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What on earth is going on with Centamin Egypt?

This mornings RNS beggar belief - Suspension of operations Centamin advises that it has received an illegal retrospective claim from…

Daily snippet re Ceres Power

Regular readers of this blog will know we got into a spat with one of the lowest forms of life…

bumi – 2 quotes for “Mr Market” to consider…

“The Bakries said in a statement that Mr. Rothschild’s proposal was “unworkable,” given that Mr. Tan’s and Mr. Roeslani had…

Market news round up, upgrades & downgrades courtesy of Cantor Index

13 Dec 2012 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is called to open down around 10 points this morning    …

Heavy take up of Lonmin rights. Looks like it could be “the squeeze is on… and it’s on the street” part 2!

UPDATE - Lonmin confirms that Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Hsbc Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Standard Bank Plc have procured…

Buffett resorts to $1.2 billion buy back after acquisition deals prove either somwhat elusive or too expensive

News out today that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has spent $1.2 billion buying back 9,200 of its class A shares…

zak mirs weekend missive – expletives, Mr Sants and HMV!

Hector’s House  At the time the Libor scandal was announced in the summer, I could not believe that Barclays (BARC)…

BUMI – ANNOUNCEMENT JUST OUT. LET BATTLE COMMENCE!

Seems Ol Natty is playing the Bakries and Tan at their own game it seems with a proposal that buys…

Ceres Power – has somebody been shorting the open offer stock and about to get their b*lls squeezed??!!

Again, even with the naysayers of Ceres still calling for the death knell to be sounded on the stock, the…

Has the SEC finally caught up with SAC CAPITAL’S Steve Cohen?

Steve Cohen  Achieving so called “alpha” in asset trading is a rather difficult task. Only a select few asset managers…