued to climb at mid-day to 1747.0.  That is nearly a 16% increase on the yesterday’s close of 1507.0.  The intraday increase was powered by the TEP’s acquisition of Electricity Plus Supply Ltd and Gas Plus […]

Mariana Resources (LSE:MARL), an AIM quoted exploration and development company focused in Peru and southern Argentina, have released positive initial results from scout drilling at Pucayacu target of the Condor de Oro copper-gold project, located along the prolific gold-copper Cordillera del Condor belt in Northern Peru. Highlights: – First two holes indicate multiple mineralisation...

Beacon Hill Resources (LSE:BHR) (ASX:BHU), the AIM and ASX listed coal producer, have provided an update on rail logistics at its flagship asset, the Minas Moatize Coal Mine in Tete, Mozambique. · Arrival of maiden test train to trial the Tete coal loading facility · Five new 2,240 kW diesel locomotives on track to be […]

Noricum Gold (LSE:NMG), an Austrian focused gold exploration and development company, have completed their 2013 underground drill programme at the previously producing gold mine within the Rotgulden Gold, Silver and Precious Metals Project and the commencement of phase two of its systematic soil sampling and geochemistry programme at the 100% owned Schonberg Gold and Precious […]

Plexus Holdings (LSE:POS), the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, have confirmed it has extended a contract with Centrica North Sea Gas Ltd (‘Centrica’) for the supply and sale of an additional POS-GRIP wellhead system (5,000 psi) and services for the GROVE […]