Shares in retail warehouse investment fund Tritax EuroBox (BOXE) added 2% to €1.23, pushing towards a new high, after the firm reported a significant gain on the sale of one of its Polish assets. The sale of the site in Lodz, to British company Savills Investment Management, is for €65.5 million or a yield of 4.95% compared with a purchase price of €55 million in April 2019 and a starting ...

UK stocks opened lower on Tuesday as Brexit talks seemed to flounder over fishing rights with just days to go before the end of the transition period and oil prices continued to slip on fears of lower demand. Brent crude oil futures dropped almost 2% to $49.90 per barrel while gold slipped to $1,875 per ounce. The pound regained some positive momentum, breaking back above $1.34 despite Brexit ...

Shares in alternative financing business Duke Royalty (DUKE:AIM) gained 2.6% to 30.78p after reporting a resilient first-half and re-instating a third-quarter dividend of 0.5p per share. Royalty finance is a £50 billion industry in North America but it remains relatively new in the UK. This possibly gives Duke an advantage as the only UK-quoted royalty company. It effectively provides ...

Shares in litigation finance provider Burford Capital (BUR:AIM) leapt 16% to 726p on Thursday, taking gains for the week to almost 23%, after the firm reported ‘significant realisations’ and cash receipts for the half-year to June. Burford-only realisations rose 40% to $478 million, well above market expectations, while group-wide realisations rose 32% to $820 million. Notably, there was ...

As a beginner investor, the most important things to understand are how to buy and sell shares, what can move a company’s share price and how and where to find investment ideas. But when you gain some investing experience, you may come across things called stock options and warrants, particularly if they are relevant to a company you own shares in. Mostly popular with financial ...

Many investors are well versed in the attractions of renewable energy as an investment theme, and retail fund flows into green energy and environmental funds continued unabated even during the market sell-off caused by the pandemic. The move to a zero-carbon future will increase the need for energy storage capacity, and one less well-researched area of the clean energy market is battery energy ...

Life science focused investment trust Syncona (SYNC) generated an excellent net asset value (NAV) total return of 37.9% for the year to 31 March 2019, building on the previous year’s impressive 18.7% advance. Following a share price drop from April’s 294p high point to 223p, this well-followed fund now trades at a more modest 4% premium to net asset value (NAV). This could interest ...

Burford Capital  (BUR:AIM) 859.96p Gain to date: 17.2% Previous Shares view: Original entry price: Buy at 734p Litigation finance provider Burford Capital (BUR:AIM) is cashed up having completed its third successful retail bond offer to raise £175m. The offer saw strong demand and was heavily oversubscribed. This injection of capital should help the company accelerate growth by investing ...

MARKET CAP £1bn and above ANGLO 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 ...

US stocks slumped to their longest losing streak since the financial crisis as markets brace for heightened volatility ahead of the US election on 8 November. The S&P 500 posted its eighth consecutive day of losses yesterday and the 'fear gauge' VIX volatility index spiked to 22, almost as high as the days after the UK voted to leave the EU. Shares in the FTSE 100 are down 0.8% at ...

Tungsten producer Premier African Minerals (PREM:AIM) says it may spin off its Zulu lithium project as a separately-listed business. The company has initiated a review of the project with a new drilling programme and appointment of natural resources entrepreneur David Lenigas who has been tasked with trying to find strategic investors and/or joint venture partners. The news sends Premier ...

AIM miners hot for lithium Small cap miners are cashing lithium projects to play the latest hot commodity. Ironridge Resources (IRR:AIM) has bought an exploration project in Ghana, saying global demand for the lithium is increasing at an 'unprecedented rate'. Kodal Minerals (KOD:AIM) has struck a deal for a second lithium exploration project in Mail. (DC)   Jackpotjoy IPO looms ...

The housebuilding sector is once again in focus as Berkeley (BKG) and Redrow (RDW) update on trading. Their mixed fortunes build on the conflicting messages recently coming out of the sector with McCarthy & Stone (MCS) having last week warned on a pullback in trading versus positive messages from other housebuilders. Berkeley says reservations were down 20% in August year-on-year reflecting ...

Bellzone Mining’s (BZM) decision to move ahead with revamping its Kalia project has worried investors amid concerns the project's economics don't stack up. The miner wants to produce ferronickel through the new project, despite nickel prices remaining low. Investors have jumped ship, dragging the share price down 29% to 0.22p. Bellzone is aiming to rework the former iron ore project ...

London shares are mixed in early trade on Wednesday with blue chips guiding higher but midcaps failing to make progress and smaller companies largely flat. Traders continue to cast wary glances towards the pricing of crude and safe-haven assets but many remain jittery about the global economy. Europe was up while Wall Street and Asia fell overnight. The benchmark FTSE 100 index nudges 12 ...

There is a theory that all IPOs are priced between 10% and 20% below their intrinsic value and the latest performance statistics back up this thinking. We calculate the average share price gain for all IPOs in 2015 is 11.4%. The best performer is Challenger Acquisitions (CHAL) with a 312.5% gain since floating in February. The worst is Gate Ventures where shareholders will have lost everything as ...

The City is back into overdrive with initial public offerings (IPOs) as the shackles of the general election are removed. Investment bankers had been quietly talking about a wealth of stock market flotations that were bubbling away in the background, but ultimately on ice until they knew who would be in power for the next five years in the UK. With a pro-equities election result, the starting gun ...

Where have all the miners gone, you may ask? Five years ago, the London stock market was flooded with exploration and production companies riding the commodities bull run. Fast forward to the present and there's a mere 177 miners left on AIM and the Main Market, according to data from ShareScope. Some of those aren't even miners, they're merely cash shells (aka failed miners) looking for an ...

Investor demand for yield has been a feature of the current low interest rate environment and product manufacturers of all varieties have been happy to serve up solutions. High yielding stock, bond and real estate portfolios have all been in demand. One such offer in the latter category is the ICG-Longbow Senior Secured Property Debt Investments (LBOW) investment company. The fund, which was ...

A better-than-expected economic study (25 Mar) on Horizonte Minerals’ (HZM:AIM) Araguaia nickel project in Brazil and more favourable nickel price outlook should drive a re-rating in the stock. The study is exactly what investors desire in today’s mining environment, since capital expenditure requirements are below previous estimates and the economics are improving. Horizonte may not have ...