The FTSE 100 barely budged in early trade in London on Monday, in the aftermath of what was a busy week of central banking action.Rate cut hope spurred on equities last week. The governor of the Bank of England, meanwhile, said rate cuts are ?in play?.Among individual shares, Direct Line and Mobico plunged at the start of the week. Kingfisher declined after softer earnings.The FTSE 100 index opene

Shares in Frontier Developments (FDEV:AIM) seem to be on a continual downward spiral, having fallen 84% year-to-date to the 154p mark.The once high-flying Cambridge-based games software group has been hit by a series of profit warnings, the last one causing its shares to slide over 20% in a day.This latest slump came after the firm cut its full-year sales guidance for 2024 following weaker-tha

Stocks in London made a bullish start to the shortened trading week on Tuesday, picking up where they left off on Friday, despite somewhat worrying economic data.Since Friday's European close, there have been less-than-stellar readings of the US and Chinese economies.The rest of the week is data-heavy, with a US inflation reading and UK gross domestic product data. Focus will also be on the start

The likes of Rio Tinto and Prudential surged to the top of the FTSE 100 index as markets, still celebrating a cooler-than-forecast US inflation reading, cheered good news coming out of China.The FTSE 100 index opened up 21.84 points, 0.3%, at 7,397.18. The mid-cap FTSE 250 was up 218.48 points, or 1.1%, at 19,595.72, and the AIM All-Share was up 4.90 points, 0.6%, at 846.47.The Cboe UK 100 was up

Burger King's UK operation is set to join the London stock market, according to reports. Private equity firm Bridgepoint (BPT) has been the master franchisee for Burger King UK since 2018 but is now believed to have appointed advisers with a view to floating the business on the London Stock Exchange with a £600 million valuation during the first half of 2022.The master franchise for Burger King i

The dust may be settling for now on the recent unrest in Kazakhstan, but the ructions are still being felt in the markets.Prices of oil and uranium, of which Kazakhstan is a major producer, moved higher amid the disruption. The country is a key centre for bitcoin mining and concerns over the violence helped contribute to volatility in the cryptocurrency, which recently hit a four-month low.Several

For a business involved in the tricky task of selling newspapers in what is certainly a dwindling market, readers may be surprised to know that media group Reach (RCH) has seen its share price rise eightfold in the past 12 months.Key to its success has been strong growth in its digital interests and a resurgence in the advertising market.Reach is a news and lifestyle-focused content company, drivi

Video games developer Sumo (SUMO:AIM) delivered better than expected growth in sales and profits for the year to 31 December 2020.However, the shares dropped 2% to 354.9p after more than doubling over the last year and reflecting a shift in investors' focus from lockdown winners to reopening beneficiaries.Revenues grew 40.7% to £68.9 million last year, of which roughly a quarter was generated org

Coats (COA) 84.4pGain to date: 9.2%Original entry point: Buy at 77.3p, 20 December 2018Sometimes price isn't everything when selling assets. That is certainly the case with threads expert Coats (COA) whose disposal of its North America Crafts business for a mere $37m (or 0.2 times revenue) may initially look a poor deal.In reality selling the business for any price is strategically sound. It has b

A disappointing trading update (2 Jul) and the sacking of CEO Jas Bagniewski have turned premium memory foam mattresses seller Eve Sleep (EVE:AIM) from a dreamy growth stock into a near-term nightmare, judging by the share price reaction.Weaker consumer spending and management missteps were blamed for slower growth, but investors also need to factor in hot competition from e-commerce mattress riva

Caspian Sunrise (CASP:AIM) 9.2pLoss to date: -4.7% Original entry point: Buy at 9.5p, 30 March 2017Mixed drilling results and a continuing wait for the Kazakh authorities to sign off on a key transaction with private company Baverstock are putting Caspian Sunrise (CASP:AIM) on the back foot.The latest work on its BNG asset showed two of the six horizons targeted by the well are not considered wort

The FTSE 100 is flat at 7,297.40 suggesting centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron's resounding victory against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election had largely been priced in by the market.Mining stocks, which have a significant weighting in the index, are under pressure after uninspiring export numbers from China.British gas owner Centrica (CNA) slumps 1.1% to 196.5p

Now is an opportune time to invest in the newly-renamed Caspian Sunrise (CASP:AIM). An imminent deal will give it full control of the highly-prospective BNG asset in Kazakhstan.Don't be put off by the new corporate name sounding like a garishly-coloured cocktail. The company previously known as Roxi Petroleum looks really interesting if you have an appetite for higher-risk stocks.It has already fo

MARKET CAP £1bn and aboveANGLO AMERICAN +287%Few people would have predicted a year ago that 2016's best large cap performers on the stock market would be mining stocks. Fast forward a year and the evidence is clear - eight of the top 10 top risers are commodity producers.Anglo American (AAL) was one of the most heavily-shorted stocks in 2015 amid concerns about its huge debt pile and poor busine

Industrial threads manufacturer Coats (COA) could be on its way back to the big league as the business, previously one of the 30 largest London-listed companies, secures a deal on historic pension liabilities.Coats, one of the few survivors of the Financial Times' original 1935 FT30 stock index, agreed to make an upfront payment of £256m to its pension funds and £14.5m a year until 2028 to settl

The oil price is surging higher on new rumours of coordinated action to address volatility but analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoA Merrill Lynch) reckon a wave of positive supply surprises could put an end to the rally in the medium-term.Venezualan president Nicolas Maduro is on record as saying OPEC and non-OPEC producers are close to an output deal to stabilise oil prices sending Bren

Shares in London open flat at 6,896 with miners making the early running ahead of a quiet day of trading with the US offline because of a Labour Day public holiday.A speech by Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda overnight is the main talking point going into today's session as the central bank chief talked up the potential for more unconventional monetary policy if the country fails to hit infl

Investment funds enable you to hold a mix of assets, spread risk and hand over stock picking to an experienced fund manager, but with over 3,000 funds available on the UK's major investment platforms choosing between them can be mind-boggling.We've come up with a list of the top 10 factors you should consider when deciding which funds are most suitable for you.1. Your risk profileBefore you make a

International ground engineer Keller (KLR) looks decidedly cheap in light of an ongoing US recovery, a pick-up in tendering activity and progress on a number of delayed contracts.All of this bodes well for new chief executive Alain Michaelis as he proposes a strategy of 'evolution rather than revolution' at the groundworks specialist.Keller's first-half results (3 Aug) were largely in line with ex

JD Wetherspoon (JDW) falls 2.1% to 794.5p on a 0.9% dropin pre-tax profit to £37.5 million in the 26 weeks to 25 January due to increased competition from supermarkets and higher pay and bonuses from pub staff. Like-for-like sales in the first six weeks of the second half have slowed to 1.6% which could drag on margins. Chairman Tim Martin says the strong second half of last financial year will b