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Prosperity Minerals

October 2006

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  • Epic Code:
  • PMHL
  • Price:
  • 126p
Less than four months after floating on AIM Prosperity Minerals has unexpectedly announced that profits will fall below expectations for the current year ending 31 March, the shortfall entirely due to its iron ore trading business. Prosperity has managed to come up with four reasons for this, including higher than expected iron ore contract prices, a glut of steel flooding the market in response to Government austerity measures (to slow inflation), a sudden rise in freight costs and unusually bad weather. Prosperity claims that conditions will improve in H2 and unusually its Chairman and CEO, David Wong, has announced his intention to “buy shares in the market to emphasise his confidence in the business.” < ...

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