Are you wondering which portions of the current stock market are the best areas of the market to place your capital into? If you are wondering which portions of the current market you should invest into, look into what is known as an IPO. An IPO is an initial public offering. An initial public offering [...]

Ivanhoe’s stake increased to 50%
Discussions underway with potential strategic investors; stock-exchange listing planned

SAN JUAN, PR–(Marketwire – March 11, 2010) –  Doral Financial Corporation (NYSE: DRL) (“Doral” or the “Company”), the holding company of Doral Bank, today announced it has extended the expiration date until 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on March 19th, 2010 for its offers to exchange up to 16,500,000 shares of its common stock [...]

LONDON–(Marketwire – March 8, 2010) – With reference to the Fourth Quarter Results
announcement, the Board of
Directors of Golar LNG Limited (the “Company”) is pleased to advise that it
has
declared a dividend (the “Dividend”) to the Company’s common shareholders,
consisting of one (1) common share of the Company’s subsidiary, Golar LNG
Energy
Limited (“Golar Energy”) for every seven (7) [...]

SAN JUAN, PR–(Marketwire – February 11, 2010) – Doral Financial Corporation (NYSE: DRL)
(“Doral” or the “Company”), the holding company of Doral Bank, today filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) an offer to exchange up
to 16,500,000 shares of its common stock for issued and outstanding shares
of its 7.00% Noncumulative Monthly Income Preferred Stock, Series [...]

STAVANGER, NORWAY–(Marketwire – February 3, 2010) – Statoil’s board of directors has
unanimously decided to evaluate a new ownership
structure for the group’s energy and retail business. Stock-exchange
listing is
assumed to be the most likely solution and may take place in the fourth
quarter
of this year at the earliest.

The decision is prompted by an analysis of the development [...]

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – January 5, 2010) – The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
announced today that 2009 was the busiest year in the 36-year history of
the clearinghouse with record levels of options trading and major
expansions of its futures and stock loan services.

Options: Exchange-listed options trading in the U.S., OCC’s core business,
achieved its seventh consecutive record year [...]

VANCOUVER,
BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Dec. 23, 2009) – BCM Resources
Corporation (TSX VENTURE:B) (the “Company” or “BCM”) intends to file Form 15F
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) prior to December 30, 2009
to voluntarily terminate its reporting obligations under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
The
Company believes that the costs associated with the SEC Sarbanes-Oxley
requirements outweigh benefits received from [...]

What’s a penny stock market? How does it operate and why do some people talk about penny shares going up and down? Who are these so called stock brokers? Two words should be enough to give you a brief idea. These are because of investments and profits. The stock exchange is [...]

by Anne Torres
If you’re looking at a website saying they can give you an instant merchant account, that’s a con. There is no such thing as an instant merchant account and if some providers boast of a high approval rate, it’s because they would have already pre-screened their applicants before submitting applications to the merchant [...]