Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 4pm
RISERS
Styles & Wood (LON:STY) up 37%. Investors were still buying in after the integrated property services firm reported a tripling of underlying profit before tax for 2014 on Friday.
ReNeuron (LON:RENE) up 12.2%. The stem cell specialist and Australia-based Benitec Biopharma are extending their research collaboration.
Cap-XX (LON:CPX) up 18.8%. Old Mutual took its stake in the company to above 7%.
FALLERS
Creightons (LON:CRL) down 15.4%. Some profit taking after the company reported growth in profit in its end of year results released Friday.
Rambler Metals & Minerals (LON:RMM) down 11.7%. The company said it is continuing to work towards reaching the lower end of its revised guidance, as it posted a lower pre-tax profit for its third quarter.
Gemfields (LON:GEM) down 6.6%. Brokers Numis and Peel Hunt both expressed disappointment with the result of its latest ruby auction.
Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 1.15pm.
RISERS
Goldplat (LON:GDP) up 24%. A belated pick up on the news that the gold recovery specialist is making progress in clearing the backlog of by-product material waiting to be processed, thus improving cash flow.
Lansdowne Oil & Gas (LON:LOGP) up 20%. The company has a 20% stake in the Midleton Prospect which Petronas unit Kinsale Energy has contracted the Ocean Guardian drilling rig to drill a well on.
FTSE 350: Spire Healthcare (LON:SPI) up 9.38%. South African investment house Remgro has agreed to pay £431mln for almost a third of the company, it said.
FALLERS
Xeros (LON:XTR) down 12.3%. No news from the company but bulletin boards were quick to assume a fundraising could be on the way.
Nimrod Sea Assets (LON:NSA) down 11.4%. After the market closed on Friday, the company said the has slowed its pace of investments, and also noted there have been delays in the income received from some of its investments.
FTSE 350: Allied Minds (LON:ALM) down 4.2%. The company said its joint venture with Bristol-Myers has entered a licensing agreement with Harvard University.
Below are some of the main news-driven share price changes at 9.30am.
RISERS
Savannah Resources (LON:SAV), up 80.7%. The company has unveiled plans to merge its heavy mineral sands assets in Mozambique with those of mining major Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) to create a world class project.
Imaginatik (LON:IMTK), up 45.7%. The self-styled full service innovation provider noted the rise in the company's share price last Friday and said that, while it was aware of reports that Quob Park Estates has been buying shares in the company, it has had no contact with the company.
Thorntons (LON:THT), up 42.2%. “With these offer terms, you are spoiling us,” might be the response of Thorntons shareholders after Italian chocolate giant Ferrero made an agreed bid of 145p cash per Thorntons share. The UK chocolatier's shares rose 42.5p to 144p.
LOSERS
Armstrong Ventures (LON:AVP), down 17.5%. The cash shell made a loss of £184,079 in 2014, versus a loss of £262.406 the year before, and is still struggling to find anything in the resources sector in Asia that it wants to invest in.
Afren (LON:AFR), down 10.4%. The company released a prospectus after the close of trading on Friday relating to its proposed restructuring and refinancing. The company intends to issue US$369mln of high yield notes, convert around US$234mln of existing notes and issue about US$75mln of new shares at a penny each; the shares will be available via an open offer to shareholders.
Richland Resources (LON:RLD), down 9.5%. The company has put back its first sale of sapphires from the Capricorn project in Queensland.