Despite the UK lurching back into an economically destructive lockdown, London's FTSE 100 clawed back earlier losses to close 0.61% higher at 6,612.25 points on Tuesday.The blue chip benchmark's resilience reflected hopes for a swift vaccine rollout as well as a boost to sentiment from chancellor Rishi Sunak's £4.6 billion relief package for the UK retail and hospitality sectors.Shares in...

Shares in Eden Research (EDEN:AIM) ripen 4.2% to 12.5p at the open as the breakthrough biopesticides play announces new distribution agreements with commercial partner Sipcam, an Italian multinational specialising in making and marketing agrochemicals.Covering additional territories, these new agreements demonstrate further fruitful progress with Eden's first product, Mevalone, and...

Under-the-radar Eden Research (EDEN:AIM), whose backers include Livingbridge UK Micro Cap Fund (GB00BV9FYS80) and Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), looks an attractive proposition.A provider of breakthrough 'natural microencapsulation technologies' and agrochemicals, the AIM company is shifting from a development to a lucrative commercialisation phase, with strong growth set to continue in 2018...

UK Shares quickly move into the green in early trade on Monday, bucking negative predictions for a slow start after the terror attacks in Paris over the weekend. The FTSE 100 index rallies around 26 points, or about 0.4%, higher to 6,140, stubbornly refusing to match the early falls on many of Europe's leading markets.Miners lead the way with Anglo American (AAL) heading the charge of four...

Green investing does not have a good billing in the UK and barely features on the radars of institutional investors. This is not a matter of prejudice and two good reasons explain the indifference. First, there is only one company in the FTSE All-Share Alternative Energy sector and with a market value of £140 million industrial filtration expert Porvair (PRV) has absolutely no bearing on the...

London's FTSE 100 edges up 11.14 points to 6,568.51 on Tuesday as ongoing uncertainty over Federal Reserve monetary policy and concerns over the US debt ceiling continue to dominate sentiment. One stand-out performer is business publisher and events group Euromoney Institutional Investor (ERM), which reverses some of its losses since the start of September as an upbeat pre-close trading update...

The best way to visualise the South East, as it is seen by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) when it classifies companies, is to imagine a band outside the M25 running from the M40 in the west to the Thames at Dartford in the east. This comes across in the scatter plot of South East companies shown in the map (see page 29).Better known as the country's biggest car park, Shares has run the...