Over the past decade, we’ve seen a push for increased rigor and disclosure in capital markets. This is a natural response to the chaos in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Regulators have responded to investor concerns by…
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, May 20, 2013 Precious MetalsPrice…
Germany-based fertilizer giant K+S AG (SDF-F) has signed a co-operation agreement with Sasakawa Africa Association in an effort to help farmers in Uganda.
Canadians trying to make sense of what’s going on in the upper echelons of the newly merged Glencore Xstrata are getting a feel of what it must have been like to be an ancient Greek peasant looking up at his distant panoply of…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 3.3% — or 32.05 points during the period — with falling precious metal prices and a weaker Canadian dollar weighing on the market. Upbeat signs from the U.S. provided a late boost…
U.S. markets continued their upward march, marking their fourth straight week of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 235.91 points, or 1.56%, to close the week at 15,354.40, while the S&P 500 Index rose 33.77 points, or 2.07%,…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rode an up-and-down period and came out ahead, as it gained 41 points to 12,613.12, largely on sentiment that the U.S. economy is recovering.
The $15.1-billion takeover last year of oilsands producer Nexen by state-owned China National Offshore Oil Co., or CNOOC (CEO-N), tested Canadians’ willingness to allow foreign state-controlled firms full access to the country’s…
VANCOUVER — Pipelines have become a hot topic across Canada. The debate over TransCanada’s (TRP-T, TRP-N) Keystone XL continues to rage as decision day inches nearer. The idea to reverse Enbridge’s (ENB-T, ENB-N) Line 9 to…
VANCOUVER — Titanium Corp. (TIC-V) sees an opportunity in the waste being created by the big bitumen business in northeastern Alberta. With backing from the federal and provincial governments, the Edmonton-based junior is aiming to…
Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) has outlined stronger economics for its prized Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea in a feasibility study that outshines last year’s prefeasibility study.
There are an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil in Alberta’s oilsands, but getting them all out is proving to be a costly venture. As with the metal mining industry, mining for oil has been subjected to steep cost inflation over the…
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