U.S. MARKETS February 14-18
U.S. stock markets overall proved remarkably resilient in the Feb. 14-18 trading week, posting their third straight weekly advance.
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TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE February 14-18
The S&P-TSX Venture composite index made respectable gains in the Feb. 14-18 week, up 66.12 points to close at 2,423.68. Volume averaged 202 million shares traded daily, while 143 companies hit 52-week highs and 37 reached new lows.
toronto stock exchange February 14-18
Looking only at the TSX composite index, the recession would appear to be miles away.
Sherritt supports blindness prevention in Madagascar
Sherritt International (s-t) has donated $32,000 to Seva Canada, to help the charity restore sight and prevent blindness for people in Madagascar.
Letter to the editor: How business really gets done in the DRC
Regarding the article “African Copperbelt: still risky after all these years” (T.N.M., Feb. 7-13/11), the problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have not yet begun.
Ernst & Young: Strong growth expected for 2011
The following is an excerpt from Ernst & Young’s annual mining and metals transactions report, Ungeared for Growth. For the full report visit: www.ey.com.
Gold demand trends for 2010, expectations for 2011
The World Gold Council has released the following summary of factors that drove gold demand in 2010, and expectations for 2011. The full Gold Demand Trends report for 2010 can be found at www.gold.org.
RBC Capital initiates coverage of Trelawney
Analysts Stephen Walker and Richard Bishop of RBC Capital Markets estimate that when Trelawney Mining and Exploration (trr-v) releases its initial resource estimate in the first or second quarter of this year, the junior gold explorer will have…
South African miners fall behind
Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.
Entre Gold is ‘sitting pretty’
Entrée Gold (etg-t, egi-x) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential that exists for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (ivn-t, ivn-n) or Rio Tinto (rio-n, rio-l), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues…
Spotlight on vanadium
Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metal’s unique attribute of fitting in with two future…
UBS Research raises long-term metal prices
Rising capex, operating expenses and currencies have driven UBS Investment Research to raise its long-term metal price forecasts for copper, zinc, nickel and lead.