The UK general election 2015 looks set to be one of the most closely watched and hotly contested in years. What with the rise of alternative parties such as UKIP here at home and the success of anti-Europe/Anti-austerity/anti-immigration groups such as Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and Le Front National in France, the political landscape has…
Today there are around 15 oil & gas companies listed on the London Stock Exchange – ranging from Blue Chip giants like BP and Royal dutch Shell to Small Cap movers & shakers like Afren – whose revenues depend directly on finding reservoirs, drilling wells and extracting crude oil to sell on to refineries. With…
It’s likely you’re all au fait with the UK 100 , but something like UK Index Small Cap or AIM may not be as familiar. And if you’d heard of the indices, what do you know about their constituents? The likelihood is that it’s not a lot – small cap shares or ‘alternative investments’ as…
2014 is sooooo last year What an exciting year 2014 has been, with exceptional volatility and trading opportunities, especially since mid-September with both new highs and lows posted on the UK 100 . As we move into year-end with most brokers only now looking at December’s Santa Rally candidates (see our recent report), Accendo Markets…
Popularity from many sources The yellow metal has become one of the most popularly traded commodities thanks to its meteoric rise from lows of $250 at the turn of the millennium to $700/oz when the financial crisis was born mid-2007 and highs of $1925 by mid-2011 when worries about US Subprime defaults were replaced by…