Economy

You’re hot then you’re cold! Are financings warming up?

If you needed any more evidence that the first three quarters of 2012 were dreadful for junior public companies, TMX Group today published financing statistics that review September 2012, but also year-to-date results for 2011 and 2012. The results are clear.  Read more

rI at the close, May 03, 2012

Toronto’s main stock index took a major hammering today with its biggest setback in 2 months. The TSX S&P composite index closed down 1.76% or 215.22 points to 12,014.90 on continued weak jobs and manufacturing data from the US, as well as pervasive bad Euronews.
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Exclusive: Nuclear power still a contender

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Rob Chang is an equity research analyst covering the metals and mining sector at Versant Partners. He has extensive financial market experience dating back to 1995 which has included roles such as being a member of a five-person team running a multi-strategy hedge fund, a base metals researcher at a large Canadian bank, a portfolio manager of resource funds/director of research at a boutique investment management company with $3 billion in assets, and as an equity analyst covering the global mining sector at an independent investment bank. Rob has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and holds a Chartered Investment Manager (CIM®) designation.

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Exclusive: Copper, tin and zinc to benefit from strong fundamentals

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Copper, alongside most other base metals, put up a lackluster performance in 2011 with the red metal ending the year down 21% at $7600 per tonne; however, many analysts are anticipating a recovery in the base metals complex, including copper, in 2012. 

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With global economic upheaval, an historic rise in precious metals. A conversation with CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian

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Jeffrey M. Christian is the Managing Director and founder of CPM Group. Under his direction the company has become one of the world’s foremost authorities on the markets for precious and other metals, foreign exchange markets and commodities derivatives. Jeff has written and spoken extensively about precious metals and commodities markets, as well as world financial and economic conditions. He has been involved in much of the pioneering work applying economic analysis and econometrics to commodities markets, as well as efforts to improve the quality of commodities market research. Mr. Christian created CPM Group in June 1986, when he and his associates within the Commodities Research Group in the Goldman, Sachs Investment Research Department left that company as a unit to set up an independent research company.

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