After all the problems that have gone in the past few years, you might be reticent to have anything to do with the banking industry. After all, it seems that the bosses still seem to manage to find large bonuses for themselves...

How to Spread Bet RBS Shares: Royal Bank of Scotland Group You may be interested in spread betting on the shares of RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Banks have been having a turbulent couple of years, and if you can stay on...

Royal Dutch Shell plc (RDSB), better known simply as Shell, is as most people know an oil and gas company, and a major player in the energy business. It is the fifth largest company in the world, and the second largest energy...

Unilever plc is a successful company, originally founded more than 100 years ago as Lever Bros. It has expanded over the years, mainly by acquisitions, and the big change to being called Unilever happened back in 1930. The...

Vodafone (VOD) is an international wireless phone company, and simply the largest in the world, when considered by market capitalization. It has interests in nearly sixty countries. The company is valued at around £87.6 billion...

Xstrata is a mining company first publically listed about ten years ago. It has a diversified range of markets, with copper being one of the major ones. However, it covers other commodities such as nickel, coal, zinc, vanadium...