US News

In what may be the most strategic, game-changing play in the food service sector in the United States, Sysco (NYSE:SYY) has announced that it will acquire it’s largest competitor, US Foods.  The Sysco share price rose more than 25% before the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange from its previous close of $34.31 […]

Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets, commented in his Weekly Roundup to clients, It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote and the FTSE100 correction has taken yet another leg down (that’s a 5.2% correction from the top). In fact the bad start to December is either here to scupper any […]

Northcote (LSE:NCT), an onshore US oil and gas exploration and production company, has announced that it has acquired a 100% Working Interest (‘WI’) in the East Blackwell Unit (‘East Blackwell’) in Kay County, Oklahoma. Concurrently, the Company has agreed terms for the farm-out of a 20% interest in East Blackwell, in line with its strategy […]

Arria NLG (LSE:NLG) is a spin off a University of Aberdeen incubated business initially called Data2Text.  Arria acquired a 20% interest in Data2Text in May 2012.  On 25 October this year – 40 days ago – Arria completed 100% ownership.  This morning Arria NLG floated its shares on the AIM at 100.0 pence per share. […]

It’s December, a month where people take the opportunity to do holiday shopping and this in particular makes December in one of the months with higher volatility in the currency market. In the U.S. , sales of the famous cyber monday reached a record figure of $ 2.29 billion, thus, the USD Index has been […]

NYSE MKT has announced its final determination to remove the Common Stock (the “Securities”) of Cardero Resources Corp. from listing on the Exchange, and filed an application on Form 25 to strike the Securities from listing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The delisting will become effective on December 6, 2013 unless postponed […]

I can remember when UPS (NYSE:UPS) was what its acronym stands for: United Parcel Service.  Its full name no longer adequately describes the company.  It has become far more than a parcel service.  The initials and stock symbol better describe the state of the UPS share price, especially this past year.  In my humble opinion, […]

The share price of GW Pharmaceuticals (LSE:GWP) has been getting healthier on almost a daily basis since early October.  A well-received year end operations report was published on 18 November, but the share price was boosted even higher with the announcement today that the company’s primary product, Sativex®, has now been approved for use in […]

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, […]

Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets, commented in his Weekly Roundup to clients, Something different this week. Well, kind of. We’re halfway through November meaning just 5 shopping weeks until the big day. It also means market observers such as myself are busy updating their annual Santa Rally research showing off their […]