Rio Tinto (RIO) at 1724p, after the annual production figures. Could the market be considerably under-valuing Rio Tinto because it is too bearish about its cash position? I explain here why that may be the case. The Rio Tinto (RIO) share price (1724p last seen) gives a historic annual dividend yield of around 8.7% (at…
Current mid price: 9.0p Market Cap: £168m Possible yield: 9.0% If, in the present environment, we were to point to a producing gold miner paying a secure looking more 6%+ historic yield, with every prospect of useful medium-term capital appreciation and a higher yield, you might say “pull the other one”. But with UK-listed South…
“On a typical day, one billion people around the world eat chocolate” – in “A taste of the future”, KPMG June 2014 Financial news has recently been dominated by the epic crash that is haunting the oil market. What at first seemed like good news for consumers is now turning into a nightmare from which…
Uranium, as I point out in the upcoming magazine, looks to be a commodity that possibly will recover ahead of the rest. As it happens, Spanish uranium developer Berkeley Energia (BKY:AIM & ASX) (formerly known as Berkeley Resources) is about to come across private investors’ radars in a presentation this week. It has already flagged…
So all the while that lack of news has had investors muttering that it is about to go bust, Ncondezi Energy (AIM:NCCL) has been quietly progressing its negotiations with China’s SEPCO to build its 300MW power plant on its Tete coal field in Mozambique. A surprise RNS late afternoon yesterday (January 11th) spurred the shares…
Investors hoping that the 4.9% losses seen from the FTSE 100 in 2015 will be reversed quickly have been disappointed so far this year. The blue-chip index has fallen by over 300 points already as contagion from a stock market plunge in China has spread, caused by the ever present growth slowdown fears. In reaction,…
Mine Streamers: scooping off the cream – or has it gone sour? Last month I promised I would discuss streaming companies (and their siblings, royalty buyers). The genre is little known in the UK and only commenced in 2004 in Canada, with a large investment sector built up since then still concentrated there, and to a…
Armenian gold hopeful Lydian International (TSX:LYD), listed on TSX but having for some time promoted itself to UK investors via its Jersey registration (and ProActive Investors), is of interest for the funding package it has just announced for its Amulsar project, due to start construction in 2016. Any gold miner able to secure 100% funding…
It would seem that the Saudis want everyone to go bust in their attempt to tear down the shale oil revolution, only to push oil prices back up again in future. But do they still have control of this market? Judging by the persistent weakness observed in the market, it seems that everything is falling…
As I mentioned in the November magazine, with the outlook for other mining commodities cloudy and funding for their projects problematic (Paragon Diamonds is in trouble because finding funds has been more difficult than it thought – interested investors will find more up-to-date information on the BBs than we can provide here) it seems sensible…
