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Small caps: Quayle Munro, NetPlayTV

Fri, 23rd Apr 2010 07:59

Merchant bank Quayle Munro will top market expectations this year after its advisory arm continued to trade well in the second half of the year."The company now reports that the advisory business continues to trade well, as a result of which underlying profits for the full year are likely to exceed market expectations," it said in a brief statement.Interactive gaming group NetPlayTV will be a launch partner on ITV1's new teleshopping trial window 'The Zone'. NetPlayTV has entered into a six month "teleshopping" airtime trial agreement with ITV to broadcast fully interactive transactional TV gaming formats on ITV1 starting during May 2010. A bingo TV show within 'The Zone' will feature quick fire keno and bingo rounds. NetPlayTV will also broadcast its existing Roulette Nation interactive gameshow in an additional 30 minute segment.Shares in Irish zinc explorer Connemara jumped after drilling at its Stonepark project in zinc provided further confirmation of a high grade zinc discovery.'Exploration will continue to outline the extent of this zone and will try to find others like it,' the company said.Investment company Brainspark has pumped £0.14m into Indian Restaurants Group (IRG) in return for a 29.9% stake in the AIM-listed restaurant firm Brainspark is paying the equivalent of 2.5p in cash per IRG share. Haresh Kanabar is director of both IRG and Brainspark but holds no shares in either.Eastern European Property Fund will be seeking approval at its next annual general meeting (AGM) to change its investing policy to allow a greater focus on an Istanbul-based portfolio. The company will also seek approval for the use of any funds raised from property disposals to be optionally used to buy back shares. It is anticipated that, subject to sufficient liquidity in the shares, the board would commence a buyback of shares if the current 56.6% discount of share price to net asset value persists.Leed Petroleum has confirmed that it has been awarded the Grand Isle block 96 lease in the Central Gulf of Mexico Minerals Management Services (MMS) Lease Sale 213, having received all necessary MMS approvals.The AIM-listed oil and gas exploration and production company bid $427,699 for the block which is situated next to its Grand Isle 96 and 100 blocks.Leed will own a 100% working interest and a 79.75 % net revenue interest in the block. The lease will run for an initial five year term.
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LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK government has raised a further GBP4.20 billion from its second sale of Lloyds Banking Group PLC shares, meaning it has now recouped GBP7.41 billion of the roughly GBP21 million that taxpayers injected into the bank during the financial crisis.<

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26 Mar 2014 11:30

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Standard Life Leads FTSE 100 Risers

LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Wednesday.

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FTSE 100 - WINNERS

Standard Life, up 5.2%. The company has agreed to buy Ignis Asset Mana

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26 Mar 2014 10:57

Leed Resources Loss Narrows, Announces Spending Reduction Targets

LONDON (Alliance News) - Leed Resources PLC Wednesday said its pretax loss narrowed in its first half, announced spending reduction targets, and said it plans to shift investment focus. The natural resources investment company, which is yet to produce any revenues, narrowed its pretax loss

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3 Mar 2014 13:43

REPEAT: UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Markets Jolted By Ukraine Crisis

LONDON (Alliance News) - Stocks have tumbled across the world, while gold and oil prices have jumped sharply, after Russia moved over the weekend to take control of the Crimea, prompting fears that Ukraine could end up going to war with its bigger neighbour.

The oil price has hit a

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3 Mar 2014 13:40

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Markets Jolted By Ukraine Crisis

LONDON (Alliance News) - Stock have tumbled across the world, while gold and oil prices have jumped sharply, after Russia moved over the weekend to take control of the Crimea, prompting fears that Ukraine could end up going to war with its bigger neighbour.

The oil price has hit a 2

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3 Mar 2014 11:49

UK WINNERS & LOSERS: Gold Miners Benefit As Gold Price Rises

LONDON (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices midday Monday.

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Increasing geopolitical tension following Russia's decision to mobilize its troops in the Crimea region of Ukraine over the weekend has p

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Leed Resources Slides As Directors Cancel All Outstanding Share Options

LONDON (Alliance News) - Leed Resources PLC saw its shares fall sharply Monday after it said its directors had agreed to cancel all their outstanding share options, part of its efforts to turnaround the business. In December, the company had reported a GBP1.3 million loss for its last finan

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27 Nov 2013 11:30

Leed Resources Writes Down Full Investment In Troubled Manas Coal

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24 Jan 2012 11:22

Viridas flogs Leed Petroleum stake

Viridas, the natural resource investment firm, has decided the time is right to cash in on its investment in fellow investor in natural resources, Leed Petroleum. The company made just short of £2.9m after selling 592.7m Leed shares at 0.48p per share. Following this sale, Viridas will continue to

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Leed Petroleum jumps after coking coal acquisition

Shares in Leed Petroleum, the AIM-listed natural resources investment company, jumped by 20% on Monday after the acquisition of a 17.5% stake in Kyrgyz Republic-focused coking coal firm Manas Coal. "The investment in Manas represents an opportunity to buy into a prospectively high value coal projec

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22 Feb 2011 17:00

London close: Rally falls short as Libya casts shadow

Strong consumer confidence figures in the US sparked an impressive rally from the top share index this afternoon following earlier gloom over the Libyan turmoil and the higher oil price, but worries re-emerged and the FTSE 100 finished below 6,000. BHP Billiton is one of those that has limped into

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22 Feb 2011 14:12

London afternoon: Modest rally continues

Shares continued to pare the morning's losses over the lunch time trading session, and from a position at the mid-morning stage where only five FTSE 100 constituents were in positive territory, by 2pm that number had grown to around 20. BHP Billiton is one of those that has limped into the black. T

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22 Feb 2011 10:36

Leed approaches unsatisfactory

AIM-quoted Leed Petroleum says that there are a number of parties interested in buying some or all of its principle oil and gas assets but none of the proposals has been good enough to put the company on a more secure financial footing. The approaches came about after Macquarie Tristone was appoin

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11 Jan 2011 16:51

London close: Strong gains for FTSE 100

Share prices edged back from earlier highs ahead of the close, but still finished with good gains as fears over European sovereign debt contagion recede in the wake of a show of support for eurozone bond issues from Japan. It has been a good day for banks, with Societe Generale issuing a bullish no

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