Stock prices were lower at midday Thursday in Europe, ahead of New York Stocks which are called to open mixed as markets remained cautious.The FTSE 100 index was down 80.43 points, 1.0%, at 8,086.45. The FTSE 250 was down 257.43 points, 1.3%, at 20,318.60, and the AIM All-Share was down 5.58 points, 0.7%, at 761.74.The Cboe UK 100 was down 0.9% at 807.71, the Cboe UK 250 was down 1.3% at 17,811.02

GCM Resources (GCM:AIM) has been trying for more than a decade to get a Bangladesh coal mine into production. It has faced considerable local opposition, but continued to persevere. The share price has risen 189% over the past week on a deal to work with a Chinese group to explore the potential for a coal-fired power plant. (DC)

A takeover offer has revived shares in fish-to-agriculture logistics group Lonrho (LONR), sending its shares up 88.3% to 9.79p. This is a reflection of the bid being priced at nearly double yesterday's closing share price (5.2p). Lonrho is being acquired by FS Africa - a new entity controlled by Rainer-Marc Frey, founder of investment firm Horizon21, and Swiss entrepreneur Thomas Schmidheiny. We h