Commodities

One of the key positive aspects of equity investment is that you can buy and sell stakes in small and larger companies, safe in the knowledge prospective and existing owners of a business are being treated equally.

JPMAM's Neil Gregson talks to Jenny Cosgrave about a frustrating year for commodities investors.

BP's shareholders have called for a cash payout to be made if the sale of its 50% stake in TNK-BP goes through, as talk it is poised to offload its holding imminently picks up.

Newton's Iain Stewart is finally reaping the rewards of a move into gold miners following a strong rally in recent weeks.

Tom Dobell, manager of the £7.7bn M&G Recovery fund, expects an uptick in M&A activity to rejuvenate performance in 2013 after a "tough" three years for the fund.

Oil prices dropped yesterday as economic data from China and Europe renewed concerns about a slowdown in global demand.

The price for gold bullion, measured in fine troy ounces, is fixed twice a day in London to allow market users to trade gold at a single level.

Sebastian Lyon has put more money behind unloved mining equities in his £2.2bn Trojan fund, after a prolonged period of underperformance from the sector.

The FTSE 100 gained more than 80 points in early trading while global markets leapt higher overnight, lifted by the Federal Reserve's latest round of quantitative easing.

BP has moved to offload a chunk of its oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico in a deal worth $5.5bn (£3.4bn), as the oil major continues to raise cash to cover the cost of the catastrophe in 2010.