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Completion of Second Exploration Drill Hole African Potash, the AIM listed company focused on sub-Saharan potash assets, has announced the “successful completion and intersection of multiple potash seams” at its second exploration drill hole at its Lac Dinga Potash Project in the Republic of Congo. This latest drill hole was completed at one of two […]

Large Diamonds Recovered from Trial Mining at Baoulé Kimberlite, Guinea Stellar Diamonds plc, the London listed (LSE:STEL) diamond development company focused on West Africa, announces results from the trial mining production of the five hectare Baoulé kimberlite pipe in Guinea. Highlights: · 196 carats recovered to date from kimberlite ore at an average grade of […]

Update on Wressle-1 Well, onshore UK Europa Oil & Gas plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas exploration and development company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, has welcomed the announcement of Egdon Resources today confirming that detailed petrophysical and reservoir engineering evaluation on the Wressle-1 exploration well on the PEDL […]

Shares of William Hill plc (LSE:WMH) were down modestly in London today and were probably not influenced by the company’s third quarter results as much as the it would have liked them to be. In fact, the share price closed at 363.40 yesterday, gaining nearly ten points in early trading to open at 373.00 today. […]

The share price of IBM (NYSE:IBM) plummeted upon release of its third quarter results this morning. IBM closed at 182.05 on Friday, October 17th. The value of the company’s shares dropped in early trading to open today at 166.93. The share price has held fairly steady during the day with about an hour remaining. It […]

Yes, they are. Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE:NWL) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of bubba brands, inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of In Zone Holdings, Inc. A leading designer and marketer of durable beverage containers, bubba is expected to deliver over $50 million of net sales in 2014. The […]

Is there life on Aeroject? Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, recently received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to supply the thrusters that would help land the next rover on Mars after it is launched in 2020. Under a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy, Aerojet Rocketdyne also would supply the power […]

PPA signed to provide power to Cerro Bayo Gold and Silver mine, Chile Rame Energy plc, the international power generator and engineering company, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Seawind Holdings SpA, has signed a power purchase agreement with Compañia Minera Cerro Bayo Limitada to supply power to the isolated electrical grid system of […]

It was big news for some this morning that the Tesla share price (NASDAQ:TSLA) opened lower for the second day in a row. Personally, I find it bigger news that it is now almost 2:30 p.m. on the U.S. eastern seaboard and TSLA has already climbed back to 229.63, nearly to yesterday’s close of 229.70, […]

What is QE? Quantitative easing helped increase the flow of money supply into the equities markets by providing large financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote lending and liquidity, thus increasing a confidence level within the financial markets. Quantitative easing is generally applied when short-term interest rates are at or fast approaching zero. […]