By Emma Cox Despite dismal nickel prices as of late, there’s no stopping nickel exploration and development companies on all sides of the globe from pushing forward with their projects. Australian company Poseidon Nickel has announced that it has upgraded its indicated resources at its Lake Johnston project in Western Australia by 50 percent as…
By Amy McLellan As its results make clear, Azonto Petroleum is focused on one goal in 2015 and that’s seeing its Gazelle project in Cote d’Ivoire through to FID. The company, which is listed on ASX and AIM, has cut headcount, slashed G&A and pared down its portfolio to ensure it has the funding to…
The Markets Activity in the UK services sector accelerated during March according to the latest PMI survey data, which suggested the sector experienced its quickest rate of expansion since August. Markit, which carries out the industrial surveys, said that results for the first three months indicated UK GDP growth of 0.7%, which would be a…
Planting the Seeds The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is often seen as one of the worst ever crises faced by the US economy. The capitalisation of the S&P 500 was halved, the unemployment rate was doubled, and the Federal Reserve had to go out of bounds in rescuing the economy to avoid the collapse of…
By Amy McLellan Oil prices may be low and rig counts falling but Rystad Energy, the Norwegian upstream consultancy, sees no near-term slump in US oil production – but does see growth topping out in Q3. Analysts at the Oslo-based consultancy estimate US annual oil production will peak at 9.7 million barrels per day by…
As my contribution to this first edition of Master Investor, I have decided to clarify some points concerning regulation of AIM. This is partly because it is not understood and partly because it is complex and unusual. AIM is a division or franchise (as the LSE likes to promote it) of the London Stock Exchange.…
In the UK, the Budget took centre stage and garnered all the front page headlines, but in reality this was a mere sideshow to last month’s US FOMC statement. The US dollar plunged on the back of the statement, propelling most other currencies higher. Why? The Federal Reserve removed the word “patient” from its statement…
This is the sixth in a series of educational articles on the best habits of winning traders and investors, the most common mistakes traders make and the best ways to avoid them. Today, we are looking at refusing to crystallize trading losses, the irreparable damage this can cause to your trading account (let alone to…
Why would you invest in the FTSE 100 right now? A question that almost every trader and investor in the UK has in mind is quite simply “where’s the FTSE 100 headed a few weeks down the road?” I know this because from all the people I meet on various occasions this is the most…
Recommendation Summary BG Group has gone from being a part of nationalised British Gas, to being an international oil & gas player – one that is approaching the top tier. However, it has been evident over the past couple of years that the journey has become somewhat rocky – a position not helped by the…
