Gulf Keystone, the Kurdistan oil explorer, has raised $200 million (£127.2 million) through a placing of new shares to speed up development of the huge finds it has made in the autonomous region of Iraq... more
"Who could be interested in Regus?" That was the question on the lips of almost every trader in the City, as shares in the serviced office provider rocketed... more
Another day, another slump in Ocado's shares. The online grocer, which City wags are calling "the shopping basket case", hit yet another record low today... more
Oil explorer Sterling Energy has said it is disappointed that the deeper parts of a well in the Kurdistan region of Iraq don't flow gas at commercial rates, adding that it would test other parts of the well... more
Those betting on big oil and gas finds for Sterling Energy and Faroe Petroleum were wincing today, as a double dose of disappointment left the prospectors the City's worse performers by a comfortable margin... more
UK oil explorer Heritage Oil announces a $100 million share buyback, after a halving in its share price since January and as the explorer faces a $313 million lawsuit from former partner Tullow Oil... more
Market round-up: You might have thought that discovering the biggest gas field in Iraq in more than 30 years would be a fillip to any energy explorer's shares. Not, alas, for Heritage Oil... more
Heritage Oil discovers the biggest gas field in Iraq for more than 30 years, but its shares fall 17% or 74.4p to 362.2p as hopes it would contain over a billion barrels of oil are dashed... more
Market round-up: A gloomy verdict on the prospects for copper stocks and a rising dollar pushes the mining titans to the top of the blue-chip loser list ... more
The claim made by BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg in presenting its results that the oil company believes it was not grossly negligent in the Gulf of Mexico disaster is intriguing... more
Three Turkish oil executives are fined more than £1 million for market abuse, the largest punishment dished out by the Financial Services Authority for insider trading... more
Shares on the London stock market surged to their highest level in 10 months amid signs that the worst of the banking crisis may be over and that even the global economy was starting to look in better shape... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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