Global News

The usual, quiet, long Easter weekend has passed and the markets have opened to a roar from the pharmaceutical sector that one would expect to accompany the announcement of a new drug that both cures cancer and encourages erections that last more than four hours. Let’s identify the companies first, then try to sort it […]

US President Obama has done a super job. A super job of alienating just about every nation on the planet, including his own. Since early in his first administration he has apologized to the enemies of the West for past administrations and pandered to those whose plan is, and nearly always has been, to dethrone […]

On Thursday, 17 April, we ran a story about General Mills (NYSE:GIS), the tenth largest food manufacturer in the world. That story gave wide public exposure to the company’s new policy that, by a person indicating he “likes” their products (via social media or coupon usage, for instance), he may not file suit against General Mills […]

$14 billion and 70-million man-hours expended, 778 miles cleaned milestone marks major step toward honoring BP’s commitment to the Gulf The U.S. Coast Guard has ended patrols and operations on the final three shoreline miles in Louisiana, bringing to a close the extensive four-year active cleanup of the Gulf Coast following the Deepwater Horizon accident. […]

(AIM:DKL) DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of an established, vertically integrated palm oil project in Côte d’Ivoire, has provided an update on its operations at its recently commissioned 60 t/hr Crude Palm Oil extraction Mill, one of West Africa’s largest. Overview · The Mill became fully operational in March with the following key […]

LSE:AAZ Anglo Asian Mining plc, the AIM listed gold producer in Azerbaijan, has provided a production and operations update from its Gedabek gold/copper/silver mine and Gosha gold mining operation in western Azerbaijan for the three months to 31 March 2014. Overview: · Gold production at Gedabek for Q1 2014 totalled 11,312oz (8,597oz from the agitation […]

General Mills (NYSE:GIS) is one of the world’s ten largest food companies. Fast Company recently said, “Pressure from consumers and shareholders is causing many of the biggest food and beverage companies in the world to improve their social and environmental policies.” On April 2nd, General Mills took a major step toward addressing some of those […]

“It is not so important to be right, but how to make money when you are right.” – Ivan Hoff I remember what happened at one interesting trading conference I attended about 5 months ago. It was an interesting conference indeed. At one stage, the moderator showed us a EURUSD chart (whose dominant trend was […]

The share price of AIM-listed and Main Market-bound Quindell (LSE:QPP) gained 1.35% to close at 37.62 pence today, regaining some of the ground that it had lost since nearly breaking the 44.00 mark on April 7th for the second time this year. The release of Quindell’s Q1 Trading Statement was an obvious factor on the day. […]

Revenue £2.1m (H1 2013: £2.2m) Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings), an AIM listed oil and gas exploration and production company with a combination of producing, appraisal and exploration assets in Europe, announces its interim results for the six month period ended 31 January 2014. Highlights: * Béarn des Gaves permit onshore France renewed * Acquired […]