Market Information
- Weather Lottery places shares
Shares in online gaming and lottery company The Weather Lottery (TWL) have risen more than six-fold in the last year and the company took advantage of the share price strength on Friday to raise £160,000 through a placing of 53.33m shares at 0.3p per share.
Find out more>> - F&C gears up
Investment trust titan Foreign and Colonial (F&C) took a step back in the first half of 2010, though it outperformed its benchmark index.
Find out more>> - Mali discovery cheers Randgold boss
Shares in Randgold Resources were shining after the Africa-focused gold miner's chief executive Mark Bristow said its recent discovery of a gold deposit at Gounkoto in western Mali confirms the region's potential for further finds of this size.
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Market Perspective
2010 Investment Outlook
How have events unfolded relative to our 2010 Investment Outlook?
Growth will disappoint as austerity across most of the global economy starts to bite.
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FX and Interest Rate Monthly - August 2010
European bank stress tests give euro a short-term boost.
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