About this content About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple of years freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, the London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup ...

About this content About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple of years freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, the London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup ...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, ETR:FB2A, SWX:FB) said it has fixed a "technical issue" which led to its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram not working. Users across the globe were unable to use the apps or the websites for around two hours on Tuesday. While people were able to access and log in to the platforms, many suffered error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds. Meta said it was sorry for the issues and stated that it had attempted to resolve the problem as fast as possible. T ...

About this content About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple of years freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, the London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup ...

About this content About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple of years freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, the London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup ...

About this content About Emily Jarvie Emily began her career as a political journalist for Australian Community Media in Hobart, Tasmania. After she relocated to Toronto, Canada, she reported on business, legal, and scientific developments in the emerging psychedelics sector before joining Proactive in 2022. She brings a strong journalism background with her work featured in newspapers, magazines, and digital publications across Australia, Europe, and North America, including The Examiner, The Advocate, ...

Liberum has raised its target price for Emmerson by more than 50% following its latest update from the Khemisset potash project in Morocco. Emmerson is developing the 100%-owned Khemisset, on which broker Liberum expects an updated feasibility study (FS) to be completed in late 2024 or early 2025. Most recently, it published a scoping study on KMP (Khemisset Multi-mineral Process), a transformational new processing route that significantly reduces environmental impact while enhancing project economics. Acco ...

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) said diabetes patients have been able to prevent the onset of chronic kidney disease in trials of semaglutide, which it sells under the Ozempic and Wegovy brands. The Danish drug giant hailed the headline results from its FLOW trial which reduced kidney disease progression, major adverse cardiovascular events and death by 24% compared to placebo. Around 40% of people with type 2 diabetes have chronic kidney disease. It stopped the trials on 3,533 people a full year before it was mean ...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL, ETR:APC) shares suffered another blow on Tuesday, opening 2.2% lower after Counterpoint Research flagged a worrying decline in iPhone demand in China. Apple’s iPhone struggled during the first six weeks of the year due to resurgent competition from domestic competitor Huawei, with sales down 24%, said researchers. Huawei shocked the international technology community last September when a breakdown of its flagship Mate 60 handset unveiled a technology stack significantly more advance ...

Tesla has temporarily shut down its EV gigafactory at Gruenheide near Berlin after an arson attack. In an escalation of simmering local discontent about the plant, an electricity pylon was set alight though the fire was contained before it reached the plant itself. An unconfirmed report by the BZ newspaper said that the fire was started by environmental activists and carried a warning that a bomb had also been planted. According to Reuters, a far-left militant group known as “Volcano Group” claimed responsi ...