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Resource stocks have driven the Footsie into the red after a bright start. The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has cost BP about $760m (£525m) so far and the under-fire oil giant faces being "pushed out of the way" if its clean-up operation doesn't do better. So far 23,000 claims have been fi
Read moreOn an largely directionless day for Footsie, the leading share index was just a few points higher at trading's close. Shares in BP were under pressure again. The oil giant followed what has become a daily update on the oil leak situation in the Gulf of Mexico with an announcement that it will pay
Read moreLondon has made a bright start in all senses with the index picking up handily and the weather matching it. Prudential is the best performer on reports that US firm AIG has drawn up plans to float its Asian arm again if the Pru's attempts to buy it collapse. Miners are also going well on the rally
Read moreThe sun is shining in London and it looks like the stock market will make a similarly bright start to the week with traders expecting the FTSE 100 to open around 30 points higher. South African platinum miner Lonmin's plans to get its Number One furnace back fully on line have hit a snag that will
Read moreRecession has kept Albemarle & Bond's pawnbroker business performing strongly and it expects results for the 12 months to June 2010 to meet market expectations. The pawnbroker business continues to go well with the pledge book, adjusted for prior year old gold loans, now showing about 10% year-on-y
Read moreHammerson, the FTSE 100 shopping centre owner behind the Bullring, in Birmingham, and Brent Cross, in North London, disclosed that it has restarted new development activity ? perhaps the clearest sign yet that it believes the extraordinary turmoil of the past three years is over. At 387½p, the sha
Read moreFootsie struggled to find any sense of direction on a quiet day's trading, closing slightly in the red. Bunzl showed a healthy rise as the market was encouraged by a strong second half for the group that saw margins improve. Foreign exchange tailwinds enabled the outsourcing and distribution group
Read moreThe lunch-time session was a positive one for blue-chip equities despite Wall Street opening modestly lower, with banks and miners leading the advance. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has usurped Bunzl as the best performer of the day. The part-nationalised lender, like its counterpart Lloyds Banking,
Read moreInvestors may be wise to tread carefully with M&S. Its shares have rocketed by more than 65 per cent this calendar year and the price is now above where it was in early June 2008 - before the worst of the credit crunch. While other retail shares are more expensive, M&S's shares, which trade on a 20
Read moreA very strong second half performance saw pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond's full year pre-tax profits rise by half as much again from the preceding year's level. Profit before tax rose to £14.6m in the year to 30 June 2009 from £9.7m a year earlier, on revenue that rose to £55.5m from £46.9m. Pawnbrok
Read moreDistributor Diploma shares are trading on a September 2009 earnings multiple of 8.9 times, which does not look too demanding, and they are yielding 5.8%, which is pretty impressive. The strength of the group's balance sheet means that this looks pretty secure and the company is well placed to snap
Read moreTrifast announced today that senior independent non-executive director Neil Chapman spent £21,500 on shares in the industrial fastener and components group. Chapman bought 100,000 shares at a price of 21.5p each on 17 June, the same day Trifast binned its final dividend in view of difficult tradin
Read morePawnbroker Albermarle & Bond has made hay in the current tough climate. At the end of last May, A&B indicated profits this year would be significantly higher than expected. The core pawnbroker business has been boosted by the higher price of gold, which has enhanced the yield on unredeemed loans, A
Read moreReed Elsevier director and boss of the firm's LexisNexis business, Andrew Prozes, has pocketed over £400,000 from share sales. Prozes sold 10,600 Reed Elsevier American Depository Receipts (ADRs), equal to 42,400 ordinary shares, at $32.33 each. He also offloaded 14,600 Reed Elsevier NV ADRs, equi
Read moreEngineering software group Aveva is a good, solid group and those worried about keeping their equity safe should consider the company a decent punt. For that reason the Independent is still a buyer though it cautions that the gains seen over the last few months may not be repeated. Buy. Aveva is a
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