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Diabetes Care: Global Investing Opportunities

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:23:59 GMT

The American Diabetes Association estimates that there are currently 23.6 million diabetics in the U.S. (7.8% of the total population, including 17.9 million diagnosed cases, 5.7 million undiagnosed, and 57 million pre-diabetics. Diabetes results in an estimated $174 billion in costs from diagnosed cases of diabetes in the U.S. (2007).[More...]

CSL Ltd. (ASX:CSL): First To Begin Swine Flu Vaccine Trial

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:28:36 GMT

CSL Limited (ASX:CSL) (PINK:CMXHY) is expected to begin the first human trials for a swine influenza (flu) vaccine on 7/22/09 in Australia. The seven-week trial will inject healthy volunteers age 18-64 as deaths, infections, and media coverage of the H1N1 virus gain momentum across the globe. The seven-week study will be closely monitored to measure the immune responses of the subjects in order to determine the optimal antigen (the substance which elicits an immune response and thus protection f (...)[More...]

Bullish For Tuesday

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:11:02 GMT

We had a lot of breakouts today, and the market looks ready for another leg higher. Of the major index charts, QQQQ stands out as perhaps the most bullish: Of course, that point could be argued, since a wide range of sectors show clearly bullish patterns. Given that many charts are extended, I went looking for the best potential sectors for tomorrow. The semiconductors look quite[More...]

Sign's Of Recovery in Global Basic Materials Trade?

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:01:00 GMT

FT Alphaville is reporting that the Baltic Dry index (BDI), widely considered a benchmark index for global trade in dry bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal and iron, jumped almost 15% to 1,316 points on Wednesday. the biggest daily increase in almost 25 years, on signs of a recovery in the raw materials trade. The signs of life are in Capsizes, the largest vessels, as Chinese steel makers buy more iron ore from Australia and Brazil. The index of course is still nowhere near last year's all-time high 11,793 points, but has already rebounded 98.5% from its December 22-year low of 663 points. Japan's Kawasaki KK (9107.T) upticked on the news, while The Australian is reporting that iron ore majors are confident they have spotted a bottom in prices. "Fortescue executive director Graeme Rowley reflected incipient confidence within Fortescue's major iron ore cousins, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, that the spot market is again on the[More...]

An 11-Month Analysis of Coal Price, KOL, USO, and UNG

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:48:00 GMT

The accompanying chart (click to enlarge) includes an 11-month analysis of Central Appalachian Coal Futures (NYMEX: QL), Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Oil Fund (USO), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and S&P 500 (SPY). The prices for coal futures from other areas of the world were excluded in the chart analysis to avoid congestion from too many data points and since the correlation is high (around 95%) to QL. An 11-month analysis was chosen since KOL began trading in[More...]

Analysis Of Global Coal Prices And Energy Commodity Funds

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:09:00 GMT

The accompanying 5-month chart presents an analysis of the global price of near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) compared to the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG), and U.S. Oil Fund (USO). Although this is not a huge amount of historical data, the past five months presents an[More...]

A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:09:00 GMT

The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world. Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance[More...]

Helicon Announces SFDA Approval for ReCell®

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:22:00 GMT

Helicon Group Limited (ASX: HCG) of Australia received SFDA approval for ReCell®, a skin regeneration concept and device. Before...[More...]

SciGen Buys China Rights to Generex Oral Insulin Spray

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:33:55 GMT

SciGen, Ltd. (ASX: SIE), a Singapore company that trades in Australia, has licensed the China rights to Oral-lyn™,...[More...]

NASDAQ Technical Picture - Tipping Point or Anniversary Anxiety

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:15:31 GMT