Its been another rough day in the markets with the FTSE 100 falling as low as 6,070 earlier in the day before bouncing back to finish at 6,202, meaning that the index now yields around 3.5%.

With the price of oil dropping around 25% since and currently trading at $84 a barrel things are bleak for oil related shares. With Opec and notably Saudi Arabia apparently reluctant to cut production and focused on maintaining market share and the International Energy Agency cutting forecasts for global demand…

Nigeria focused oil and gas producer, Afren has dismissed its chief executive, Osman Shahenshah, and chief operating officer, Shahid Ullah and two associate directors, Iain Wright and Galib Virani for gross misconduct after receiving various unauthorised payments.

Shares in Quindell Plc (QPP) initially rose 7% today after a trading update for the third quarter of 2014 but are currently down 9%. Short seller Gotham city recently released a twitter tweet saying that…

After a benign few months on the global stock markets, it has proved to be the calm before the storm as volatility returned with a vengeance last week and the outlook for the coming week doesn’t look any more settled.

Those looking for a non-conventional investment opportunity or to use a non-traceable, anonymous currency were pretty excited by the bitcoin phenomenon, the digital cryptocurrency which came into existence in 2009.

Beleaguered Sierra Leone based iron ore mining company, London mining, issued a damning RNS this morning sending its shares down over 80% to 0.6p. The killer line was that “the Board believes that there will be little or no value remaining in the equity of the Company and the other listed securities of the Group”.

Oil and gas explorer, Cairn Energy, hasn’t been having much luck of late. With a tax dispute relating to its remaining interest in Rajasthan focused Cairn India hanging over the company preventing it from selling down its stake any further…

Gold is currently trading at $1,194 an ounce after falling as low as $1,183 in Asian trading as Friday’s strong non-farm payroll number from the US made the metal even less appealing in the face of potential Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

US unemployment fell below 6% for the first time since 2008 (a 0.1% drop) with 248,000 jobs created last month compared with expectations of 215-225,000 jobs.