U. S. Markets – DEC. 16-18
U. S. equity markets were up during the shortened Dec.16-18 trading session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 40 points, or 0.5%, to 8,605; the S&P 500 index added 17 points, or 1.9%, to 88…
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Toronto Stock Exchange – DEC. 16-18
The Dec. 16-18 trading session may have been short, but it was full of surprises. A technical glitch linked to data feeds closed the TSX all day on Wed. Dec. 17 — the same day the Organization of the…
Lme Warehouse Levels (December 29, 2008)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Dec. 16, 2008 (change from Dec. 9 in brackets):
Spot Prices (December 29, 2008)
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Exeter Advances Caspiche And Cerro Moro
SITE VISIT Copiapo, Chile — The road from the city of Copiapo to Exeter Resource’s (XRC-V, XRA-x) Caspiche gold-copper project in the Chilean Andes snakes its way through some of…
Northgate More Than Doubles Young-Davidson Gold Resource
Vancouver — Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-x) has been rewarded for its drilling efforts at its Young-Davidson project in Ontario with a new resource estimate that pushes the gold count past 3 millio…
Daily Metal Prices (December 29, 2008)
Date Dec. 15 Dec. 12 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 1120/1180 1140/1180 1140/1210 1110.50/1170 1105…
North American Stock Exchange Indices (December 29, 2008)
52-week Date Dec. 15 Dec. 12 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 716.81 718.54 713.44 705.54 686.02 2886.39 678.62 TSX Composite 8461.83 8515.45 8391.90 8634.00 …
Tsx Short Positions (December 29, 2008)
Short positions outstanding at Dec. 15/08 (with changes from Nov. 30/08).
Nautilus Delays Seafloor Mine Development
The turmoil in the world markets has prompted Nautilus Minerals (NUS-T, NUS-l) to delay construction of the mining system for its Solwara 1 seafloor copper-gold-zinc-silver massive sulphide deposit, o…
Dividends (December 29, 2008)
Note: Alcoa will pay its quarterly div of US$0.9375 for US$3.75 cmltv pr sh on Jan 1, rec Dec 12. Company Div. Pay Record ($) Date Date Iamgold 0.06* Jan…
Lending Rates (December 29, 2008)
as of 9 a. m. ET. Dec. 19, 2008 (%) Bank of Canada 2.50 Target overnight rate 1.50 Canadian Prime 4.00 U. S. Discount Primary 1.25 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime …