Archive for May, 2009

Haywood now Financial Partner of Firstgold

firstgoldFirstgold Corp. failed to submit its annual financial on time report Monday. The company said a pungent cash crunch banned it from filing the mandated audit. Company executives told the audit report for the recent fiscal year that ended 31 January would be completed when cash becomes available. Nonetheless, the authority did not mention when financial condition would improve.

The Cameron Park-based group inaugurated production in March at a gold mine at Nevada. However, since it had hit hard times as leading officials to deem selling Firstgold. The company hired Haywood Securities Inc. to help getting a buyer or extra financing. Haywood is a Canadian investment banking company.

The company’s chief executive Steve Akerfeldt told in a press release that Firstgold started negotiations with more three potential buyers. The company has leases on more than10,000 acres in Nevada. Firstgold has suspended gold processing. It has spent around $16 million to expand the processing facility & capability at Relief Canyon Mine.

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IPIC Financed Additional $1.41 Billion into Aabar Investment PJSC

Aabar Investments PJSCUAE-based the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) told the media on Friday that the company is going to announce several investment opportunities. Now it is revising its investment plans.

IPIC was established in the year 1984 and it is completely owned by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. However, it is operated by an independent Board of Directors. H.H. Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has charged on Chairman of IPIC since 1994. Al Nahyan is personally directing the company’s progress towards the realization that to develop and boost Abu Dhabi’s presence in worldwide.

After a general meeting of the Board of Directors headed by Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of IPIC, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister of Presidential Affairs (MPA); the company said that the meeting discussed IPIC ’s performance through the first quarter of 2009 and reviewed several reports on different projects.

Additionally, they discussed on some investment opportunities and the opportunities will soon be announced. The company recently invested an additional $1.41 billion (nearly Dh5.17b) in the Aabar Investment PJSC. The pumped was to give the country a bulk control in the investment firm set over Daimler AG’s major shareholder.

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Walt Disney Profit Falls

DisneyThe giant Walt Disney Co.’s quarterly revenue fall 46 percent of this year particularly at its movie-studio and theme-park sector. Robert Iger, the chief executive and President called the quarter “difficult … due to the weak economy and other factors”.

Disney made total revenue of $613 million in first 3 months of 2009, low from $1.13 billion one year ago. The movies of Walt Disney have demonstrated to be a box office disappointment in this year and the income at  theme parks, which provide approximately a quarter of the company’s earning, fell 50 percent and profits turned down 12 percent.

So, to recover their loss, Disney has been providing reduction offers to increase audience and has cut almost nineteen-hundred jobs in the unit.

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