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Gold Feels Like A Bubble... What Do I Do?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:46:00 GMT

By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud "We made three thousand dollars just yesterday in gold," a family member told me this week. "I know your friend Porter says buy. And I haven't heard you tell anyone to sell. But it's starting to feel like the dot-com days... I'm getting worried."[More...]

Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CLDX): Plenty of Cash and Pending Clinical Catalysts

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:19:35 GMT

At the beginning of the month, Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CLDX) announced the successful completion of its acquisition of CuraGen (formerly CRGN), which strengthens the balance sheet (approx. $85 million in cash / equivalents) while expanding the pipeline and increasing the expected news flow of clinical data catalysts for the combined entity[More...]

FDA Calendar Extreme Trades: 85 Single Digit Stocks

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:29:25 GMT

The BioMedReports.com FDA Calendar database includes over 400 entries of (1) pending new drug, biological agent, or medical device new product decisions at the FDA (e.g. NDA, BLA, 510k, PMA, sNDA, and sBLA filings); (2) pending new submissions to the FDA; (3) pending complete response letter (CRL) re-submissions to the FDA; and (4) pending clinical trial results.[More...]

Semiconductor Industry - Industry Outlook

Fri, 08 May 2009 13:45:43 GMT

The metrics determining the 2009 outlook for the Semiconductor industry as a whole has been as volatile as ever. Pricing (ASP Erosion) and inventory buildup in the latter half of 2008 has plagued the industry and companies, particularly in the Specialized (SP) and Integrated Circuits (IC) areas, are still having a difficult time managing inventory to bring utilization rates to an optimal level for margin maintenance and growth. The peak season for NAND flash in 2008 only lasted till the month of October, and prices for 16Gb and 32Gb chips fell again in November. Price adjustments during July and August of 2008 helped demand recover in October, but the poor showing of consumer electronics sales during the holiday season, aggravated by the global financial crisis, is expected to shrink demand for NAND flash again in 2009. Within the large-size shipments, IT applications dropped 7% sequentially in Q4:08 to 19.2 million units due to inventory adjustment[More...]

Automotive Replacement & Accessories Continues To Be A Winning Theme

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:11:00 GMT

As the American consumer weakens, and in my estimation - shall remain weak for an extended duration - we put the spotlight on the Automotive Replacement & Accessories sector a few months back (Jan 15, 2009: Thesis - Automotive Replacement and Accessories) Since then, all four names we mentioned in the piece, even the major laggard of the group have surged despite a very bad January and February for the market. Autozone (AZO) [More...]

Some Long Picks

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:24:00 GMT

I added some long exposure toward the end of the day yesterday. Premarket today, futures look like they will open higher. I am likely to have shorter time frames with long trades, given overhead resistance on major index charts. Here are some charts of current holdings (see yesterday's post): - ISIL [More...]

Choice Point Behaviour In Asset Allocation

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:38:00 GMT

I have been attending quant lectures on asset allocation and reading books on endowments, family offices and hedge funds. One of the interesting things about throwing up historical charts and showing X% return over the last Y years for an asset class or allocation is the assumption that it can be used to to justify future "correct" behaviour. Correct behaviour is[More...]

Expectations Are High For Best Buy

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:37:00 GMT

Since Circuit City collapsed late last year, the conventional wisdom has viewed this as a boon to Best Buy (BBY). In all likelihood, this is the case as the two were in direct competition for consumer electronics retail dollars. However, the market has already priced in quite a bit of this market share grab, as the stock is up more than 30% since Circuit City shut its doors for good on March 8th. In addition to the more than 30% gain in just over two weeks, analysts have become more positive on BBY in the last few weeks. According to Yahoo! Finance, in the[More...]

Some Ideas On Nationalization And TARP

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:54:00 GMT

Turn the news on or read a Roubini blog and you'll never hear the end of how we must nationalize our banks to get out of the mess we are in. Even Krugman is saying Nationalize! Stepping away from the immediately obvious deficit of shareholder equity in these insolvent bank institutions, it is clear two things are happening independent of the status of bank valuation (yet perpetuating the feedback loop of insolvency): credit is tight, and asset values are thus forced down. A true nationalization of a top 5 bank (or two), where debtholders are wiped out, would be less than optimal considering many debtholders are generally other banking institutions. Here counterparty risk (ie AIG) is revisited. Why force the[More...]

Government Stimulus And The Venture Industry: It's Not The Bankroll, But the Chip Size

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:57:00 GMT

What is the optimal size at which to do real venture capital, the kind of investing that nurtures tomorrow's Googles, Amazons, Ciscos and Microsofts, as well as the loads of applications and technologies that add real value to existing companies and customers? The answer to this question has undoubtedly changed over time, as the cost of enabling technologies has plummeted and massively scalable businesses can be built for a fraction of the cost of even 10 years ago. But still the debate rages on, particularly given the problems of the large-scale branded venture players and worries over a sharp drop in the availability of start-up capital. The topic has recently bled into the political arena, with President Obama's tech-friendly bias and the hundreds of billions of dollars going towards[More...]

Optimal Group Announces Share Consolidation

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:53:00 GMT

MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- -- 08/26/09 -- Optimal Group Inc. today announced the consolidation of its issued and outstanding Class 'A' shares.[More...]

Optimal Group Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:56:00 GMT

Optimal Group Inc. today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. All references are in U.S. dollars.[More...]

Dow to Divest Ownership in OPTIMAL Group of Companies to PETRONAS for $660 Million

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:47:00 GMT

MIDLAND, Mich. and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Dow Chemical Company and Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) today announced that they have reached an agreement for Dow's Union Carbide Corporation subsidiary to sell its entire shares of ownership in the OPTIMAL Group of Companies (OPTIMAL) to PETRONAS for $660 million.
PETRONAS would fund this acquisition through internally generated funds.
Dow and PETRONAS have agreed to enter into a commercial supply agreement allowing the two companies to continue serving the current customer base with products manufactured by OPTIMAL.

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Timeless Tale of "Bear Crimbo" Brought to Life by Award-Winning WowWee Alive(TM) Technology

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:57:00 GMT

HONG KONG, CHINA -- -- 06/02/09 -- Editors note: Two photos are included with this press release on Marketwire's website.[More...]

WowWee: World's First Outdoor Projection Art Festival Goes Pico with Cinemin(TM) Swivel

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT

HONG KONG, CHINA -- -- 05/13/09 -- Editors Note: 5 photos are included with this press release.[More...]

Optimal Group Announces First Quarter 2009 Results

Fri, 08 May 2009 20:50:00 GMT

Optimal Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OPMR) today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.
All references are in U.S. dollars.
Revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009, net of other revenues not associated with the Company's core operations, were $2.1 million compared to $4.9 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008.

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Optimal Group Announces 2008 Year-End Results

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- -- 03/13/09 -- Optimal Group Inc. today announced its financial results for the year-ended December 31, 2008. All references are in U.S. dollars.[More...]

Optimal Group Announces Agreement for the Disposition of a Portfolio of Merchant Processing

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:40:00 GMT

MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- -- 02/03/09 -- Optimal Group Inc. today announced that Optimal Payments Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Optimal Group, has entered into an option agreement with United Bank Card, Inc., giving to Optimal Payments the right to cause United Bank Card to purchase, and giving to United Bank Card the right to cause Optimal Payments to sell, a portfolio of residual payments from merchants processing credit card-present transactions. The portfolio represents in excess of 5,000 merchant locations.[More...]