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During the last few days of each year Minews keeps a sharp eye out to see if any companies land a bit of bad news on the market in the hope that no one will notice. This year Weatherley International came out with a press release
Full story...Why did Dave Paxton leave a perfectly good job at Hichens Harrison to join a company that’s currently rehabiliating an ageing Fijian gold mine? One reason among many might be the 50 million options at 2p per share that he was
Full story...Perhaps it’s the sun which sets Australians apart from their British cousins, both in pallor and confidence. While many Brits can only see gloom and doom as they struggle through a freezing northern winter, Aussies are frolicking
Full story...If we learnt one thing from 2008 it was that making forecasts is a mug’s game. Even the most bearish bears did not predict the mayhem that infected the financial markets in 2008 and clobbered the base metals in the process. On
Full story...“We’re quietly confident that there’s a world out there that still needs metals”. So says Les Emery, managing director of Marengo Mining. Let’s hope he’s right, for his sake as well as ours, because at the Yandera
Full story...2008 was an extraordinary year in London’s stock market for a whole host of reasons, but possibly the overwhelming impression the year left us with was the speed and intensity with which the global economy went from boom to bust.
Full story...Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.
CC. The Canadian Markets ended 2008 and started 2009 in rebound mode after receiving a pummeling during the tax
Full story...When Marc Bolland took over as chief executive of Morrisons Supermarkets last year he had a couple of handicaps. First he had no experience of retailing to offer, and second he was a Dutchman. Not easy when running what had
Full story...The past year was a very nasty one for investors in general and resource players in particular. The Canadian Markets however started 2008 off in fine form with many commodity prices hitting historic highs but an abrupt drop in
Full story...A little bit of good news to end off 2008 … and we certainly all need some. AIM listd Zeehan Zinc has received the sum of just over £3 million from the Chinese company Creat Group, in accordance with a share subscription agreed
Full story...No-one ever doubted that West Wits Mining would find plenty of gold on its tenements near South Africa’s gold capital, Johannesburg. What is interesting is the speed at which the Australian-listed explorer is getting through its
Full story...It is very difficult to get in at the bottom of any market. The reasons are largely psychological as the wounds are still fresh from money lost in other investments and the old adage, “don’t throw good money after bad” comes to
Full story...A 21-day ultimatum has been issued to the Russian government to put up the Grib pipe in Arkhangelsk for development by a joint venture between De Beers and LUKoil; or else De Beers will walk out of Russian diamond mining for
Full story...The year 2008 will be remembered for many things. Even though it included some of the wildest gyration in base metal prices it is more likely that the year will be stand out for the collapse of the investment banking business
Full story...Minews. Good morning Australia, we didn’t expect to hear from you this week.
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