Mr. Cooper Quinn reports OSPREY CLOSES OVERSUBSCRIBED PRIVATE PLACEMENT FOR PROCEEDS OF $1,344,187 Osprey Gold Development Ltd. has closed its previously announced oversubscribed non-brokered private placement of 17,922,499 units of Osprey at a price of 7.5 cents per unit, for aggregate proceeds of $1,344,187. Each unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, each whole warran...Read More

Mr. Cooper Quinn reports OSPREY CLOSES OVERSUBSCRIBED PRIVATE PLACEMENT FOR PROCEEDS OF $1,344,187 Osprey Gold Development Ltd. has closed its previously announced oversubscribed non-brokered private placement of 17,922,499 units of Osprey at a price of 7.5 cents per unit, for aggregate proceeds of $1,344,187. Each unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, each whole warran...Read More

Vangold Mining Corporation (TSXV: VAN) (OTC Pink: VGLDF) (FSE: E35B) ('Vangold' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that it has initiated a Resource Valuation and Preliminary Economic Assessment ('PEA') in respect of the Company's 100% owned El Pinguico Project, in Guanajuato, Mexico.Read full newsRead More

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - S&P 500 stock index e-mini futures dipped 0.25 percent late on Wednesday after the regular trading session, suggesting U.S. stocks might lose ground at the beginning of the next trading session.Earlier on Wednesday, the S&P 500 index ended down 0.50 percent, with Wall Street spooked about a recent retreat in stock prices as U.S. Treasury bond yields resumed...Read More

(Adds Gundlach quotes on Treasuries)By Jennifer AblanNEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of Doubleline Capital, said on Wednesday that the "low rate-low volatility" market environment went on for so long that now "the unwind will be turbulent and not over in a couple of days."Gundlach, who is known as the Wall Street bond king, told Reuters that bitco...Read More

(Adds Macquarie declining to comment in paragraph 6)By Jacob Gronholt-PedersenCOPENHAGEN, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Danish telecoms operator TDC said Wednesday it had turned down an indicative takeover bid from Australia's Macquarie and three Danish pension funds ATP, PFA and PKA."Having reviewed the terms of the proposal, TDC Group's Board of Directors concluded that it is not in the best interest...Read More

* Wall Street stocks end lower; investors nervousness remains* European shares end up, snap seven-day losing streak* Oil prices fall 2.0 pct after U.S. inventory data (Updates with U.S. closing market levels)By Caroline ValetkevitchNEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks finished lower on Wednesday, losing ground late in the session as a jump in Treasury yields kept investor nervousness high.Oil p...Read More

BOGOTA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Colombian holding company Valorem has asked regulators to allow it to buy back its own shares, the country's financial regulator said on Wednesday.The company is willing to pay 909 pesos per share, the regulator said in an open letter to the stock exchange, but did not specify how many shares it is looking to purchase. Valorem was not immediately available for comment.The...Read More

(Adds comments from analyst)SAO PAULO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks fell again on Wednesday in the wake of the recent wild swings on Wall Street, and Brazilian equities were dragged down by shares of Petrobas.Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index led losses in the region, down 1.34 percent in afternoon trade. Among the biggest drags on the exchange were shares of Petr??leo Brasileiro SA, which have...Read More

FTSE 100 closes 138 pts higherMiners take brunt of sellingEyes on Bank of England meeting tomorrow  FTSE 100 continued its winning streak in late afternoon trading to close up 138 points at 7,279 - well above the previous session peak of 7,255.The mid-cap 250 index was also higher - up over 429 points, at 19,691 as some kind of stability returned to markets.On Wall Street, shar...Read More

Mark Popkiewicz, chief executive of Mirriad Advertising Plc (LON:MIRI) explains to Proactive's Andrew Scott the concept behind what they call 'in-video' advertising.''We decided there was a need in the world for a new form of advertising, a new form of video advertising ... where the ads themselves appear in the content completely naturally, so they look like they were always there but they don't...Read More

By Swati PandeySYDNEY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The New Zealand dollar skidded to a one-month trough on Thursday after the country's central bank left interest rates at record lows and cut its inflation forecasts, suggesting easy monetary policy was here to stay. The local dollar extended losses to drop as low as $0.7209, a level not seen since early January after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) p...Read More

(Adds details on quarterly results, shares)Feb 7 (Reuters) - Prudential Financial Inc , the largest U.S. life insurer by assets, on Wednesday reported a 7.6 percent rise in quarterly operating profit that topped analysts' estimates, helped by higher policy fees in its annuities business.Prudential's adjusted operating profit was $1.17 billion, or $2.69 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec....Read More

The U.S. stock market recently suffered a major pullback, as volatility surged. As such, Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White compiled a list of the best stocks to buy after a major pullback -- defined as when the SPX falls at least 1% in two consecutive sessions within a month of an all-time high -- since the current bull market began in 2010. Two notable names from the list are bi...Read More

Monday's monster stock selloff is exhibit A for why I frequently recommend a 10 percent weighting in gold, with 5 percent in bullion and jewelry, the other 5 percent in high-quality gold stocks, mutual funds and ETFs.What began on Friday after the positive wage growth report extended into Monday, with all major averages dipping into negative territory for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...Read More

Jason LangeDES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Sluggish price increases in the United States give the Federal Reserve room to hold off on interest rate increases until at least mid-2018, Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Wednesday.“If we get to that point and have more confidence that inflation is moving up sustainably, then further rate increases would be warranted,” Ev...Read More

Maiya Keidan, Simon JessopLONDON (Reuters) - Trend-following hedge funds were stopped in their tracks by global market volatility this week, with some giving up all of their gains from a stellar start to the year.Investors locked into steady moves had enjoyed strong gains as markets ‘melted up’ with the aid of easy monetary policy that leading central banks have said they plan to tight...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday sold $24 billion in 10-year government notes at a yield of 2.811 percent, which was the highest yield at a 10-year auction in four years, Treasury data showed.FILE PHOTO: Bundles of banknotes of U.S. Dollar are pictured at a currency exchange shop in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File PhotoThe ratio...Read More

(Adds analyst comments, context throughout)By Bruno FederowskiBRASILIA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank cut interest rates to an all-time low on Wednesday and suggested it had reached the end of its deepest easing cycle in a decade as an economic recovery gathered pace.The bank's monetary policy committee, known as Copom, cut the benchmark Selic rate by 25 basis points to 6.75 percent, ca...Read More

Trevor Hunnicutt, Saqib Iqbal AhmedNEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors burned this week by the steep drop in the value of financial instruments that bet on stock market calm have a counterintuitive reaction: wade straight back in.Many are even looking for an opportunity to buy “short volatility” again using exchange-traded products (ETPs).Two banks, Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.S) and Nomur...Read More