Looking at the trades going through at that time (10.14am) on the actual London Stock Exchange site, it would appear to have been a sell. But then the bid and the ask started going up just a couple of minutes later. If I were to plump for one, I would go with a sell.
"Surely the savvy buyers over the Atlantic have access to buy at our opening time of 08:00 GMT?"
Greenhighlander, they do, but it's more about traders and investors over here waiting to see how the Canadian market reacts. I imagine AM will very quickly be in profit on his purchases, and then hopefully we can kick on.
Are we going to have this wa nkfest every time the traders take it up a couple of pennies and then drop it down again? It's actually quite embarrassing now.
Traders will take it up until about 3pm(ish) and then drop it on its arse as usual. Same old sh it, different day. (Please God, I know you don’t exist but let me be wrong this one time.)