President Donald Trump's tariffs on solar-panel imports to the U.S. are a swipe at an industry that drew in $161 billion of investment globally last year and is dominated by companies in China.Read full newsRead More
Voters think a special prosecutor is needed to see if the nation's top cops have been playing politics.Read full newsRead More
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This morning's collapse in the dollar - the biggest daily drop since March 2017 - has extended the 2018 demise to 3.2%, the worst start to a year since 1987.Read full newsRead More
Mr. Brett Heath reportsMETALLA REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF FISCAL 2018 Metalla Royalty and Streaming Ltd. has released its financial results for the second quarter of 2018. For complete details of the financial statements and accompanying management's discussion and analysis for the six months ended Nov. 30, 2017, please see the company's filings on SEDAR or the company's w...Read More
After API reported a surprise crude build overnight, all eyes are on the DOE data this morning which showed a smaller than expected crude draw (-1.07mm vs 2.32mm exp) but still a draw (for the 10th week in a row) compared to API's build.Read full newsRead More
Eureka Resources Inc. (TSXV: EUK) ('Eureka' or the 'Company') announced today that is has closed the second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement of common shares previously announced in press releases dated November 27, 2017, December 29, 2017 and January 18, 2018 (the 'Offering').Read full newsRead More
After November's modest profit warning, investors in staffing conglomerate Empresaria Group plc (LON:EMR) might have been apprehensive ahead of today's trading update.In the end, the statement was full of reassuring stuff, like: "record profit, in line with market expectations" and "an improved performance from our businesses in the USA in the second half", not to mention "the business in the Midd...Read More
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LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The field of prospective bidders for ScotiaMocatta, the metals trading arm of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, has narrowed to two, three banking and industry sources said on Wednesday.The two - Goldman Sachs Group and Citi - are undertaking due diligence checks, the sources said.The sources said Japanese trading house Sumitomo and Australian bank ANZ (Australia and New Zea...Read More
ML Gold (TSXV:MLG) CEO Andrew Bowering and President Adrian Smith enumerate the reasons why investors should be looking at the Stars Project.Read full newsRead More
Macarthur Minerals Limited (TSXV:MMS) (the "Company" or "Macarthur Minerals") is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Haythorpe as Technical Adviser to support the development of the Company's hard rock lithium and gold projects in Western Australia and lithium brine project in Nevada, USA.Read full newsRead More
Paris La D?(C)fense, January 24, 2018 - Today, copper is at the core of a series of initiatives that are driving the world's sustainable growth. In addition to being a key component in many electrical applications including turbines, renewable power generators, inverters and transformers, copper remains the critical raw material for efficient and reliable cable technologies essential for the futu...Read More
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - K+S Potash Canada GP (KSPC) is honoured to be named one of Saskatchewan's Top Employers for the fifth year in a row. This designation follows KSPC being named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2018 in November."K+S Potash Canada is honoured to be recognized as one of the Top Employers both provincially and nationally," said Dr. Ulrich Lamp, President and CEO of KSPC....Read More
The takeover triangle between Sky PLC (LON:SKY), Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is likely to be in focus once again when Sky reports its second quarter update on Thursday.The Competition and Markets Authority provisionally rejected Fox's ?11.7bn takeover bid for the UK broadcaster on Tuesday, saying the Murdochs would have too much control o...Read More
Toronto, Ontario-(Newsfile Corp. - January 24, 2018) - McLaren Resources Inc. (CSE: MCL) (OTC: MLRNF) (FSE: 3ML) ("McLaren" / the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company plans to establish a new subsidiary corporation to develop a blockchain platform for mining industry information using a distributed ledger system for the transfer of data, documentation and related information. Mining...Read More
Michael Rosenberg, non-executive chairman at Starcom Plc (LON:STAR), speaks to Proactive's Andrew Scott following the release of their trading update for the year to the end of December 2017.Rosenberg says they're expecting turnover to be at least $5.5mln.He adds that discussions are ongoing concerning further orders this year with the major European Industrial group they announced an initial cont...Read More
Ian Pearson, chairman of EQTEC Plc (LON:EQT) caught up with Proactive's Andrew Scott to update on their pipeline of projects in the UK and Croatia following the deal last year between EQTEC and EQTEC Iberia.''We've got a proven model which works, we've got patented technology and some world-class engineering skills ... and partnerships with contractors that can deliver the projects that I think th...Read More
Kevin Van Wouw, Cradle Arc PLC's (LON:CRA) chief executive, tells Proactive that production at the Botswana-based copper mine will be 12,000 tonnes per year with an upgrade programme to increase this to 20,000tpa.Copper prices are also rising and the miner will take advantage of this to build the resources at Mowana.in Zambia, the Matala gold project is ready to begin development and Cradle...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Gold is going digital.Blockchain technology may help keep track of the roughly $200 billion of the precious metal dug from remote mines, traded by middlemen and melted down by recyclers that's sold each year to buyers scattered around the world.The London Bullion Market Association, which oversees the world's biggest spot gold market, will seek proposals including the use of blockch...Read More