David Ciclitira, executive chairman of Live Company Group Plc (LON:LVCG), tells Proactive Investors they're taking their themed shows on the road after setting up a new division, BRICKLIVE Touring.Kicking things off is an exhibition called BRICKLIVE Animal Paradise, which is designed to educate the LEGO fan community about endangered species and will feature more than 65 LEGO animals, including a...Read More

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for President Donald Trump sought in court on Friday to stop U.S. prosecutors from deciding what materials seized from his personal attorney can be used in a probe that began with a referral by investigators looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.Monday’s raids of attorney Michael Cohen’s home and office followed a refer...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will focus heavily on the challenge posed by North Korea’s nuclear arms program when they meet next week in Florida, a senior Trump administration official said on Friday.The Trump-Abe summit at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago retreat in Palm Beach comes as U.S. officials are working to set up a summit between...Read More

(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) will be profitable in the third and fourth quarters of this year and will not have to raise any money from investors, billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday, driving shares in the electric carmaker up to 3 percent higher.Tesla has already sought this month to play down Wall Street speculation that it would need to return to capital markets this year to...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - Budding optimism on global trade helped European shares advance on Friday although a turn lower on Wall Street after disappointing earnings cut some of the market’s earlier gains.The STOXX 600 held near one-month highs, ending the day up 0.1 percent.Germany's DAX .GDAXI, highly sensitive to trade and China, gained 0.2 percent after U.S. President Trump made comments indic...Read More

LONDON (Reuters) - Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them.1/RUSSIAN ROULETTEInvestors are strapping themselves in tight and bracing for another ride on the Russian rollercoaster next week after turbulent trading in the wake of new U.S. sanctions and a spike in tensions over Syria.The rouble plung...Read More

Call options have become quite popular with BACEarnings season is underway, and bank name Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) will kick things off next week, as it's scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the open Monday. BAC stock will try to avoid the fate of sector peers JPMorgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Citigroup (C), which have turned lower today in the wake of their quarterly re...Read More

The big banks are leading a major market pullbackThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has turned lower, as a sharp reversal in big bank shares weighs on the broader stock market. In fact, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is now the worst performing blue chip, down 2.5%, after this morning's earnings release. Renewed trade war fears may also be to blame for the pullback, following a Wall Street Journal story...Read More

Oil & gas commentator Malcolm Graham-Wood discusses what's been a great start for Echo Energy's Argentina workover programme.The existing well, tagged CSo-85, perforated a previously untapped gas reservoir which flowed to surface without any further intervention. Gas flows from the reservoir are estimated at 2mln cubic feet per day.Graham-Wood also talks SDX Energy and confirmation its latest...Read More

There will once again be a bit of a retail theme coming through in the coming week, with updates due from a number of high street names including Debenhams PLC (LON:DEB), JD Sports PLC (LON:JD.), and Primark owner Associated British Food PLC (LON:ABF).The discount clothing stores chain has established itself as the food to retail conglomerate most important division in recent years.Primark already...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the creation of a task force to study the U.S. Postal Service and its financial difficulties, after recently claiming without evidence that deliveries for Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) were costing the service money.The task force will look into the post office’s business model, similar to a commission set up by U.S. President...Read More

By William Wilkes BERLIN -- Rocketing demand and prices for lithium, coupled with China's stranglehold on supply, are reviving interest in mining Europe's reserves of the coveted metal some call white petroleum. Prices for lithium used in the batteries that power anything from mobile phones to Teslas more than doubled to $21,000 a ton in the past two years. Analysts expect the lithium-ion batter...Read More

Today Copper Online – BUY Copper at CMP 443.30 for Target 445.50 – 446.50 with SL below price 440.20. RISK taker trade 2 lotsAFTER POST CONTENT Read More

Zinc Commodity Calls – Zinc BUY Carry Call 598 given at price 202.30 (202.75+201.80) Almost near to Target 204.60. CMP 204.20. Total 1.9 x 2 = 3.80 Points Profit. RISK Taker hold for 204.80TIPS ID 598 : ZINC Call - BUY Zinc at CMP 202.75 Add more if price 201.80 for Target 204.60 with SL below price level 200.50 (MODIFIED) (CARRY CALL) AFTER POST CONTENT Read More

Billionaire Andrew Forrest is studying a proposed 1,500-mile (2,400-kilometer) transcontinental natural gas pipeline as part of his iron ore company's strategy to diversify and to boost Australia's power supply network.Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. confirmed it has undertaken work for a duct that would link the gas-rich state of Western Australia with fuel-strapped East Coast power markets where the...Read More

Billionaire Andrew Forrest is studying a proposed 1,500-mile (2,400-kilometer) transcontinental natural gas pipeline as part of his iron ore company's strategy to diversify and to boost Australia's power supply network.Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. confirmed it has undertaken work for a duct that would link the gas-rich state of Western Australia with fuel-strapped East Coast power markets where the...Read More

Mining Capital's Alastair Ford discusses lithium, copper and the  electric vehicle revolution.''It's an interesting dynamic, the lithium industry, on the one hand the price has been strong, it remains strong and we've seen a doubling in the price over the last 12 months and the price has tripled since 2015 ....but some pundits in the market are beginning to wonder how long this can last''.''A...Read More

(Kitco News) - Participantsin the Kitco News weekly gold survey look for gold to build upon this week’sgains, helped in large part by geopolitical tensions but also technical-chartsupport. Wall Street Bullish Bearish Neutral VSMain Street Bullish Bearish Neutral Gold surgedmidweek as the market factored in potential U.S. military action in Syria,before later pulling back...Read More

(Kitco News) - Participants in the Kitco News weekly gold survey look for gold to build upon this week’s gains, helped in large part by geopolitical tensions but also technical-chart support. Wall Street Bullish Bearish Neutral VS Main Street Bullish Bearish Neutral Gold surged midweek as the market factored in potential U.S. military action in Syria, before...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the world’s largest asset manager, raised total compensation for chairman and chief executive officer Larry Fink by 8.9 percent in 2017, according to a filing on Friday.Fink was awarded $27.7 million in compensation last year, compared to $25.5 million in 2016, based on a calculation of his pay in line with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission g...Read More