Leed Resources Share News (LDP)

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Leed Resources Non-Executive Buys First Shares

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Government Completes 2nd Lloyds Bank Stake Sale

LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK government has raised a further GBP4.20 billion from its second sale of Lloyds Banking Group PLC shares, meaning it has now recouped GBP7.41 billion of the roughly GBP21 million that taxpayers injected into the bank during the financial crisis.<

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Standard Life Leads FTSE 100 Risers

LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.

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FTSE 100 - WINNERS

Standard Life, up 5.2%. The company has agreed to buy Ignis Asset Mana

Leed Resources Loss Narrows, Announces Spending Reduction Targets

LONDON (Alliance News) - Leed Resources PLC Wednesday said its pretax loss narrowed in its first half, announced spending reduction targets, and said it plans to shift investment focus. The natural resources investment company, which is yet to produce any revenues, narrowed its pretax loss

REPEAT: UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Markets Jolted By Ukraine Crisis

LONDON (Alliance News) - Stocks have tumbled across the world, while gold and oil prices have jumped sharply, after Russia moved over the weekend to take control of the Crimea, prompting fears that Ukraine could end up going to war with its bigger neighbour.

The oil price has hit a

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Markets Jolted By Ukraine Crisis

LONDON (Alliance News) - Stock have tumbled across the world, while gold and oil prices have jumped sharply, after Russia moved over the weekend to take control of the Crimea, prompting fears that Ukraine could end up going to war with its bigger neighbour.

The oil price has hit a 2

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Gold Miners Benefit As Gold Price Rises

LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday.

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Increasing geopolitical tension following Russia's decision to mobilize its troops in the Crimea region of Ukraine over the weekend has p

Leed Resources Slides As Directors Cancel All Outstanding Share Options

LONDON (Alliance News) - Leed Resources PLC saw its shares fall sharply Monday after it said its directors had agreed to cancel all their outstanding share options, part of its efforts to turnaround the business. In December, the company had reported a GBP1.3 million loss for its last finan

Leed Resources Writes Down Full Investment In Troubled Manas Coal

Viridas flogs Leed Petroleum stake

Viridas, the natural resource investment firm, has decided the time is right to cash in on its investment in fellow investor in natural resources, Leed Petroleum. The company made just short of £2.9m after selling 592.7m Leed shares at 0.48p per share. Following this sale, Viridas will continue to

Leed Petroleum jumps after coking coal acquisition

Shares in Leed Petroleum, the AIM-listed natural resources investment company, jumped by 20% on Monday after the acquisition of a 17.5% stake in Kyrgyz Republic-focused coking coal firm Manas Coal. "The investment in Manas represents an opportunity to buy into a prospectively high value coal projec

London close: Rally falls short as Libya casts shadow

Strong consumer confidence figures in the US sparked an impressive rally from the top share index this afternoon following earlier gloom over the Libyan turmoil and the higher oil price, but worries re-emerged and the FTSE 100 finished below 6,000. BHP Billiton is one of those that has limped into

London afternoon: Modest rally continues

Shares continued to pare the morning's losses over the lunch time trading session, and from a position at the mid-morning stage where only five FTSE 100 constituents were in positive territory, by 2pm that number had grown to around 20. BHP Billiton is one of those that has limped into the black. T

Leed approaches unsatisfactory

AIM-quoted Leed Petroleum says that there are a number of parties interested in buying some or all of its principle oil and gas assets but none of the proposals has been good enough to put the company on a more secure financial footing. The approaches came about after Macquarie Tristone was appoin

London close: Strong gains for FTSE 100

Share prices edged back from earlier highs ahead of the close, but still finished with good gains as fears over European sovereign debt contagion recede in the wake of a show of support for eurozone bond issues from Japan. It has been a good day for banks, with Societe Generale issuing a bullish no