Financial

Deutsche Boerse AG announced in mid-March it plans to acquire the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in a U.S. $30.6 billion deal that will form the world’s second-biggest trading platform.

The merger unites the City of London, a leading global financial centre, and Frankfurt, the home of the European Central Bank and the hub of continental Europe’s largest economy, Germany. Deutsche Boerse and LSE will be subsidiaries of the combined company, uniting LSE’s share trading operations with Deutsche Boerse’s derivatives dealing business.

Amid people’s extreme disappointments on the Chinese stock market when the Chinese stock market reached bottom low of 1859 points in June 2013, the article commented “Influenced by various unfavorable economic factors, The market has lost its downward momentum in falling prices. The future bull market may not be in the distant future, but rather, it may not be far away at all.”

By Alan Forsythe


Roughly twenty LNG projects are or have been in recent years proposed for Canada’s west coast. How many of these proposals will become reality, up and running, profit making ventures, nine? Four? Two even? Currently only one project is looking at beginning operations before the end of this decade, Woodfibre LNG. A modest project (compared to other proposals) located on Howe Sound less than an hour north of Vancouver. Woodfibre will be the first built from scratch LNG project primarily focused on the Asian export market as opposed to domestic or U.S export.

Jerry Xie, the Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary of China Gold Internationa