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>>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>>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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