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Associated Press
2 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
North Direct Launches Global Market Intelligence Platform to Aid Cross-Border Investment Strategies
London, England, United Kingdom, July 18, 2025 -- North Direct, a multi-asset access provider, has introduced a new Global Market Intelligence Platform designed to support individuals and firms engaged in cross-border investing. The platform can now be used via the web-based interface of North Direct and will help users to track the international markets more effectively. The launch is a response to the increasing demand for easier access to market data in different locations and asset classes. As global investors seek better tools to handle geopolitical events, currency changes, and sector-specific developments, this new feature attempts to simplify how they perceive and respond to global financial data. The Global Market Intelligence Platform provides real-time updates across equities, commodities, currencies, and indices. It is integrated with North Direct's existing platform and includes filtering options for specific markets, economic indicators, and geopolitical developments. Enhancing Cross-Border Awareness Through Market Data Tools The new platform brings together regional market indicators, news feeds, and asset-specific analysis in one place. According to North Direct's team, the update is part of an ongoing focus to provide 'market transparency' and help clients identify investment opportunities or risks in different parts of the world. 'Our clients are looking for more than just price charts. They want access to relevant data that helps them understand the forces behind market movement,' said a North Direct spokesperson. 'This feature was developed to help them navigate foreign markets with more clarity, especially when trading multiple asset classes.' The platform is structured around simplified dashboards and offers customizable watchlists for various market categories. Users can follow key economic indicators, monitor performance by country, and track price reactions to geopolitical updates. North Direct's product team said that ease of use was a core priority during the development process. The system does not require additional downloads and is accessible via the same login as the main trading platform, making it simple for clients to integrate it into their existing workflow. A second spokesperson from North Direct explained that the new feature also responds to growing demand from users managing diversified portfolios. 'When someone is exposed to multiple markets, keeping up with regional developments can be overwhelming. This tool was designed to make that process more manageable,' the expert said. 'Whether someone is monitoring the 'equities' market in Asia or keeping an eye on European 'index futures,' this platform gives them quick access to what matters most.' Furthermore, the company will be keeping a close eye on the North Direct review from users around the world to continue making necessary updates. Enhancing the Wider Investment Environment and Decision-Making This update comes at a time when global investors are becoming more impacted by happenings beyond domestic markets. The asset prices across borders are usually affected by currency fluctuations, interest rate decisions, trade policy changes and political risks. Under this platform, North Direct will offer organized, region-specific data that can be used by the clients to make their trading and investment decisions. The platform's interface includes market summaries that update based on economic releases or breaking news. Traders and investors can filter results by region or sector to identify areas of interest, helping to reduce time spent switching between third-party data sources. The Global Market Intelligence Platform is not a standalone product. Instead, it is embedded into North Direct's existing systems, available to users with live accounts. There are no separate registration requirements, and all tools are integrated into the client portal. About North Direct North Direct is a multi-asset access provider offering a range of trading instruments, including commodities, equities, indices, and cryptocurrencies. The company provides a web-based trading platform accessible on desktop and mobile devices, with standard functionality and security measures, including encryption and account verification. North Direct offers various deposit and withdrawal methods, prioritizes fast trade execution, and provides customer support through multiple channels. 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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
SONAR Unveils Redesigned Supply Chain Intelligence Platform with New Risk and Efficiency Quadrant
A completely redesigned experience for SONAR's Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) has been launched allowing SCI to deliver faster insights, deeper market intelligence, and more actionable guidance for shippers managing their RFPs. The updated platform merges the previous Opportunity View and List View into a single, powerful page called Lane View. This consolidation allows users to drill into lane-level insights efficiently, see market performance across both Intermodal and Truckload, and access pricing benchmarks, guidance, and scoring within one streamlined interface. Embedded in the new Lane View is a quadrant-based guidance system for risk and efficiency. This feature helps prioritize RFP strategy by categorizing lanes into four zones: High Risk Zone: Lanes that are difficult to cover and where you are over market. Carrier Dependent Zone: Lanes that are difficult to cover and where you are under market. Savings Opportunity: Lanes that are easy to cover where you are over market. Efficiency Zone: Top-performing lanes where you are under market and lanes are easy to cover. These zones highlight where to focus time, renegotiate, or reallocate volume. Additionally, the update introduces enhanced Summary and Network Views for sharper high-level visibility. Users can better understand where they are overpaying or underpaying across their network with clearer visuals and aggregated scoring. New market-level maps and improved filters help spot areas of concern or opportunity and enable faster diagnostics. The new SCI helps unlock greater RFP savings and lane performance with smarter, visual prioritization, allowing users to reduce risk, boost service, and easily spot network inefficiencies. To explore the redesigned experience, log in to SONAR and navigate to the SCI module. For a personalized walkthrough, contact your account manager or cs@ To learn more about SONAR, visit and request a demo. The post SONAR Unveils Redesigned Supply Chain Intelligence Platform with New Risk and Efficiency Quadrant appeared first on FreightWaves. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Herald Sun
4 days ago
- Business
- Herald Sun
Reward outweighs risk for these West African gold miners
Don't miss out on the headlines from Stockhead. Followed categories will be added to My News. West Africa has been the best place to explore for gold in the past 15 years And if you can handle the risk, the rewards remain rich according to SCP Resource Finance Many Peaks among the smallest stocks to catch SCP's eye Despite a higher sovereign risk profile, the West African gold space punches well above its weight in terms of discovery and corporate activity. ASX 200 producers Perseus Mining (ASX:PRU) and West African Resources (ASX:WAF) have established themselves among the lowest cost and most consistent gold miners on the ASX, paving the way for others to follow. A new report from SCP Resource Finance analyst Justin Chan described West Africa as the most dynamic region over the past 15 years for gold discoveries, new mine builds, M&A and the emergence of new mid-tier miners. 'What makes West Africa special is the combination of geology, year-round exploration/construction, fast permitting, and 'low-hanging fruit' that enables companies to find and build a mine within one gold price cycle, enabling investors to avoid the 'washing machine cycle' of projects stalling in bad markets or waiting for permits,' he said. 'Moreover, while Africa has its challenges, the silver lining is we think the executives and operators in Africa are serious and driven to achieve a discovery, build a mine, or transact quickly; Africa is no place for 'lifestyle' companies.' Punching above its discovery weight Unlike more mature jurisdictions, Chan pointed out that it was still possible for explorers to find open-pittable deposits with attractive grades, metallurgy and low capital intensity in West Africa. 'The numbers speak for themselves: more than 70 million ounces have been discovered in West Africa from 2010-2024 versus 37Moz in Canada, 30Moz in Australia and 30Moz in the USA over the same period per S&P Market Intelligence,' he said. That's despite West Africa attracting a third of the spend of those other jurisdictions. Major discoveries in recent years include Predictive Discovery's (ASX:PDI) 5.5Moz Bankan in Guinea and Montage Gold's 6Moz Koné project in Côte d'Ivoire, the latter of which is in construction. Last year, Turaco Gold (ASX:TCG) reported an initial resource of 2.5Moz for its Afema project in Côte d'Ivoire just five months after completing the acquisition. The resource has since increased to 3.6Moz. Rapid builds SCP said despite the high rate of discoveries, mine builds had outpaced them over the past 10 years. New builds in the past five years have included West African's Sanbrado in Burkina Faso, Perseus' Yaoure in Côte d'Ivoire, Orezone's Bomboré in Burkina Faso, Tietto Minerals' Abujar in Côte d'Ivoire, Fortuna Mining Corp's Séguéla in Côte d'Ivoire, and Endeavour Mining's Lafigué in Côte d'Ivoire and Sabodala-Massawa in Senegal. Just over two weeks ago, West African confirmed it had poured first gold at its Kiaka mine in Burkina Faso, ahead of schedule and under budget and just 3.5 years after acquiring the project from B2Gold. SCP said the builds had cleared 'two generations' of projects from the development pipeline. 'We think projects that can start building in the 2026-2028 window are in the sweet spot: we think nearly all the Africa focused producers will be or are actively looking for projects within this window, and nearly all of them have built mines recently, thus are not afraid of a buy and build,' Chan said. Deals flowing M&A has also progressed at a frenetic rate. In the past five years, Perseus Mining acquired Orca Gold and Orecorp, Cardinal Resources was swallowed by Shandong Gold, Azumah Minerals was consumed by Ibaera Capital, Oklo Resources was picked up by B2Gold, Chesser Resources annexed by Fortuna and Tietto mopper up by Zhaojin Capital. And that's just on the ASX. In Toronto, SEMAFO merged with Endeavour, Fortuna collected Roxgold, Chifeng Jilong took over Golden Star Resources and AngloGold Ashanti made away with Centamin. SCP expects Perseus to be an active acquirer with its 17.8% stake in Predictive Discovery in focus. Chan also sees West African as a natural acquirer that would benefit from jurisdictional diversification now that its second mine build is done. SCP's other top candidates to be potential predators were Allied Gold Corporation, Robex Resources Inc (ASX:RXR) and Montage, but considered Resolute Mining (ASX:RSG), Orezone, Galiano Gold, Fortuna and the Chinese miners as other potentially active players. Montage, backed by Lundin and Zijin, has recently been busy building stakes in Côte d'Ivoire explorers Aurum Resources (ASX:AUE), African Gold (ASX:A1G) and Sanu Gold. Robex recently listed on the ASX and Orezone last week lodged a prospectus for a $75 million ASX listing, which would loosen its paper to pick up Aussie companies. The next generation 'We think the window is wide open for West African gold explorers, with the gold price consolidating above US$3000/oz, risk capital available for high quality management teams, and a competitive M&A environment for build-ready projects,' Chan said. In the report, Chan initiated coverage on Turaco, with a buy rating and $1.20 price target, and already covers Canada's Newcore Gold, which is advancing the Enchi project in Ghana. SCP expects that Turaco could become one of the next 150,000-200,000oz per annum producers in the region with a resource of 4-5Moz and permits and a final investment decision in hand by the end of next year. 'We also highlight our top picks of the explorers – Sanu in Guinea; Aurum, Awalé and Many Peaks in northern Côte d'Ivoire; and African Gold and Kobo in central Côte d'Ivoire,' Chan said. 'We think these companies have the right combination of ground, quality management and attractive locations to potentially make a discovery and move to production this cycle.' No resource? No worries Many Peaks Minerals (ASX:MPK) has the smallest market cap of the ASX-listed companies mentioned in the report and is the only one yet to report a resource. However, the company has been making rapid progress since acquiring the Ferké gold project from Turaco last year, which has caught the attention of SCP. Chan said the mineralisation at Many Peaks' Ouarigue target is hosted in a tonalite intrusive unit, which is a similar host setting to the multimillion-ounce Bankan and Fekola deposits. 'We like what we've seen so far for two reasons,' he said, pointing to the consistency of the tonalite mineralisation and the high-grade zone. On Tuesday, Many Peaks reported that drilling had extended mineralisation along strike and at depth, with increasing widths of the mineralised zones intersected reinforcing the potential for a bulk tonnage target. New results included 87m at 1.67g/t gold from 221m, including 29m at 3.46g/t gold; and 84m at 1.53g/t gold from 58m, including 2m at 18.1g/t gold and 8m at 2.11g/t gold, including 2m at 7.43g/t gold. On Wednesday, Many Peaks raised $13.5 million in a heavily supported private placement at 72c per share, a 5% premium to the company's 15-day volume-weighted average price. The funds will be used to complete drilling and studies for the preparation of an initial resource estimate. SCP forecasts an initial resource of 300,000-700,000oz of gold at 1-2g/t gold. 'That doesn't include the higher-grade zone – thus we think circa 500,000oz is a good target for an initial MRE at Ouarigue South with potential to expand along strike to the north and south.' At Stockhead, we tell it like it is. While Many Peaks Minerals is a Stockhead advertiser, it did not sponsor this article. Originally published as West Africa can't be ignored for investors looking to play the gold boom
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
New independent analysis reveals significant business benefits of implementing DeepSights by Market Logic
BERLIN, July 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly published Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study by Forrester Consulting shows a 411% return on investment (ROI) over three years for Market Logic Software's leading market intelligence and insights platform, DeepSights. The study, based on in-depth interviews with DeepSights customers across multiple industries, provides comprehensive assessment of the real-world impact of deploying the platform within enterprises. The Forrester Consulting analysis, commissioned by Market Logic, details a wide range of specific impacts to business performance and the transformation of insights' strategic role within enterprises. Across a three-year period, the benefits identified include: 411% ROI 97% reduction in the time taken to answer insights requests 3% revenue growth attributed directly to the use of DeepSights 27% reduction in market research costs >50% faster time to insights efficiency 50% cost avoidance for legacy IT solutions supporting insights "The true business impact of applying AI and market intelligence, effectively and consistently into business operations is all too often not measured", said Dirk Wolf, CEO of Market Logic. "The Forrester TEI study provides an invaluable framework for tracking the positive benefits and material impact to business performance that our use-case specific Gen AI solution DeepSights has delivered. From significant operational efficiency gains all the way to business growth we are proud to see our customers share details of tangible business outcomes." Specific calculations quoted in the study are derived by applying Forrester's TEI methodology to a composite organisation that is representative of the customers who participated in the analysis. To download a full copy of the TEI study visit this page. About Market Logic Software:Market Logic is the leading SaaS provider of market intelligence and insights solutions. Our market intelligence and insights platform, powered by our special purpose AI for Insights technology DeepSights, allows insights teams and business decisions makers to transform trusted insights into impact at scale and speed. We've helped hundreds of consumer-focused brands across the globe to transform into insights-driven businesses. Market leaders such as Unilever, Vodafone, Bayer, and Tesco are driving innovation and making smarter market moves with the support of Market Logic. Find out more at Image - - View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Market Logic Software Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Zawya
07-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Egypt's non-oil private sector slips in June, PMI below 50 for 4th consecutive month
Arab Finance: Egypt's headline seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 48.8 during June 2025 from 49.5 last May, according to the latest S&P Global PMI data. Non-oil private sector witnessed a moderate deterioration in operating conditions at the end of the first half (H1) of 2025, with the survey highlighting further demand weakness and decline in output. The new orders and output dropped further in June, sharply reducing purchasing activity in almost a year. Firms voiced limited optimism towards the year-ahead outlook, with activity expectations dropping to a historic low in June. Businesses cut their purchases for the fourth consecutive month, as output and new business volumes fell. Meanwhile, input cost pressures softened, slowing down the increase in output prices. Also, firms cut staffing for the fifth month running, though the rate of job shedding was fractional. David Owen, Senior Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, commented: "Although rates of contraction accelerated from the prior survey, they remained softer than their respective historic trends. Nevertheless, a faster drop in input purchases combined with stalling hiring activity suggests that firms expect demand to remain low and are thereby looking to make cost savings.' 'Overall expectations for future activity were the lowest ever recorded in June, with the respective index having hovered close to all-time lows in 2025 so far,' Owen added. He concluded: 'This downbeat sentiment reflects subdued hopes for order books, as well as concerns that geopolitical risks could cause greater economic disruption.' © 2020-2023 Arab Finance For Information Technology. All Rights Reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
