The Federal Reserve’s decision not to hike interest rates may have brought renewed volatility and a stock market selloff, but it also carved out breathing room for a couple of sectors: dividend payers and housing stocks. With 10-year Treasuries now yielding around 2.14 percent, the 2.2 percent dividend yield of the overall S&P 500 should appeal to income-hungry investors who are convinced interest rates will stay low for a while.
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG faces penalties up to $18 billion after being accused of designing software for diesel cars that deceives regulators measuring toxic emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday. “Put simply, these cars contained software that turns off emissions controls when driving normally and turns them on when the car is undergoing an emissions test,” Cynthia Giles, an enforcement officer at the EPA, told reporters
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan federal judge on Friday dismissed former Ukrainian prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko’s civil lawsuit accusing her political opponents of running a U.S.-based racketeering enterprise that led to her imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said Tymoshenko failed to show that the industrialist Dmytro Firtash and other defendants laundered money in the United States to help pay Ukraine prosecutors and
[Marketwired] – Timmins Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with a Mexican subsidiary of Goldcorp Inc. to acquire the complete process plant and select auxiliary equipment used in the …
[CNW Group] – Goldcorp to release 2015 third quarter results and host conference call and webcast on October 29th
[PR Newswire] – TSX: G NYSE: GG VANCOUVER, Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – GOLDCORP INC . (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) will release third quarter results prior to market open on Thursday, October 29, 2015. A conference call will …
With stock markets plunging around the world, including the Dow falling nearly 300 points, today one of the top economists in the world sent King World News an incredibly powerful piece warning that the central planners’ twisted fairy tale will have a nightmare ending. Below is the fantastic piece from Michael Pento.
[PR Newswire] – VANCOUVER, Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton” or the “Company”) (SLW) (SLW) announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) has accepted the notice of Silver Wheaton’s intention to commence a normal course issuer bid (the “NCIB”). On September 14, 2015, Silver Wheaton announced its intention to seek TSX approval for an NCIB. This approval allows the Company to purchase up to 20,229,671
[CNW Group] – Silver Wheaton Receives TSX Approval for a Normal Course Issuer Bid
[Marketwired] – Banro Corporation (“Banro” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT:BAA)(BAA.TO) is pleased to announce the intersection of significant mineralization from on-going near mine exploration activities at its wholly-owned Namoya project, located on the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt in the Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”). The near mine exploration at Namoya encompasses follow-up work in the Namoya Summit-Filon B area, the hanging-wall zone at Namoya Summit
