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Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets, commented in his Weekly Roundup to clients, US politicians have decided that the best thing for the nation is to allow its government to go into partial shutdown rather than back down on conflicting budget views surrounding a presidential policy aimed at making medical care affordable […]

I must confess that I have never tweeted (in any way, shape or form), nor have I ever used Twitter.  I’m not apologizing.  I’m just saying that I don’t see the necessity of having a Twitter account, although some of my clients are suggesting that I should open one.  Now I see that Twitter has […]

Sable Mining Africa (LSE:SBLM) has confirmed the issuance of an export decree for the Nimba Iron Ore Project in south-west Guinea , by the Government of the Republic of Guinea, authorising the Company to export iron ore through Liberia to the Port of Buchanan. The decree, the first to be issued in Guinea, will, together […]

It started out innocently enough as an entertaining way to post videos from posting popular music, snippets from TV shows, how-to demos, personal tirades, stupid human tricks, and a plethora of other item, both socially redeeming and some that indicate the need for social redemption.  Yesterday we saw an example of how powerful this social […]

Noricum Gold (LSE:NMG), an Austrian focused gold exploration and development company, has announced that it has raised £2 million (before expenses) by way of an oversubscribed placing of 200,000,000 new ordinary shares of no par value in the capital of the compmay, with new and existing shareholders in the Company at a price of 1 […]

Follows positive August results. Explorer-developer Premier African Minerals (LSE:PREM) has announced that it has amassed a multi-commodity suite of assets in Africa. In late August 2013, PREM released positive results from a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) and concept mining study on the flagship RHA tungsten (WO3) project in Zimbabwe. The PEA envisaged a six-year operation […]

Pound Sterling The Pound began the week softer against the Euro after Angela Merkel won a landslide victory in the German elections. The result was seen as a positive for stability in Europe and sent the Euro slightly higher against Sterling. Disappointing economic data releases for the UK and negative comments from a Bank of […]

A number of years ago I was privileged to work alongside a recently retired U.S. Army “Bird Colonel.”  Had he not retired, his next rank would have been Major General.  I consider him one of my mentors.  Perhaps the greatest lesson that he taught me was that, “You do not have to fight every battle. […]

Normally, I try to ignore rumors, but this one is simply too big to ignore.  The word on the street is that Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has entered into M&A talks with the world’s leading chip designer, the UK’s own ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM).  ARM’s share price has risen over the past week from 960.0 on 18 September […]

Pound Sterling While the Pound began the week trading in the region of multi-month highs against both the US Dollar and Euro, the British asset broadly softened on Thursday as an unexpected decline in UK retail sales dented investor confidence in the nation’s economic recovery. To ask a currency expert a question direct, click HERE […]