The Hybridan team casts an eye over updates from Avanti Communications, Nostra Terra Oil & Gas, Synairgen and many more in the latest small cap round-up.
Corporate news falls thick and fast on Thursday, with updates from BG Group, Rolls-Royce, Shire and Diageo, while there's also an MPC meeting for investors to digest.
London's benchmark share index endured an unsteady midweek despite strength among banking and mining stocks, as a resolution to the Greek debt woes remained elusive.
Shares in Reckitt Benckiser moved higher as markets responded to its announcement that it had exceeded full-year targets for 2011 and posted a strategy to continue outperformance into 2012.
The media sector saw conflicting share price reaction reactions as Daily Mail & General Trust warned of a fall in advertising revenues, while Virgin Media appeased investors with the announcement of a share buyback.
Mining giant BHP Billiton posted a drop in its attributable profits for the first time in two years, but highlighted stronger growth in the US and Japan.
Headlines warn of a Chinese "hard landing". Don't buy it. China has every incentive to stoke growth in 2012 - which should boost Chinese stocks nicely, says Ken Fisher.
If both the perma-bears and perma-bulls are wrong in their immovable convictions about the long-term global investment outlook, then 2012 may require a more agile beast and possibly one with both claws and hooves.
Travel group Thomas Cook said it had managed to hold on to market share despite tough trading conditions, rebuffing comments by rival TUI Travel which has said it is benefiting from its rival's difficulties.
A busy midweek on the corporate calendar brings updates from Reckitt Benckiser, Thomas Cook and Supergroup, among others. See what else is poised to catch investors' attention...
Justin Modray reassures an investor with a large sum of money in one place and explains how to ensure your funds are fully protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
London's leading share index was mired in the red throughout much of Tuesday, but recovered most of its lost ground towards the close amid the deafening silence from Greece.
The merger of Glencore International and Xstrata was dealt a blow from the outset on Tuesday as shareholders rebelled against the terms of the £57 billion deal.
Oil and gas news came thick and fast on Tuesday with Solo Oil, Mediterranean Oil & Gas, Leni Gas & Oil and New World Oil and Gas all updating investors.
Companies raising funds through initial public offerings give investors a way to get in on the ground floor of a growth story but, as Heather Connon shows, recent new issues have provided a more cautionary tale.
Oil giant BP announced a 14% rise in its quarterly dividend and an underlying replacement cost profit that beat rival Shell for the first time in a year, as it published its 2011 final results.
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