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It has been only 18 days since ADVFN published “The Obamacare Effect Starts U.S. Merger Frenzy” on 06 July, in which we reported that U.S.-based healthcare insurer, Aetna (NYSE:AET), announced that it would be acquiring all outstanding shares in Humana (NYSE:HUM). At that time,  the New York Times and others had forecasted that that acquisition would be merely the first ripple...

“Nobody can predict the future. A Harvard PhD and a high school dropout have equal skills at prophecy.” – James Altucher It’s no longer a secret that Forex market is the biggest and the fastest-growing market in the world. It’s also not a secret that majority of Forex traders end up sustaining negativity, simply because […]

Result of Open Offer Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, announced on 6 July 2015 that it had raised £1.4 million by the issue of 20,000,000 New Ordinary Shares pursuant to a Firm Placing and 2,630,000 New Ordinary […]

Appointment of Interim CEO FinnAust Mining plc, the AIM listed exploration company with a multi-project, copper, zinc and nickel portfolio in Finland and Austria, has announced the appointment of Roderick McIllree as its non-Board interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McIllree is a graduate of Curtin University’s Kalgoorlie School of Mines, holds a Bachelor of Science […]

Manaila mine: fulfilment of conditions precedent Vast Resources plc, the AIM listed resource and development company, is pleased to announce that all the conditions precedent under the sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of a 50.1 per cent. interest in Sinarom Mining Group srl, the owner of the 1.8Mt polymetallic Manaila mine located in […]

Namib Lead Zinc Mine Bankability Strengthened Significantly following completion of further Metallurgical Testwork North River Resources has announced that, following supplementary metallurgical testwork, confidence in the planned ore processing solution for the Namib Lead Zinc Project in Namibia has been improved significantly. Highlights: · A critical milestone as North River moves towards...

Top Holdings Include IntraOp Medical, Pivotal, Turn, QMAT, and Wrightspeed Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVC), a publicly-traded venture capital fund that invests in technology and cleantech companies, disclosed today that its preliminary NAV as of June 30, 2015 was $24.54 per share. The Fund also announced that its top five holdings as of that […]

Positive Results of Extended Well Test on Wressle Discovery, Onshore UK Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, is pleased to note today’s update from Egdon Resources on the on-going Extended Well Test at the Wressle-1 oil and gas […]

You’ve just got to know that something is terrible wrong when eight top executives quit a company and its share price goes up. That’s exactly what happened at Toshiba (TSE:6502) today. And, yes, there was something terribly wrong – $1.22 billion wrong. While Reuters called it Japan’s “biggest accounting scandal in years,” Fortune magazine called it […]

Yes, they are. Armco Metals Holdings, Inc.(NYSE MKT:AMCO), a distributor of imported metal ores and a steel recycler in China, today announced that its Armco Metals (Shanghai) Holding, Ltd. subsidiary is establishing an OTO (Online to Offline) platform for steel scrap business with business partners. The new operations will be conducted through, Shanghai Meng Yi […]