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Risers & Fallers: Alt. Asset Opps, Chaarat, Imagination Tech, SyQic, VOG, XP Power

Published: 15:30 23 Jun 2016 BST

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Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 3.15pm.

RISERS

Alternative Asset Opps PCC Ltd (LON:TLI), up 7.8%. The insurance investment firm is exploring the possibility of a sale of its portfolio.

Victoria Oil & Gas plc (LON:VOG), up 5.5%. The company has promoted Ahmet Dik to the role of chief executive.

Imagination Technologies Group PLC (LON:IMG), up 4.4%. You know it is a slow news day when the appointment of a company secretary generates this level of interest. Guy Millward, chief financial officer, has taken on the role in addition to his current duties.

FALLERS

Chaarat Gold Holdings (LON:CGH), down 3.8%. The company said the JORC-compliant resource of its gold project in the Kyrgyz Republic has increased 15% to just over 7mln ounces of the yellow metal.

XP Power Ltd (LON:XPP), down 3.7%. Aberdeen Asset Managers has trimmed its stake from above 10% to 9.97%.

SyQic PLC (LON:SYQ), down 3.3%. Liew Tze Min’s stake in the video services outfit has been reduced from more than 5% to zero. On the plus side, Ng Seik Loong’s stake has gone up from nil to above 4%.


Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 12.30pm.

RISERS

Smith (DS) PLC (LON:SMDS), up 6.3%. Full-year numbers were slightly ahead of expectations.

Image Scan Holdings Plc (LON:IGE), up 5.9%. The specialist supplier of X-ray screening systems to the security and industrial inspection markets has signed a distribution agreement for X-ray mail scanning systems with Todd Research, a leading manufacturer in the market.

Cobham PLC (LON:COB), up 4.5%. Cobham Aerospace Communications has been awarded a contract by Airbus to supply its new Inmarsat SB200 Evolution service (Class 4) Safety System known as the AVIATOR 200S and 700S for the Single Aisle & Long Range aircraft families.

FALLERS

Glenwick PLC (LON:GWIK), down 32%. Booth & Lindsay Holdings has slashed its stake from more than 5% to less than 3%.

Central Rand Gold Limited (LON:CRND), down 4%. Bergen Asset Management has cut its stake from 4.66% to less than 3%.

Thor Mining PLC (LON:THR), down 2.0%. The Australian tungsten gold explorer and developer said all resolutions were duly passed without amendment at today’s AGM.


Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 9.30am.

RISERS

Clontarf Energy PLC (LON:CLON), up 21%. Yesterday’s news from Ghana continues to drive the share price higher. The Ghanaian Ministry of Petroleum is available for negotiations on Clontarf's proposals for amended coordinates of the Tano Basin block that the company originally applied for in 2008.

Aureus Mining Inc (LON:AUE), up 9.7%. Aureus has received the sign-off from Liberia’s Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy for the restart of work at the New Liberty gold processing plant.

Future PLC (LON:FUTR), up 7.7%. The international media group and leading digital business is to acquire Imagine Publishing for £14.2m, satisfied through the issue of shares.

FALLERS

Stadium Group plc (LON:SDM), down 26%. The loss of one of the tech firm’s main customers means full year results will likely come up short of market expectations, although it does still expect to make a profit.

Debenhams PLC (LON:DEB), down 2.4%. Yesterday’s disappointing results continue to weigh on the share price. Deutsche Bank has trimmed its price target to 80p from 85p.

Onzima Ventures PLC (LON:ONZ), down 1.5%. The investment company said 4.05mln warrants had been converted into shares at 0.7p a throw.

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