May 1, 2011 True North Gems is pleased to announce the completion of the second tranche of its $3.4 million private placement True North Gems Inc. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:TGX) announces that it has completed the second tranche of its previously announced and oversubscribed non-brokered private placement. The second closing is for…
April 29, 2011 Caterpillar Surprises With Massive Profit Gain Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) reported Friday a surprising five-fold jump in first quarter profits, reaching an all-time quarterly record as the company benefits from […]
April 29, 2011 Today in Commodities: Tipping Point We feel that some commodity prices are getting overextended and very close to their tipping pint. Far from an ultimate top but […]
April 28, 2011 Sherritt’s Q1 earnings up 116% to $63.6 million Sherritt's Q1 earnings rose 116% over the same quarter a year ago. The company reported net earnings on Thursday of $63.6 million or 22 cents a share. A year ago,…
April 27, 2011 A longer-term view of inflation: industrial metals vs. gold I found an interesting dataset at the IMF of commodity prices going back to 1980. What makes it interesting is to look at the longer-term price trends of some of…
April 27, 2011 Commodities: No bubble here With commodity prices up so much over the past several years, you can forgive long-term value investors for giving them a miss. Who wants to risk exposure to another asset…
April 27, 2011 Today in Commodities: Status quo from Fed Nothing new to report from Uncle Ben and his cronies but at least there was more talk of inflation with rising commodity […]
April 26, 2011 First Nickel provides update on Lockerby restart First Nickel Inc. (“First Nickel” or the “Company”) (TSX:FNI) is pleased to provide an update on its Lockerby Depth Project and its […]
April 25, 2011 Crowflight’s Bucko Lake mine resumes operations: BIV A nickel mine in northern Manitoba will start producing again after a 6-month suspension of operations due to a dispute over contractors, […]
April 18, 2011 Is commodities boom nearing its end? The commodity bull has shown little sign of running out of steam - until now. Prices began to stumble as soon as a note from Goldman Sachs, the American banking…
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