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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 27/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, May 27th, 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 May 27 and we’ve found 5 great press releases and 5 Stock Halts 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.

  • HLS Systems International – NASDAQ:HOLI $5.50
  • CNinsure Inc – NASDAQ:CISG $10.60
  • Command Center Inc – OTC BB:CCNI $0.07
  • Romarco Minerals – TSX-Venture:R $0.70
  • DOT Resources Inc – TSX-Venture:DOT $0.03
  • Tenajon Resources Corp -TSX-Venture:TJS.V Stock Halted (Pending News)
  • Rainy River Resources – TSX-Venture:RR Stock Halted (Pending News)
  • Mart Resources – TSX-Venture:MMT Stock Halted (Pending News)
  • Skybridge Development Corp – TSX-Venture:SBD Stock Halted (Pending News)
  • Golden Band Resources – TSX-Venture:GBN Stock Halted (Pending News)

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La Mancha Confirms the Presence of a Second Enriched Zone At the Hassai Property

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:30 PM on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Highlights from the press release include:

Key Points:

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Follow-up drilling below the Hadal Awatib pits returns high-grade gold and copper intersections
  • The enriched ore appears to be easily mineable by deepening the present pit
  • Drilling intersects Cu/Au-rich primary ore corresponding to the stringer zone of the VMS lens

BEST INTERSECTIONS INCLUDE:

  • 26 m at 1.19 g/t Au, 5.71% Cu and 1.17% Zn from 104 m(1)
  • 11 m at 19.24 g/t Au and 51.64 g/t Ag from 5 m(1)
  • 40 m at 0.68 g/t Au and 3.19% Cu from 10 m(1)
  • 11 m at 9.1 g/t Au and 99.27 g/t Ag from 1 m
  • 7 m at 21.53 g/t Au and 45.6 g/t Ag from 5 m
  • 3 m at 2.35 g/t Au and 13.27% Cu from 16 m
La Mancha IR Hub

La Mancha Profile

Posted in AGORACOM Clients (New), All Recent Posts | 2 Comments »

AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 26/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 26th, 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 May 26 and we’ve found 2 great press releases and 1 Stock Halt 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.

  • Capstone Mining Corp – TSX:CS $2.20
  • Park City Group Inc – OTC BB:PCYG $1.30
  • GFE Capital Corp – TSX-Venture:GFE-P Stock Halted

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 22/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Friday, May 22nd, 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 May 22 and we’ve found 2 great press releases and  Stock Halts 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.

  • AIM Health Group Inc. – TSX-Venture:AHG $0.07
  • NF Energy Saving Corporation of America – OTC BB:NFES $0.50

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Felony Criminal Charges For InvestorsHub.com Operator, Matthew Brown, In Penny Stock Scheme

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:55 AM on Thursday, May 21st, 2009

InvestorsHub.com operater Matthew Brown and 7 other participants were charged by the SEC for their involvement in manipulative trading schemes often timed the  to coincide with false or misleading press releases issued by companies to hype their stock. The four companies were GH3 International, Inc., Asia Global Holdings, Inc., Playstar Corp., and Xtreme Motorsports of California, Inc.

In addition, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware also announced felony criminal charges against 6 members of the group, including Matthew Brown.

WERE INVESTORSHUB.COM MEMBERS VICTIMS OF THESE SCHEMES?

Further details about participants and charges are outlined below – but the big question for AGORACOM is whether members of InvestorsHub.com were taken advantage of in these schemes?  We know from the SEC’s press release that:

“In the scheme involving Asia Global stock, the SEC alleges that Dynkowski
personally saw to it that the manipulative trading was coordinated with misleading
press releases from the company, and in some instances he wrote the press releases
for Asia Global himself. According to the SEC’s complaint, Dynkowski instructed
Brown on Aug. 24, 2006, to have Asia Global issue a press release hyping the
company’s second quarter 2006 financial results and to “make it sound ENORMOUS.”

Given the fact Brown operates a very popular penny stock site that provides “free” stock alerts and also features sponsored penny stock press releases on its front page, it isn’t a stretch to assume that his very own members may have been victims of these manipulative trading and press release schemes. We’ll look deeper into the SEC complaint for any details.

PARTICIPANTS CHARGED BY THE SEC

The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal district court in Delaware, charges seven others in addition to Brown:

* Pawel Dynkowski of Newark, Del.

* Jacob Canceli of Mission Viejo, Calif., who is a stock promoter.

* Gerard J. D’Amaro of Pompano Beach, Fla., who is a stock promoter.

* Joseph Mangiapane Jr. of Laguna Niguel, Calif, who was a registered representative at AIS Financial, Inc and is currently CEO of Rubicon Financial, Inc., which owned AIS Financial, Inc. during the relevant time period.

* Nathan M. Michaud of Boston, Mass., who is a web site designer.

* Marc J. Riviello of Redwood City, Calif., who was a registered representative at AIS Financial, Inc.

* Adam S. Rosengard of Voorhees, N.J., who was a student at the University of Delaware during the relevant time period.

PARTICIPANTS CHARGED BY THE U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware also today announced felony criminal charges against Dynkowski, Brown, Canceli, D’Amaro, Mangiapane, and Riviello.  Michaud the web designer and Rosengard the student were not charged.

CONCLUSION

Once again, we thank the SEC for aggressively going after penny stock fraudsters.  They are a scourge on an industry that is full of hard working and real small-cap companies that are trying to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Unfortunately, the pump and dump schemes often overshadow the efforts of real small-cap companies and often serve to set the identity of the space amongst investors.  The faster we get rid of them, the faster we can allow real small-cap companies to win or lose on their own merits, free of the baggage piled on by penny stock fraudsters.

Regards,
George

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd.

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:39 AM on Thursday, May 21st, 2009

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

Apwr

They are a provider of distributed power generation systems in China and a fast-growing manufacturer of wind turbines. In fact, they are the largest provider of distributed power generation systems in China and they built China’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility so this is a real serious company.

On April 9th, the Company announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2008.

Check out the full year results below!

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Revenue up 73.5% to $265 million
  • Net Income up 87.% to 28.5 million

MY COMMENTS:

On a diluted EPS basis, it’s just $1.01 per share compared to $2.23 last year. That’s roughly cut into half but that’s not because their operating results didn’t live up to standards, it’s because they actually increased their fully diluted share number from about 7 million shares to 28 million shares (or four-fold) so they still did pretty well all things considering.

Also, you have to take this into account; Cash position $43.5 million. If you divide that by the number of shares outstanding, they’ve got a $1.50 in cash. Why is that important you ask? The Company closed yesterday at 4.47, let’s just call it 4.50. Take away that $1.50 in cash you can buy this company for just $3.00 a share and given the fact that they came in at a $1.01 EPS, you’re getting this company at 3 times earnings unless there’s something in this closet that we don’t know about that’s happened over the last year, this is unbelievable value.

As always, this is my view in a snapshot.  It is intended to give you a running start into your research.  Now, you have to do your own due diligence to make sure the valuation is not impaired by other factors including balance sheet items, lawsuits or any other negative events.

If you have any comments, I’d love to see them below.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinse Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 21/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 21st, 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 May 21 and we’ve found 4 great press releases and 2  Stock Halts 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.

  • Gold Horse International – OTC BB:GHII $0.26
  • **Sage Gold – TSX-Venture:SGX $0.065
  • ECU Silver Mining – TSX:ECU $0.68
  • China Sky One Medical – OTC BB:CSKI $13.73
  • Aquiline Resources – TSX:AQI Stock Halted (Pending News)
  • Silverstone Resources Corp – TSX-Venture:SST Stock Halted (Pending News)

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 20/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, May 20th, 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 May 20 and we’ve found 3 great press releases and  Stock Halt 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.

  • Liberator Medical Holdings Inc. – OTC BB:LBMH $0.57
  • Vantex Resources – TSX-Venture:VTX $0.055
  • Grand Power Logistics Group – TSX-Venture:GPW $0.25

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Sino Clean Energy, Inc.

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:04 PM on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

Sclx

Sino Clean Energy is a U.S. publicly traded company and a China-based producer and distributor of coal-water mixture (”CWM”). Based in Shaanxi Province, Sino Clean Energy is the largest CWM producer in Northwestern China.

On May 18th, the Company announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Total Revenue increased 211.4% year-over-year to $77 million
  • Net Income increased 199% year-over-year to $1.6 million
  • As of March 31, 2009, the Company had $5,597,911 in cash and cash equivalents

MY COMMENTS:

On the other side of the balance sheet, total liabilities were $6,544,405, working capital was $4,492,540, and total shareholders’ equity was $16,272,187. The Company closed yesterday at $0.38

As always, this is my view in a snapshot.  It is intended to give you a running start into your research.  Now, you have to do your own due diligence to make sure the valuation is not impaired by other factors including balance sheet items, lawsuits or any other negative events.

If you have any comments, I’d love to see them below.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinse Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 19/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 19th, 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 May 19 and we’ve found 5 great press releases and  1 Stock Halt 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.

  • Sino Clean Energy – OTC BB:SCLX $0.38
  • KIT Digital – OTC BB:KDGL $8.50
  • Alegro Health Corp – TSX-Venture:AGO $0.35
  • Wanted Technologies Corporation – TSX-Venture:WAN $0.205
  • Terrane Metals Corp – TSX-Venture:TRX 0.24
  • GFE Capital Corp – TSX-Venture:GFE-P Stock Halted (Pending News)

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