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20-04-2012
Miniature table-top war games firm Games Workshop said trading in the four months to the beginning of April has been broadly in line with the board's expectations.
02-04-2012
The North Falkland Basin oil explorer Desire Petroleum said it has sufficient funds to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future but not enough to drill more wells, as it announced a sharp reduction in annual losses.
21-02-2012
Shares in Desire Petroleum took a dive after the company said shareholders will have to wait a bit longer for the results of analysis of its prospects in the North Falkland Basin,
13-02-2012
Rioters set Athens ablaze last night as Greek MPs approved a harsh new austerity package aimed at keeping their country in the euro. Tens of thousands of demonstrators besieged Parliament while MPs neared the historic vote, which opens the way for a €1bn bailout by the EU and the IMF. Anarchists in crash helmets and black balaclavas smashed marble balustrades and threw rocks and petrol bombs at police. Riot officers responded with teargas and stun grenades as peaceful protesters fled. More than a dozen buildings, including the historic Attikon cinema and another cinema in a former Gestapo torture chamber, were set alight and battles between masked youths and police continued into the night, writes The Times.
13-12-2011
Rockhopper Exploration, the company which found oil off the north coast of the Falkland Islands, has seen its shares soar 9.3% this morning following the announcement of a successful well dig.
12-10-2011
Desire Petroleum, the exploration company wholly focused on the North Falkland Basin, has agreed the terms of a farm-out agreement.
12-09-2011
The top share index is stuck firmly in negative territory as worries over the Eurozone crisis and possible effects on global growth continue.
12-09-2011
Falkland Islands oil explorer Desire Petroleum has moved back into the black after benefiting from gains on foreign exchange, but investors were more concerned about the rapidly diminishing cash pile.
12-09-2011
Footsie has dived more than 100 points at the outset as the markets get to grips with the details of the Vickers report from the Independent Commission on Banking.
15-08-2011
Shares in Desire Petroleum jumped 13% on the news that there may be more oil than expected in one of its licences off the Falkland Islands.
31-05-2011
Stocks built on the strong gains they posted ahead of the long weekend, surpassing the 6,000 point mark but finishing slightly below that psychologically-important level.
31-05-2011
Optimism about a resolution to Greece's latest dire need for a bail-out is giving equities a boost today, providing some much needed focus on a day that is short of block-busting company news.
31-05-2011
Investors at Desire Petroleum were given a reason to buy after the company announced positive 3D seismic data from the East Flank Play Fairway.
18-04-2011
Having started the day with hopes of rising back above 6,000, the top share index hurtled in the opposite direction to fall below 5,900 after debt ratings firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) put the cat among the pigeons by downgrading the outlook for US sovereign debt.
18-04-2011
Falklands oil explorer Desire Petroleum crashed to a 52-week low after plugging and abandoning the 14/15-3 well on the Ninky prospect in the North Falkland basin.
18-04-2011
Bright spots are hard to find on the first trading days of the shortened week, and far from bursting through the 6,000 barrier Footsie heads at pace in the opposite direction.
04-04-2011
Desire Petroleum, the oil and gas explorer that has seen mixed results with its drilling in the Falklands, saw losses before tax narrow last year as administrative costs eased off.
04-01-2011
The top share index lost some if its strong early gains ahead of the close, but still finished above the psychologically important 6,000 point mark on a storming start to 2011.
04-01-2011
Bid speculation is adding froth to a London stock market already playing catch-up with European and US markets that posted strong gains yesterday.
04-01-2011
The top share index's storming start to 2011 continues, with the FTSE 100 now well clear of 6,000 points and sitting at levels not seen since the first half of 2008.
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