By Travis McPherson of CEO.CA

Agnico Eagle Mines has agreed to buy Vancouver-based junior Cayden Resources (CYD:TSXV) for $205 million in cash and stock in an announcement after market today that may come as a shock to Goldcorp.

Under the agreement, which is supported by Cayden’s management and board representing 19.8% of the votes, each Cayden shareholder will be entitled to 0.09 of an Agnico Eagle share and CDN$0.01 in cash.  Agnico Eagle (AEM:TSX) closed today at $37.08 per share (market cap of nearly $8 billion).

The offer represents $3.79 per share and a 42.5% premium to Cayden’s 30-day VWAP.

Investors of Cayden’s last financing in April ($9 million bought deal at $1.70 per share) are happy.  They are up 123% in just 5 months.

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By Rachel Fox of FoxOnStocks.com

What is Alibaba?? Should it be the one company to have the largest IPO in history?

Don’t worry, before writing this blog, I wasn’t sure of what Alibaba was myself, though I had heard a little about it being China’s biggest e-commerce site.

After hearing it was next in line to having the world’s largest IPO at $20B, I had a feeling there was more to it than just an e-commerce site and decide look further into the company and its future stock.

Once I did some research on the company, I found that Alibaba is all of the above:

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By Matt Lacoco

of Matt's Awesome Trading Blog:Not a trader, just do it for money

Trading for a living is fundamentally different from retirement investing, or trading for supplemental-income.  There’s actually a little bit of pressure that goes along with attempting to make your living from trading, especially if you’re not starting with a huge wad of cash.  So if you want to trade for a living, and you don’t have a gazillion dollars to fund your account with, read on to learn a few of the principles that I have used in order to make, and sustain a decent living trading currency.

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By Mike Berry of Disruptive Discoveries Journal

In July 2008, then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson touched off the greatest banking crisis of our generation stretching back to the 1930’s.   On Sunday, July 20th 2008 before the markets opened in Asia, the Treasury Secretary of the United States stepped in to guarantee the US bond portfolio owned by China.  Earlier that same day he had commented on national TV,

“I think it's going to be months that we're working our way through this period, clearly months. Of course the list [of difficulties] is going to grow longer given the stresses we have in the marketplace, given the housing correction - but again, it's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.”

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