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Europe continues to deny talk of 'crisis'

14th November 19 By: Shant

It is now widely acknowledged that the Eurozone is undergoing a series slowdown in economic activity, hurt by a number of key factors, top of which is the diminishing global demand which hits all exp...

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Sound, Coro, Echo, Wentworth, Eco, Longboat, Talon, + Africa Oil Week 2019 videos…

13th November 19 By: Malcy

WTI $56.80 -6c, Brent $62.06 -12c, Diff -$5.26 -6c, NG $2.62 -2c Sound Energy Sound announced yesterday two board changes, Mohammed Seghri takes over from James Parsons as interim CEO altho...

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Predator, SDX

12th November 19 By: Malcy

Predator has announced an update on its CO2 EOR operations in Trinidad. It states that Columbus has announced the extension of the Inniss-Trinity IPSC to allow for the implementation of the Pilot CO2...

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Oil price, Genel, Reabold/Union Jack - And finally...

11th November 19 By: Malcy

WTI $57.24 +9c, Brent $62.51 +22c, Diff -$5.27 +13c, NG $2.79 +2c Oil price Oil has carried a gentle rally over recent days, primarily as news about the trade talks is generally better alth...

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Reflect & Prepare

8th November 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

The focus in the US has been all on the US-China trade talks, with both sides working hard to get to the stage where they can sign Phase One of a trade deal.  However, China is insisting on the ...

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Hurricane, Savannah

8th November 19 By: Malcy

Hurricane Energy In response to media speculation regarding the Warwick West well Hurricane has issued an RNS this morning. They say that the well is due to commence testing soon but the timing ...

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Bank of England to fall in line with central bank peers?

8th November 19 By: Shant

Today's announcement from the Bank of England was supposed to be a formality, in so much as the ongoing uncertainty from the failure to resolve the Brexit process leaves the MPC in limbo as much as i...

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FTSE 100 Update

8th November 19 By: Rajan Dhall

The FTSE 100 is now lagging further behind its US counterparts now as the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq are hitting or are near all-time highs.   Germany's DAX is also not too far off a major re...

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Oil price, Aminex – And finally…

6th November 19 By: Malcy

WTI $57.23 +69c, Brent $62.96 +83c, Diff -$5.73 +14c, NG $2.86 +4c Oil price Oil continues to drive slowly upwards, yesterday it was the turn of Barkindo who said that Opec cuts may be mode...

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Fiat/Chrysler merger announcement with PSA is the easy part

5th November 19 By: Shant

Last week, FCA (Fiat/Chrysler) and the PSA Groupe announced a 50/50 merger which would look to take advantage of economies of scale in a global climate gripped with fierce competition in every sector...

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Reflect and Prepare

1st November 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve announced another rate cut of 25bps, taking the total for the year to 75bps, reducing the Fed Funds rate down to 1.75%.  The interest rate on excess reserv...

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The rot is setting in, will a new government help the High Street?

1st November 19 By: Shant

Due to the Brexit impasse, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson saw little alternative but to push for a general election, and after a shaky start to the week, we finally saw the House of...

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What is actually driving the equities bull run?

31st October 19 By: Rajan Dhall

The S&P has just hit all-time highs and although the FTSE 100 is lagging the indices often follow each other.   Quantitative easing has been all the rage amongst central banks and lowe...

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So what did the latest FOMC tells us...

31st October 19 By: Shant

Apart from the 25bp cut in the Fed funds rate, the FOMC meeting was a little short of anything else we didn't know.  The US economy is coming off the boil and in order to maintain the pace of gr...

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Sound Energy, Range Resources

30th October 19 By: Malcy

Sound Energy Sound has announced that it has signed an MOU for a GSA at its Tendrara concession in Eastern Morocco with ONEE, the State Power Company. It appears to have been worth waiting for a...

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Passive investing in mining stocks

29th October 19 By: Rajan Dhall

It's fair to say that since Donald Trump has been around mining stocks have been volatile. When he came to power the fiscal stimulus and all of his "build a wall" antics helped push the price of...

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Investment Trusts - What are they?

28th October 19 By: Rajan Dhall

What is an investment trust?   This is where your money is pooled with contributions from lots of other people and used to buy a portfolio of investments. The assets are chosen and mana...

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Reflect & Prepare

25th October 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

Events in the US surround the ongoing trade negotiations with China, and on this, hopes are once again raised as both sides are looking to agree on a 'Phase One' deal.  This will involve China p...

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Industrial bellwether signals the impact of uncertainty

25th October 19 By: Shant

For over 18 months now, the world economy has been suffering from ever-increasing uncertainty over trade tensions between the US and China, with effective policy action starting with the announcement...

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Identify the theme, and a potential beneficiary

25th October 19 By: David Harbage

Active fund managers are those who endeavour to outperform a particular benchmark, such as UK equity’s FTSE100, as opposed to passive investors who seek to track or match an index. The reader m...

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