TD Direct Investing names the UK's most traded UK-listed companies for the morning of Thursday 19 January 2012.

Top ten trades
Thursday 19 January 2012 (until noon)
Source: TD Direct Investing

TD Direct Investing View:

'Today’s buy / sell ratio = (approx.) 1 : 1.4.
'Premier Foods leapt to the top of the buys and sells tables today following yesterday’s announcement that it would cut 600 jobs.  The food producer behind Bisto, Mr Kipling, Ambrosia and Sharwoods has been battling with debt after years of expansion.  The job cuts represent 5% of the workforce and are expected to save £40 million a year by 2013.
'Aim listed Mediterranean Oil moved into both top ten tables with the news this morning that it had transferred the gas sales contract for its Guendalina gas field to Energetic SpA, an Italian utility firm.  The field contains independently certified 2P gas reserves of 22 billion cubic feet and is expected to net revenues of around €12 million a year.  The oil and gas minnow also stated on Monday that it had appointed oil industry veteran Keith Clarke as non-executive chairman.  Mr Henry is currently chairman of Regal Petroleum, senior independent director of Sterling Energy and a non executive director of HPR Holdings Ltd.'

BUY

1. Tesco, 12.5 per cent
2. Premier Foods, 10.7 per cent
3. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 8.7 per cent
4. Lloyds Banking, 7.9 per cent
5. Royal Bank of Scotland, 7.7 per cent
6. Essar Energy, 5.7 per cent
7. Xcite Energy, 4.3 per cent
8. Mediterranean Oil, 4.2 per cent
9=Solo Oil, 3.8 per cent
9=Berkeley Mineral, 3.8 per cent

SELL

1. Barclays, 21.3 per cent
2. Lloyds Banking, 21.2 per cent
\3. Royal Bank of Scotland, 14.7 per cent
4. Premier Foods, 5.1 per cent
5. Aviva, 3.9 per cent
6. Man Group, 3.6 per cent
7. Mediterranean Oil, 3.3 per cent
8. Gulf Keystone Petroleum, 2.9 per cent
9. HSBC Holdings, 2.8 per cent
10=Dixons Retail, 2.6 per cent
10=Asos, 2.6 per cent

The Top Twenty Buys and Sells should not be taken as a recommendation to buy or sell any particular bond or stock, and it is not intended to offer any form of advice. Instead it is simply an indication of the general buying and selling trends amongst some TD Direct Investing customers, observed during the period stated.