Stress will kill you. Most people know this intuitively. Stress weakens your immune system. Stress allows your body to be more easily controlled by pathogens.A recent study compared two sets of mice. One set had a certain stress receptor cell, and one set did not. Normal mice exposed to stress had a higher rate of disease than mice exposed to stress who lacked the stress receptor cell. This held...Read More
Wayne Paterson, chief executive of Admedus Ltd (ASX:AHZ), spoke to Proactive's Andrew Scott following the release of their quarterly update.It's a big week for Admedus with the launch of both CardioCel in India and CardioCel 3D in North America.CardioCel is the company's flagship product and is becoming a surgeon-preferred biomaterial for heart valve repair surgeries. Meet Reward Minerals Lt...Read More
Gold in Africa is attracting attention. Here's a look at the companies that are currently mining gold in Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso.Read full newsRead More
Canuc Resources Corporation (TSXV: CDA)('Canuc' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that it has completed a vertical amalgamation (the 'Vertical Amalgamation') with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Santa Rosa Silver Mining Corporation, pursuant to subsection 177 of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario).Read full newsRead More
Minera Alamos Inc. ("Minera Alamos") (TSX VENTURE:MAI) and Corex Gold Corporation ("Corex") (TSX VENTURE:CGE) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement dated January 30, 2018 (the "Agreement") to combine the two companies, creating a well-funded, multi-asset, Mexican gold development company (the "Transaction").Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1336.80-$5.20Silver$17.11-$0.07XAU86.56-1.03%HUI194.03-0.89%GDM656.14-1.09%JSE Gold1239.40-60.77USD89.23-0.13Euro123.97+0.14Yen91.97+0.06Oil$64.50-$1.0610-Year2.724%+0.033T-Bond147.34375-0.78125Dow26076.89-1.37%Nasdaq7402.48-0.86%S&P2822.43-1.09% The Metals: Gold dropped $7.50 to $1334.50 in Asia before it bounced back to $1348.90 by a little after 9AM EST, but it then...Read More
- Property crisis in London as over half of 1,900 luxury apartments built 2017 fail to sell- London's still high priced property causes companies to locate offices elsewhere- At current rates, glut of London properties will take three years to sell- Leading London-based estate agents Foxtons' sees 42% drop in earnings, yoy- UK's largest estate agent issues second profit warning in three months-...Read More
Deutsche Bank and its associate group, UBS, HSBC etc have been fined by the CFTC for gold price manipulation. I am sure silver prices are being manipulated by a group of banks and hedge funds. Silver is undervalued. Long term industrial uses of silver will exceed production. Those who had invested in physical silver have lost all hope that silver prices can rise. Some of the silver investors are...Read More
U.S. regulators are scrutinizing one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges as questions mount over a digital token linked to its backers. This follows reports of the company severing its relationship with its auditor.Read full newsRead More
The top five resource companies to make the list were Amerigo Resources, Novo Resources, Excelsior Mining, Critical Elements and Corvus Gold.Read full newsRead More
FTSE 100 closes 1.09% lowerDow Jone and major US indices lagThree corporate giants team up to create own healthcare firmThe FTSE 100 took a beating to close 1.09% lower, or around 83 points, at 7,587.98, in tandem with the slide seen in other European markets.The footsie, which has been hitting record highs over the past weeks, hit a five week low, dragged lower by financials and the commodities,...Read More
London reached its annual limits on pollution less than a month into the year, which was actually an improvement on the air quality in 2017.Read full newsRead More
BofAML Bull & Bear indicator has given 11 sell signals since 2002; hit ratio = 11/11; average equity peak-to-trough drop following 3 months = 12%Read full newsRead More
Nigel Redwood, chief executive of Nasstar Plc (LON:NASA), caught up with Proactive's Andrew Scott to chat through the firm's 2017 trading update.Adjusted underlying earnings (EBITDA) for 2017 were slightly ahead of expectations while the cloud computing group's cash position improved substantially.Redwood says they ended the year with net cash of ?1.0mln, compared to net debt of ?2.8mln a year e...Read More
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) ('Stakeholder Gold' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that Anita Bailey has been appointed Corporate Secretary for the Company.Read full newsRead More
A quick look at the share price history of PCI-PAL PLC (LON:PCIP) - the stock has doubled in the past few months - would suggest that the secure payments provider was primed for a placing.And that's exactly what happened on Tuesday. PCI-PAL raised ?4.95mln from investors by issuing shares at 45p apiece - a 29.5% discount to the average mid-market closing price for the last 30 trading days.The cas...Read More
Cache Exploration Inc. (the 'Company', or 'Cache'), (TSX-V:CAY) is pleased to report that the Company has signed a Purchase Agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Deep Lake Cobalt Property, located near Saint John, New Brunswick.Read full newsRead More
The spate of Christmas trading updates from the retailers has dried up so attention switches to macroeconomic events, specifically US interest rates.Having said that, the first Federal Reserve policy meeting of 2018 is expected to be one of the more uneventful Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings in some time.The likelihood of a hike on Wednesday evening is near zero, and the fact that th...Read More
Alex Lightman, chief executive of TokenCommunities Plc, and Daniel Taylor, chief executive of Stars Group chat to Proactive's Andrew Scott about their plans to bring football and Blockchain together.Taylor says they're looking to introduce the STARS token for the use in the purchase of merchandise as well as ticket sales and inner-group player transfers. Meet Reward Minerals Ltd, Recce Ltd,...Read More
Miles Campion and Laurence Read, executive directors at Ferrum Crescent Ltd (LON:FCR), discuss with Proactive's Andrew Scott the maiden JORC resource at their Toral zinc-lead project in Spain.The resource comes in at 16mln tonnes of ore grading 6.9% zinc equivalent, including lead credits, and 25 grams per tonne silver.In terms of metal that amounts to 670,000 tonnes of zinc, 540,000 tonnes of lea...Read More