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Ventana Gold Corp. announce that 63X Master Fund (“63X”), its largest shareholder, has acquired ownership and control of an additional 1.1 million common shares of Ventana through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange, bringing its …

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World stocks fall on euro debt, growth fears
Global stock markets reeled Tuesday amid growing fears the European debt crisis threatens a return to recession and a spike in dangerous tensions between North and South Korea.
Investors, rocked by fresh turmoil in the Spanish banking sector, were also hit by the prospect of severe [...]

Northrock Resources Inc. has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 6,000,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of $0.05 per unit for aggregate proceeds of up to $300,000 and up to 10,000,000 flow through units (the “FT Unit…

Asia shares rise on Europe, IBM; euro wobbles,asia stock market ,asia stock market news
Asian stocks rose on Thursday as fresh austerity measures promised by Spain and Portugal gave investors hope that Europe’s debt crisis can be contained, while IBM’s strong profit forecast gave a further boost to tech shares.
The euro struggled near 14-month lows, however, [...]


Guinness Exploration Inc. announced it has completed a second unit offering private placement which raised U.S. $500,000 to be used toward exploration of the Nantawa Project.
Guinness President and CEO Alastair Brown commented, “As evidenced by this second successful private placement, the Nantawa Project is gaining momentum and drawing good interest from investors. We’re looking forward [...]

Greek’s debt troubles raise contagion worries
The Greek debt crisis sent a shudder through global financial markets and served as a dramatic reminder of how vulnerable the world economy remains to the threat of a fast-spreading financial panic.
To many, market developments this week served as a spooky reminder of the fall of 2008 and the panic [...]

Your editor reports in from rainy Frankston this week. While the missus is off supervising a school trip to Canberra we’re stuck at home on school pick-up and drop-off duty.
We’re not sure that being down here in Frankston will add any different perspective to when we normally write from St Kilda, but you never [...]

Filed under: Earnings Reports, FedEx Corp (FDX), Economic Data, Rite Aid Corp (RAD)Last Friday, we learned the economy added 123,000 jobs, the most in three years. Investors everywhere are now waiting for the Dow to cross the 11,000 mark and hoping tha…

Your editor writes from the sickbed this morning *cough*, so don’t be surprised if we cut things a little short *sniffle*.
Looking at the Aussie market we’re wondering, will it break out higher this time?
If you look at the chart below you can see the market has put in another rapid gain:

It’s added about 5% over [...]

This morning we’re still chuckling away at Christopher Joye’s ‘revelation’ about the stock market being risky – 11.6 times riskier than cash apparently. Bless him.
We’re looking forward to his next bombshell. Maybe he’ll reveal to the world that water is wet! What? It is? [Shae, quick, get Einstein, Newton and [...]