This chart is circulating on Twitter and its pretty interesting comparing the long term performance of the investment greats.

Its been interesting keeping an eye on Blinkx’s share price since the profits warning on July 2nd. After the shares fell over 50% on the day to 32p, they continued their slide on July 3rd, finally bottoming at 27p and then bouncing to today’s 35p. Still a 45% decline in the last week is pretty shocking.

On June 26th, Hurricane Energy, the North Sea focused fractured basement reservoir oil and gas explorer produced excellent results from its Lancaster well with the flow tests significantly exceeding expectations. The shares subsequently spiked from 28p to the mid-40p range on the day and then went as high as 54p in the next couple of days.

Falklands driller announced a deal to acquire Mediterranean Oil and Gas (MOG) back in late April. MOG today announced news from a wildcat well offshore Malta and as expected it proved to be a duster given its low chance of success.

The Dow Jones Industrials are up 80 points to 17,056 and the S&P 500 is adding 8 points to 1,983 – new all time records for the US market and meaning that the Dow has crossed the 17,000 mark for the first time ever.

Shares in Blinkx, the Aim-listed online video company and bulletin board favourite, are down 45% to 36p this morning after a profits warning, valuing the company at £144 million. The shares have traded as high as 230p towards the end of 2013. A shocker indeed!

Back in late 2012, the shares of online grocer Ocado were trading at an all time low of 56p as shorters targeted the company in a big way after profitability continued to be elusive after the company launched selling Waitrose products. Morrisons’ market share fell to 10.9% from 11.7% last year, while Tesco’s market share dropped to 28.9% from 30.3%.

The end of last week proved to be rather a profitable period of shareholders in Gulf Keystone Petroleum with the shares rising 15% on Friday and 27% for the week.

With the end of the second quarter of 2014 looming large, which markets have performed best so far? The S&;P 500 is the standout performer year to date with a strong second quarter (April-June) after a wobble back in February brought on by the Ukraine crisis

I did a write up on North sea oil explorer Hurricane Energy just over a week ago and the high expectations from this company were delivered in full today with a hugely positive RNS regarding their Lancaster well. The Lancaster Field, which is 100 per cent. owned by Hurricane, has estimated 2C Contingent Resources of 207 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe).