Main share price risers and fallers at 4.15pm
RISERS
Alba Minerals (LON:ALBA) up 33% to 0.58p. Horse Hill consortium members in demand again.
Plethora (LON:PLE) up 12% to 3.50p. Peel Hunt issued an optimistic broker note driving up shares.
TyraTech (LON:TYRU) up 8% to 3.25p. Signed a distribution agreement in the US with major retailer Rite Aid.
FALLERS
Evocutis (LON:EVO) down 17% to 0.10p. Issued 500mln new shares in a placing at 0.07p to raise £350,000.
BHP Billiton (LON:BLT) down 6% to 746.9p. Mining titan cuts half-year dividend by 74% to 16 cents as write-offs send it US$5.7bn into the red.
Drax (LON:DRX) down 4.5% to 246.4p. Lower full year profits and mixed outlook statement.
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Main share price risers and fallers at 1.45pm
RISERS
Meggitt (LON:MGGT) up 11% to 429p. More job cuts but dividend rises and revenues increased in 2015. Board said divi hike reflects confidence.
Ladbrokes (LON:LAD) up 6% to 129.7p. Revenue from the Digital division rose 12.9% to £242.8mln in 2015 from £215.1mln in 2014, comfortably outstripping the 2.0% top-line growth seen by the UK retail shops.
John Wood (LON:WG. up 8% to 629p. Sir Ian Wood, the former chief executive of Wood Group, said the industry should recover within the next five years. Wood Group posted decent figures with underlying earnings matching expectations.
FALLERS
DotDigital (LON:DOTD) down 6% to 45.5p. Mild profit taking after solid interims where profits rose to £3.3mln from £2.53mln.
GKN (LON:GKN) down 3% to 280p. GKN said pre-tax profit on a management basis came in at £603mln against £601mln a year ago on a 2% increase in sales.
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Main share price risers and fallers at 9.45am
RISERS
Regency Mines (LON:RGM) up 40% to 0.875p. Acquisition of 5% stake in Horse Hill oil development near Gatwick is completed.
Image Scan (LON:IGE) up 22% to 2.44p. Awarded £1mln in new orders to add to existing £600,000 order book. Multi-unit orders for portable x-ray machines from two Asian customers.
COMS (LON:COMS) up 13% to 1.86p. Main division Redstone wins contract to fit telecoms infrastructure for nearly one million square feet of office space in the city of London. The contract is for the UK HQ of one of Redstone's existing clients.
FALLERS
Stanley Gibbons (LON:SGI) down 32% to 43.5p. Loss warning of between £1-2mln as collectibles market struggles and £10mln funding.
Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) down 5% to 413p. Under pressure after results from showed sharply rising bad debts and losses.