Shareholders Invited to Attend Rubicon's Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario

Solar firm Hanergy suspends trading after stocks plunge

Beijing-based solar energy firm Hanergy Thin Film Power Group (HTF) suspended trading in Hong Kong Wednesday after its share price plunged by 47 percent, following a stellar rise in the past year. A company statement on the Hong Kong stock exchange website said trading had been suspended on Wednesday morning “pending release of an announcement containing inside information”. The share price tumbled from HK$7.35 ($0.95) to HK$3.91 before the suspension

Wednesday, May 20: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The gold price was under choppy selling pressure up until ten minutes after the COMEX open in New York yesterday morning—and at that point the HFT boyz and their algorithms went to work, with most of the damage done by around 10:35 a.m. EDT.  The gold price traded flat after that, but the absolute low tick was a quick down/up spike minutes before 11:30 a.m. The

Austria's Signa eyes buying Kaufhof from Metro

Austrian holding company Signa, which owns the Karstadt chain of department stores, has made a 2.9-billion-euro ($3.2-billion) offer to buy rival Kaufhof chain from Metro, the business daily Handelsblatt reported Wednesday. Quoting “several” sources with knowledge about the deal, the newspaper said that Signa, the holding company of Austrian real estate magnate Rene Benko, has completed a review of Kaufhof’s accounts and submitted a written offer. Benko has already tried

Mortgage Rates Edge Downward to 3.77%

Filed under: Buying, Financing, Refinancing ZillowThe weekly mortgage rate chart illustrates the average 30-year fixed interest rate in six-hour intervals. By Lauren Braun Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed loans fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgages at 3.77 percent, down 5 basis points from the same time last week. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell early in the week, then hovered around 3.71 percent

Mortgage Rates Edge Downward to 3.77%

Filed under: Buying, Financing, Refinancing ZillowThe weekly mortgage rate chart illustrates the average 30-year fixed interest rate in six-hour intervals. By Lauren Braun Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed loans fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgages at 3.77 percent, down 5 basis points from the same time last week. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell early in the week, then hovered around 3.71 percent