On 10 September 2013 the English Commercial Court (the “Court”) provided a summary of its decision to dismiss all of the claims asserted by Excalibur Ventures LLC (“Excalibur”) against the Company, its two subsidiaries and Texas Keystone Inc.

On 6th December 2013, the end game for Falklands hydrocarbon explorer Desire Petroleum (DES) finally came with the following RNS signaling the merger with fellow Falklands Islands oil explorer, Falklands Oil and Gas (FOGL). It might be argued that this signals an end of an era, but more likely the end of one chapter of the Falklands saga.

An announcement today from Cameroon focused oil and gas explorer, Bowleven with the directors being awarded significant numbers of shares under a long term incentive programme. Given the bombed out state of the share price at 37.5p when the award was made, Kevin Hart (the Chief Executive) and the board of directors must be feeling very pleased with themselves!

For many AIM oil and gas investors it probably has been tough over the last two years. Some of the oil shares which have been most popular with private investors like the Falklands drillers – Falklands Oil and Gas (FOGL), Desire Petroleum (DES) and Borders and Southern (BOR) haven’t fared well.

It’s been a pretty torrid end to the year for our magazine’s biggest call of 2013. Gold has tanked and the market seems to be in complete agreement that further falls are all but guaranteed.

When Bitcoin was created in 2008, we suspect very few people would have imagined just how serious the project would become.

New investors will be well served by studying key terms and concepts involved in understanding the essentials of market operation.

About 5 years ago the Fed launched an unprecedented shopping spree, commonly known as quantitative easing, in plain English a wild attempt to buy $1.25 trillion in mortgage bonds in 12 months with main purpose to affect credit conditions for households and businesses.

The Irish focused oil and gas explorer caught my attention in the last few weeks after a serious plunge in its share price. The shares are now at 4p, down 90% in the last year after a series of operational problems and funding crises.

As we enter November, you’d be forgiven for feeling that all is well with the world and we are through the worst of the crisis. However, as we should all be acutely aware of in this QE-manipulated world of ours, face value is an increasingly treacherous commodity