Stocks in London were in the red during midday trade on Friday, with investors fixed on this afternoon's US nonfarm payrolls data.The FTSE 100 index was down 30.44 points, or 0.4%, at 8,211.04. The FTSE 250 was down 136.32 points, or 0.7%, at 20,626.66, and the AIM All-Share was down 11.51 points, or 1.5%, at 747.61.The Cboe UK 100 was down 0.5% at 821.21, the Cboe UK 250 was down 0.8% at 18,167.1

Fuel tech play Quadrise Fuels (QFI:AIM) is a step closer to achieving commercial revenues from its patented MSAR fuel.The £103 million cap is up 8.5% to 12.75p as it confirms a MSAR unit will be installed at Spanish multinational oil and gas firm CEPSA's refinery near Gibraltar.This will allow fuel to be produced for a final seaborne trial in the first quarter of 2016 which, in turn, should lead

FTSE indices raced higher in early deals on Wednesday after positive sessions on Wall Street overnight and Asia this morning, while key European bourses leap. Blue-chip financials, leisure and retail stocks are enjoying heady gains. Shortly after the open, FTSE 100 is up 50-odd points, or 0.85%, at 6,190, while midcaps make similar gains. But Small cap stocks fail to match the progress of their la

The UK stock market rebound in early trade Friday after two days of declines, with mining and oil shares leading recovering previous losses. The benchmark FTSE 100 adds 30 points, or about 0.3%, to 4% at 6,710 in early deals.Mining peers such as Anglo American (AAL), BHP Billiton (BLT), Glencore (GLEN), Rio Tinto (RIO) and Antofagasta (ANTO) all head higher on Friday morning, rebounding after some

Tracsis US expansionTransport software specialist Tracsis (TRCS:AIM) has extended its US remote condition monitoring pilot scheme. The US rail infrastructure runs at around 140,000 track miles, about seven-times the length of the UK's, and analysts speculate that this could be worth an average £3.5 million a year to Tracsis down the line. (SFr)Quintain's Wembley wayInterims from Quintain Estates