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Boss of Centrica on Radio 4's Today programme this morning was talking about the two year energy review adding to delays in new gas power generation times of four years, i.e. making it unlikely that, starting now, any new gas power plants will be up and running before 2020. Surge demand in the meantime will stretch existing spare capacity wafer thin. Interesting times.

And these are only interims. If BWY can continue to keep this momentum up then 2014 should be a great year. I'm settling in and looking for 2000 before the end of this year. Who says there isn't a housing bubble! Thanks for the earlier post Disco. That point about the land bank is really useful.

Am I missing something? Since the budget only two things have been discussed - pension changes and a house building surge. Yet Bellway slips on a string of low value trades. Is it just nervousness ahead of the interims? Or something else? By my reckoning the fundamentals are all in place here but still there's no SP rise. Or is everyone profit-taking after a good long bull run?

I've never heard of PNC but a top ten US bank is a good win for Earthport. Very confident this company really has got traction now and I can't see what could hold it back. Well done Hank and team for making it work. Move into break even/profitability, establish a bigger footprint, maybe a couple more strategic acquisitions and this lady will sing!

Not sure why this has slipped quite so far. 550 seems very overdone to me. Perhaps some development news flow would help - otherwise I'm just going to sit it out and wait until its starts pointing back to 600 again.

Well done Kenstaff - glad somebody did well out of some very iffy market practices. AIM obviously still has its cowboy brokers. Anyone know anything about Miton?

That's a good announcement - the Japanese tend to be slow to make deals but then they stick with them. EPO definitely on the way up. Must be getting close to break even, although there was a cautionary signal in the announcement about second half this calendar. Back firmly into 40 territory within the next couple of months I reckon.

Smashed down 10 per cent on piddly volume, then £250,000 traded at the low and now we're whizzing back up. And the regulators are worried about LIBOR!

To be back under 40p. I certainly wasn't expecting these levels after the results. I think Alkane's PR is fairly poor. It's all very well for the Nottingham Post to flag the prospects for the company but where's the interviews in the FT, Sunday Times, Daily Mail? Somebody needs to get out there and really explain this story - why it's good for jobs, UK energy supply, and how its looking at environmental concerns.

Lots of chunky trades early on - I wonder if that's directors' purchasing now the closed period is over!!! Excellent numbers this morning. Nothing too flashy but all round upwards progress with a dividend increase to attract the institutional investors. ALK is a really well run company and I'm with you Kenstaff - 50p is on the cards.

I've said this before and now again - don't underestimate the real and substantial level of local opposition to fracking. You might dismiss them as swampies but they come with, and know how to generate, a huge amount of local support. Especially at local authority level, who determine the planning rules. So far the companies involved in fracking haven't done a good job in countering this movement and the government and local authorities are scared of irritating home owners. ALK may have potential fracking sites in the portfolio but in my view there's no early mover advantage on this - it's not worth the hassle yet. ALK needs to stick to what it's doing very well up to now and stay out of the confrontational stuff.

The market likes these results - good rise this morning. The dividend hike is good news too and if the US economy keeps improving TYMN should see further gains. Probably worth hanging in for 300+ I reckon and see what they do with the interims. Keep an eye for improving US construction news, unemployment numbers etc. and watch TYMN move on up.

Hardly the most exciting numbers! Even as admitted by the boss in his baked potato metaphor. Not sure why it justifies being top of the risers leader board. Still - i'm not complaining! I guess a FTSE 100 company growing is good news these days.

Selling three million at 27 just 24 hours after some pretty good interims looks a bit desperate to me! I'll be interested if they generate an RNS about who's selling and who's buying. I think the weak points in the RNS were the gross margins (steady - should be improving) and the cash burn of £3m. But that included Baydonhill acquisition costs so the cash burn against reserves of £8m + should be fine. Otherwise the interims were very good. Perhaps Hank could have included a signal about future break even - that would have helped. So it looks like we have to wait for the annuals for that. But disappointing it's back under 30 when it should be closer to 40!

Jumpy little share this one isn't it! I'm only in a couple of months and I've never known such a volatile share. Up and down like a yoyo! Still, general direction is good, in a strong sector. It'll be 2000 before 1000!.

I'm not a chartist but 580 looked like a double top to me. More generally WKP has had a really good run and I imagine we'll see a lot more profit-taking before we push through 600. An increase in divi would help but there isn't a huge amount of spare cash for that sort of thing. But all the analysts are strongly bullish about UK property for 2014 so this is well worth the ride.

Markets - dontcha just love em! RSA is having a fire sale of assets, facing an almost certain divi cut and a big rights issue. Then there's the flood claims. And we're top of the riser board today. That Mr Hester is a true magician.

Quite a lot of heavy selling in the last few days. Hope it's just a temporary shake-out. US economy seems to be doing OK but TYMN's had a really good run for the last two years so i guess it's inevitable.

Interesting, if not detailed, numbers. Looks like the losses are coming down finally and there's certainly enough cash in the bank. With the various trigger payments coming through now perhaps VECT can move into the black this year?

Come on ALK insiders and experts - let's do some sums. 10 MW of additional STOR mains gas capacity translates into what revenue? Do we know what the average operating rate for STOR capacity is? Even if we assume a modest price close to current averages of around £54 per MWh that should give us a gross revenue numbers although as it's gas I guess we have to take the cost of gas off that for a net figure. All ideas respectfully welcomed. Nice rise today though. Well done ALK BoD again - a well managed company IMO.