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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Feb 17/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 17 and we’ve found 7 great press release and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Pacific BioMetrics – OTC BB:PBME $0.50
  • China Gengsheng Minerals – OTC BB:CHGS $0.70
  • Aura Systems – OTC BB:AUSI $0.70
  • Rolling Rock – TSX-V:RLL $0.07
  • Grayd Resource – TSX-V:GYD $0.40
  • Saxon Oil Company – TSX-V:SXN, BERLIN:OVG $0.155
  • InterCitic Minerals – TSX:ICI $0.445

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Chinese Public Company Statistics

Posted by AGORACOM at 4:10 PM on Monday, February 16th, 2009

Good afternoon to you all.  I’m at the ROTH OC Conference waiting for the China Chairman’s Workshop to begin and there’s a great slide up with details about China based – US listed companies that I’d like to share with you.

  • There are approximately 500 companies listed in the US with major operations in China or Hong Kong

Out of the 500 companies:

  • Over 90% initially began trading on the OTCBB…Today
    • 53 listed on NYSE
    • 95 listed on Nasdaq
    • 17 listed on AMEX
    • 229 listed on OTCBB
    • 108 listed on Pink Sheets
  • 261 have trailing P/E data
  • 33% have P/E < 3x
  • 38% have P/E < 4x
  • 289 with price movement data dropped 64% on average between 1/1/08 and 1/16/09
  • 431 have last 3-month daily trading volume data, 44% have trading volume < 20k, 24%with trading volume < 100k, 32% with trading volume between 20k and 100k.

Hope you find this data and information to be helpful.  Stay tuned for more info as I’ll be blogging the workshop.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Feb 13/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Friday, February 13th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 13 and we’ve found 5 great press release and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • **China ACM – OTC BB:CADC $1.45
  • Winner Medical Group – OTC BB:WMDG $1.00
  • Intelligroup – OTC BB:ITIG $1.45
  • CAE Inc – TSX:CAE Halted (Pending News)
  • Kingsmil Capital Ventures – TSX-V:KCV.P Halted (Request of Company Pending News)

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AGORACOM Sponsors 21st Annual ROTH OC Growth Stock Conference

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:53 PM on Thursday, February 12th, 2009

AGORACOM is proud to announce we will be sponsoring the ROTH 21st Annual OC Growth Stock Conference in California, February 16-18.  This is our second consecutive sponsorship of a ROTH Conference, a testament to the quality of these conferences.  In November, we sponsored the Roth Capital Partners China/Vegas Conference.

The ROTH event is designed to provide investors with a unique opportunity to gain insight into leading companies across all sectors. Additionally the conference we will be hosting a special track dedicated to companies based in China.

The 2008 conference attracted over 1,000 institutional investors from across the globe and over 360 presenting companies from the U.S, China and India. They also hosted over 3,000 one-on-one and small group meetings during the event.  As such, we look forward to a great 2009 event.

This conference is by invitation only, so contact ROTH directly for additional details at (800) 933-6830 or e-mail: [email protected]

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Feb 12/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 12 and we’ve found 3 great press release and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

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Seabridge Gold ($SA – NYSE) ($SEA-TSX) 30-Second Biz TV Ad

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:35 PM on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

A video is worth ten thousand words, especially when you’re looking for a quality gold company to invest in as gold breaches $945.  We produced the following Seabridge Gold TV ad for BNN in Canada and Bloomberg TV / CNBC TV in the United States (via Dish Network).  It started running about 3 weeks ago

Have a look at the following and let me know what you think – of the company, not me.

Yes, Seabridge Gold is a client but you can’t pay me enough to talk about a company I don’t believe in.  These numbers speak for themselves.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Feb 11/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 11 and we’ve found 6 great press release and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • Colossus Minerals – TSX:CSI $1.60
  • New Millenium Capital Corp – TSX-V:NML $0.40
  • MDU Communications International – OTC BB:MDTV $0.22
  • Brooklyn Ventures Corp – TSX-V:BVC Halted (Pending News)
  • Vendtek Systems – TSX-V:VSI Halted (Pending News)
  • Victoria Gold Corp – TSX-V:VIT Halted (Pending News)

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“Bailout Nation” Book Dropped by McGraw-Hill To Protect Its S&P Ratings Division From Damaging Analysis

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:46 AM on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

The Wall Street credit-crisis “CYA” playbook continues to be run by those who do not want to accept their portion of the blame.  Specifically, Portfolio.com ran this story titled Mcgraw Hill Drops Book Critical of S&P. What makes the story even more interesting is the fact that it was written by my friend Barry Ritholtz – who is frequently listed as one of the world’s top financial bloggers and often quoted right here on AGORACOM.

The book was so highly anticipated by Wall Street that a month away from publication, 22,000 copies had already been pre-sold.  Wow.

So why did McGraw Hill drop it? According to Portfolio, MH provided the following explanation:

McGraw Hill spokesman Steven Weiss this afternoon said the publisher dropped
the book because of a conflict with Ritholtz over editing, not because of his
criticism of S&P. “The material needed extensive corroboration across a range of
topics. We could not agree on unified approach with the author for resolving
the issues,” Weiss said. He denied that the publisher dropped the book because of what Ritholtz had written about S&P.

OK, anything is possible.  However, given the fact that Barry Ritholtz has both the smarts and the street cred that comes with the PYMWYMI (Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is) nature of bloggers, I side with him when he provides the following retort from his blog:

Really? You cannot verify these footnotes?

As you can see, the overwhelming majority of the footnotes come with URL
included. So I guess if you lack an internet connection or are unfamiliar with Google,
you might have trouble corroborating the contents of the book. But for everyone else
over the age of 6 years old who is possession of any IQ score better than 75, it really
should not be a problem to accomplish.

But to prove it even further, I challenge any of the McGraw Hill editors or
publishers (or any of the editorial staff) to take a polygraph/lie detector test
– at my expense.

If the poly proves anything I said was false or anything Mr Weiss said was true, I will
let them edit the book however they want, or kill it altogether and not publish anywhere
else.

I’m sold because whenever I’ve had righteousness on my side in the past, I too have challenged people to polygraph tests at my expense. I severely doubt a blogger of Barry’s stature is going to put his reputation on the line at his expense.

CONCLUSION

McGraw Hill blew it.  Sure, they were in a tough position but they put themselves there when they approached Barry to write about the bailout / crisis in the first place.

Clearly, MH publisher Herb Schaffner didn’t see the connection from the outset.  By the time the lightbulb went on and they needed Barry to tone it down, Barry advised “Sorry, Herb, but I don’t do diplomacy.” Barry has 34,000 subscribers (not a typo) for a reason  – he tells it like it is.

At the end of the day, MH made a massive tactical error when it dropped the book.  In this Obama / Geithner / Stimulus package environment, Barry’s criticism of the S&P probably wouldn’t have got much media play.  As such, MH would have been better off simply publishing it as is and letting the S&P stuff blend in with other issues raised by Barry in the book.

Now, S&P has become the book and MH has become the story….. and Barry has an even bigger stage to speak from.  God help those guys.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM 100 Client (Nayarit Gold; NYG-TSXV) Intersects Significant Gold

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:37 AM on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

More great news coming out of Canadian junior gold companies in general and AGORACOM 100 clients in particular.  Today, Nayarit Gold announced significant gold intersections. As the company’s IR firm we can’t use many more adjectives but the results are definitely worthy of review.  For your convenience, we’ve included some highlights below:

  • Nayarit Gold intersects 31.08 metres of 10.5 g/t gold and 333 g/t silver, or 16 g/t gold equivalent, or 960 g/t silver equivalent
  • Additional intersection of 8.7 metres of 11.7 g/t gold and 1,304 g/t silver, or 33.4 g/t gold equivalent, or 2,006 g/t silver equivalent

Flagship Property

The Orion Project lies in the Sierra Madre Occidental, a prolific mining district in northern Mexico. The project hosts a series of old high-grade silver and gold mines, all of which lie in an east-west vein system. This vein system may be an unrecognized bonanza silver-gold district, similar to other Ag-Au bonanza epithermal vein districts of Western Mexico, such as Tayoltita District. Early results from Phase I drilling on the Animas Vein are pointing to bonanza potential. These types of mineral systems can extend for considerable distances and up to 1000 metres depth.

  • Completed $10m financing – (July/08)
  • Phase II Drill Program in progress
  • 30,000m of drilling by Q1/09
  • Targeting resource calculation in Q1/09 and scoping study in Q2/09

View Complete Press Release

Go To Nayarit IR HUB

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Feb 10/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the breaking small-cap and micro-cap financial news we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s February 10 and we’ve found 9 great press release and stock halts from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for small-cap and micro-cap financial news.

If you are new to the show, it is a daily, fast-paced, edgy report that we put out at or before the open everyday that strictly reports on the best small cap and micro cap news of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch AGORACOM TV right from our home page .

If you miss an episode or want to search for your company in our archive, you can visit our industry leading Small-Cap Podcast site at any time:

If you want to subscribe to our Small-Cap RSS Feed or download our podcast everyday via iTunes, or your favourite podcatcher, just use the following:

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list compelling summaries for over 85 great small-cap and micro-cap companies that you can sort by exchange and industry to suit your personal investing tastes.

TODAY’S SMALL-CAP AND MICRO-CAP BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS BEFORE THE OPEN

Our daily show focuses on content over form so that you can get profitable information into your hands as fast as possible. The same holds true for these entries in our small-cap, micro-cap news blog, where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing, so don’t give me a hard time!

Now, onto our show notes for the day.

** Denotes an AGORACOM Client. AGORACOM TV Only Reports News From AGORACOM Clients That Meets The Same Newsworthy Threshold Of All Other Press Releases.

  • **Nayarit Gold – TSX-V:NYG $0.50
  • Merrex Gold – TSX-V:MXI $0.22
  • Dynacor Gold Mines – TSX:DNG $0.14
  • Artificial Life – OTC BB:ALIF $1.35
  • GreenChek Technology – OTC BB:GCHK $0.41
  • Tiomin Resources – TSX:TIO Halted (Pending News)
  • Tusk Energy Corporation – TSX:TSK Halted (Pending News)
  • Advitech Inc – TSX-V:AVI Halted (Pending News)

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