FTSE CLOSE: London stocks back in the red as US markets trades steeply lower
This is Money
Market talk of a possible credit downgrade for France added to the unease with bank shares under pressure all over Europe. The euro also suffered and fell to 1.139 against the pound, though sterling eased against the dollar to 1.612. …

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Afferro Mining, Aureus Mining and ZincOx all rate as 'buys', says Ambrian Partners
Proactive Investors UK
During the past five working days, the broker noted, across the 125 mining stocks on AIM the median share price decline has been 20 per cent. Yesterday's exercise was targeted at discovering which shares have been sold down more aggressively than this …

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Riots are the inevitable result of years of a me-first culture
Herald Scotland
As manufacturing declined as Britain's main source both of exports and job creation, the burgeoning financial sector gradually became our main source of overseas income, producing paper wealth trading in cash, utilities and stocks and shares but …

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Scottish stocks help Footsie surge
Scotsman
Banking shares had mixed fortunes following early falls as investors fretted about their exposure to indebted European economies and after heavy losses for counterparts in New York on Monday. Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland was among the …

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FTSE ends a rocky session with strong gains as miners rally
Stock Market Wire
StockMarketWire.com – END-OF-DAY REPORT: Headline shares ended a rocky session with strong gains, the main index having dipped under 5000 earlier in the day, with heavyweight miners underpinning gains and a strong US start lifting sentiment. …

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London midday: Stocks bounce back
ShareCast
The shares are sharply lower. Among smaller companies, shares in Rockhopper Exploration gushed higher after the Falkland Islands oil explorer reported results at the “upper end of expectations” from drilling of its third appraisal well at the Sea Lion …

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Expect casualties from resource sector M&A
Financial Times
Before the launch of the bid, shares in the Australian coal producer were down 32 per cent from a peak set in January. Rio Tinto is not alone in thinking about opportunistic M&A during the current sell off. “Anyone with a [strong enough] balance sheet …

Monday's most followed: Rockhopper Exploration, Chariot Oil & Gas, Solomon …
Proactive Investors UK
Shares in Rockhopper slipped 12 percent to 142.5 pence in early deals today, which was blamed on the generally weak sentiment in the markets in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US debt rating to AA-plus. Oil prices have fallen sharply as …

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London open: Volatile start for FTSE 100
ShareCast
LONDON (SHARECAST) – Stocks have recovered from earlier falls on what could be a jittery day following last week's slide, with falling mining shares signalling continued nervousness over global economic prospects. Mining giants such as Rio Tinto and …

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COMPANY SNAPSHOT: Rio Tinto, Xstrata, Range Resources, Chariot Oil & Gas, GGG …
Proactive Investors UK
Sector peer Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) said that it and Mitsubishi have made a proposal to acquire the rest of the shares in Coal and Allied for a total A$123.2 per share in cash. Rio Tinto, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, is Coal and Allied's largest …

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