Global News

Next month, February 2014, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) will celebrate its tenth birthday and the second anniversary of filing its S1 with the SEC. The company was only eight years old when it starting trading on the NASDAQ on 18 May in what turned out to be one of the most publicized first-day fiascoes in financial news […]

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Alecto Minerals (LSE:ALO), an AIM quoted mining exploration company focussed on West and East Africa, has commenced work at the company’s 945.5 sq km Wayu Boda Gold Project, located on the Adola Greenstone belt in southern Ethiopia. The project is held under joint venture with Centamin plc, which is required to fund US$1.8 million to […]

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration and development company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, has received notification pursuant to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules that, following the completion of the Open Offer and the resultant increase in the Company’s total […]

Mariana Resources, an AIM quoted exploration and development company focused in Peru and southern Argentina, have issued positive results from its scout drilling programme at its 102 sq km Condor de Oro copper-gold-molybdenum project, located along the prolific Cordillera del Condor gold-copper belt in Northern Peru. The latest drill hole CDOYE-5 has yielded the strongest […]

North River has announced that it has raised approximately £1,025,000 through a conditional placing of 170,833,333 new Ordinary Shares of £0.002 each at a price of 0.6 pence per Ordinary Share (the “Placing”). The Placing, which was conducted through Pareto Securities Limited, was over-subscribed. The net procceds of the Placing will be applied towards completion […]

Have you ever wondered why there are analysts and economists? The analysts are buried in the down and dirty, devilish details, whilst the economists step back and view things on a much broader scale. The analysts exist to drive investors crazy and the economists exist to help us not get caught up in the anxiety […]

Actually, the ride started last week when the FTSE 100 climbed to lofty heights, tantalizing investors with the possibility that the index would establish a new high. Then, just as it seemed possible, the FTSE plunged to it’s current level of 6578. It looks like we’ll have to start the ride over in order to […]

GSK’s share price drifted lower today, a 1.69% slide (28.00 pence) to 1624.50. Almost a year ago, 07 February 2013, ADVFN published a story entitled “GSK Betting on Robust R&D Pipeline.” The point of the story was that long-term investors in pharmaceutical companies, like GlaxoSmithKline (LSE:GSK) should keep their eyes more on their R&D Pipeline […]

Pearson plc (LSE:PSON) is getting pounded today on the London Exchange following issuance of its January Trading Report. Folks, it was not good news. Pearson shares closed yesterday at 1311.00 on the London Exchange. It’s share price is currently at 1192.00, down 9.08%. When a company has a market cap of £9.65 billion, that kind of […]