Morning Market Brief: April 19th (Company Briefs: BHP, RIO, BCI) TAGS: BCI | BHP | Company Briefs | RIO Overnight Headlines: The Bank of Spain stated the ratio of bad loans for the sector hit a 17-year high in Feb’12 of 8.2%. Yields on 10-year Spanish bonds fell to …Continue reading →

Morning Market Brief: April 17th (Company Briefs: PDN) TAGS: BHP | Company Brief | diamond | Flinders | Jay Weatherill | KKR | Malawi | MMK | Moody's | Namibia | Olympic Dam | Paladin Energy Ltd | PDN | RIO | Sandra Pianalto | Spanish bonds Overnight Headlines: Moody’s announced over the weekend that it has delayed a plan to review over 100 European banks until May’12, stating the report will be released when they are …Continue reading →

MPS Uranium Roundup: Fortnight to 6 April TAGS: AGS | Alliance Resources | Black Range Minerals | BLR | Cauldron Energy | CXU | EMA | EME | Energy & Minerals | Energy Metals | Marenica Energy | MEY | RIO | Rio Tinto | SHE | SMM | Stonehenge Metals | Summit Resources | Uranium | WHE | Wildhorse Energy Uranium Movers: Highlights The uranium spot price was largely unchanged over the fortnight, down 15% YoY at US$51.10/lb. In local dollar terms, the spot price continues to improve with a …Continue reading →

Vale 3Q11 results TAGS: 3Q11 | Brazil | Europe | Iron ore | RIO | Vale Vale’s 3Q11 results were another record breaking quarter in an operational and financial sense. The key take-outs for iron ore were: Sales of iron ore & pellets reached 77.5mt, flat …Continue reading →

Morning Market Brief: Oct 11 TAGS: Belgium | BHP | Chim Sao Project | copper | Dexia | European Banks | France | French President | German Chancellor | Gold | Merkel | Olypic Dam | RIO | Santos | Sarkozy | silver | Tasman Resources | Vietnam Headlines: Gold for December delivery gained 2.1% to US$1670.80 Silver for December delivery gained 3.2% to US$31.99 WTI crude for November delivery gained 2.9% to US$85.41 German Chancellor Merkel and …Continue reading →

Iron Ore Roundup: Sep 12 TAGS: AGO | AJM | Altura Mining | Amex Resources | AQA | Aquila Resources | Atlas Iron | AXZ | BC Iron | BCI | Chrysalis Resources | Cockatoo Island | CYS | DLE | Dragon Energy | FerrAus | Flinders Mines | FMG | FMS | Fortescue Metals | FRS | Hamersley project | HEM | Hemisphere Resources | Iron ore | Pluton Resources | PLV | RIO | Rio Tinto | Speewah Metals | SPM | spot prices | WFE | Winwar Highlights: Iron ore spot prices have been largely unchanged during the last fortnight, in both US$  and A$ terms. In contrast, equity prices of the pure iron ore stocks have …Continue reading →