To the best of my knowledge, Canada's population hasn't disappeared in the last 24 hours, but based on the complete lack of activity in the resource financing market, I am concerned I may have missed something.Wednesday had just one deal opening with expected proceeds of $700,00, and seven deal closings with gross proceeds of $12.8 million. In addition, two deals were updated.ClosingsFirst Nickel ...

When a billionaire gets pied in the face during a parliamentary hearing, one cannot expecting anything more exciting to happen that day, including the announcing of private placements. On Tuesday the resource financing market went up slightly, though continued to move at a molasses-like pace.Tuesday saw a total of six deal openings with expected proceeds of $26.2 million, and two deal closings wit ...

Surprisingly, the heat wave across North America has not pushed brokers into their air conditioned offices to do work. Monday was just as slow as last week, and the Canadian resource financing market remains all but stalled.There were four deal openings with expected proceeds of $21.8 million. Additionally there were seven deal closings with gross proceeds of $17.1 million and one private placemen ...

The financing market was pretty bad on Friday, but its quality was probably better than that of the 24 Sussex Drive, which has been said to have failing heat and the need to use pans to capture leaks. Moody's may not be threatening to downgrade the Canadian government, but I'd watch out if they are feeling unable to pay for 'urgent' renovations.There were four deal openings with expected proceeds ...

It appears with the Stampede in full force, brokers have gone to Calgary and forgotten about their day jobs. While slightly better than Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday was still a slow day for the resource financing market.There were five deal openings with expected proceeds of $35.2 million, five deal closings with gross proceeds of $46.45 million, and three private placement updates.OpeningsSandst ...