Stock Investing Tips

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RBS LEADS THE FTSE CHARGE

The FTSE 100 Index remained near to its highest level since June 2008 on Friday as investors resisted the urge to take profits after a recent strong run.

The Federal Reserve's fresh stimulus for the US economy has heightened the appetite for risk and triggered a wave of buying across world markets.

The FTSE 100 jumped more than 100 points on Thursday and was close to its opening mark on Friday, down 7.2 points at 5855.6, despite uncertainty in the banking sector following updates from Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC.

MORRISONS IN THE BARGAIN BIN

A warning from Wm Morrison that shoppers are still hunting for bargains prompted a sell-off that wiped £348 million from the stock market value of the supermarket chain.

The Yorkshire-based grocer met expectations with a 1.3% rise in same-store sales in its third quarter to October 13.

This is below the stellar growth Morrison has recorded in previous years but the company said it viewed it as being in line with the market.

INVENSIS RAISES DIVIDEND

Shares in Invensys were up on the FTSE 100 after the engineering and IT company reported a rise in revenue in the half year period ended 30 September 2010.

The group said that its revenue increased nine per cent to £1.2 billion, thanks to good order book conversion.

Orders rose six per cent in the period to £1.1 billion, while the order book was flat at £2.2 billion, of which 46 per cent came from emerging markets.

FTSE PEAKS AT 2-YEAR HIGH

Firmer banks and mining stocks lifted Britain's top share index to its highest in more than two years on Thursday as a move by the U.S. Federal Reserve to buy assets boosted investor confidence in equities.

By 0906 GMT the FTSE 100 was up 101.94 points or 1.8 percent at 5,850.91, reaching its highest since June 2008 after it closed 0.2 percent lower on Wednesday.

BP CHOOSES GROWTH OVER DIVIDENDS

BP will likely pay a much smaller dividend and spend more on oil exploration as it remakes itself into a leaner, more growth-oriented company following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, its new chief executive said Tuesday.

CEO Bob Dudley's remarks came in an interview as BP raised its estimate of the spill's cost by $7.7 billion to nearly $40 billion, and posted a two-thirds decline in net profit for the third quarter, as the Deepwater Horizon disaster continued to haunt the company.

STAGECOACH ON THE UP

BUS and rail group Stagecoach said ticket sales rose across its bus and rail operations in the first half of its financial year and that it expects to meet its profit expectations for the full-year, boosted by sales of Grand National Hospitality Tickets.