TD Customers Delighted by Xcite Energy / Trading activity up week on week as oil and financials account for over 85% of top ten buys and sells

LONDON, ENGLAND -- (Marketwire) -- 07/08/11 -- Darren Hepworth, Trading and Customer Services Director, TD Waterhouse comments: "Trading among TD customers increased by nearly 15% on last week, with oil explorer Xcite Energy (XEL) taking first place on the buys and Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) completing a fourth week at the summit of the sells table. The banking giant outsold fellow financial, Barclays (BARC), by 2:1, as the FTSE 100 rallied in the week ending Tuesday, 5 July, climbing back over the 6,000 mark."

The Top 10 Retail Investor Buys and Sells for week ended 5th July 2011(1)

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        TOP TEN RETAILER BUYS                  TOP TEN RETAILER SELLS
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This week      Company      Last week  This week      Company      Last week
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    1    XCITE ENERGY LTD       4          1    LLOYDS BANKING GP      1
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    2    LLOYDS BANKING GP      1          2    XCITE ENERGY LTD       8
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    3    ROYAL BK SCOT GRP      3          3    BARCLAYS               5
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    4    BARCLAYS               2          4    ROYAL BK SCOT GRP      4
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    5    PREMIER FOODS          -          5    GULF KEYSTONE PETR     6
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    6    RANGE RESOURCES        5          6    BP                     -
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    7    GULF KEYSTONE PETR     6          7    XSTRATA PLC            -
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    8    CHARIOT OIL & GAS      8          8    RANGE RESOURCES        3
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    9    SOUND OIL              -          9    ANTOFAGASTA            -
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    10   YELL GROUP             -          10   AVIVA                  -
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Darren Hepworth continues: "Xcite Energy leapfrogged last week's top three buys - Lloyds, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) - rising from fourth to first place in the table. The oil explorer accounted for over a quarter of all top ten buys as the Treasury said that it would increase the level of tax support for North Sea oil explorers on Tuesday (5 July). Xcite's share price reacted positively to the news, reaching a high of 247p the same day, having closed at 173p on Monday.

"TD customers worked up an appetite for Premier Foods (PFD) this week, possibly hungry for a bargain as the company took fifth place in the top ten buys table. The pricing row that saw Tesco (TSCO) delist a quarter of its products has now been resolved, but Premier was forced to issue a shock profit warning on Thursday (30 June) after admitting the dispute had cost GBP 10m. The company warned half-year profits were likely to be between GBP 65m and GBP 70m, compared with GBP 94m in 2010, saying it had also been hit by higher commodity prices and a tough consumer environment. Premier's share price reached 25p on Thursday (30 June), before it dropped to a low of 17p the next day.

"Elsewhere in the buys table Yell Group (YELL) was a new entrant in 10th place as it named Richard Hanscott as its new UK chief last Wednesday (29 June). Meanwhile, new entrants to the sells table included two miners - Xstrata (XTA) taking seventh place and Chilean copper miner, Antofagasta (ANTO), taking ninth. Xstrata said on Friday (1 July) that it was confident it would hit its 2011 copper output target, with production improving in the second quarter compared to the first when it was hindered by heavy rain. Meanwhile, Antofagasta's CEO, Jean Paul Luksic, announced there was huge demand for metals from China and other emerging markets investing in infrastructure and urbanisation."

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Notes to editors

Footnotes

1: The Top Ten 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 Waterhouse customers, observed during the
period stated.

2: Source: Compeer based on daily average retail trades for TD Waterhouse
including its white label partners, as at May 2011.

3: TD Waterhouse trading rates:

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                      Frequent trader
                Applicable after 15+ trades
    Platform            per quarter                     Standard
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     Online         GBP 8.95 flat rate            GBP 12.50 flat rate
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   Telephone      The appropriate Online rate plus an additional GBP 30 is
                              payable on all Telephone Trades
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  Certificated  The appropriate Online or Telephone rate plus an additional
                        GBP 40 is payable on all Certificated Trades
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