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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 5/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 5th, 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 5 and we’ve found 3 great press release and 3 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.

  • Blackstone Ventures Inc – TSX-Venture:BLV $0.08
  • Stornoway Diamonds – TSX-Venture:SWY $0.165
  • China Energy Recovery – OTC BB:CGYV $1.95
  • Result Energy Inc – TSX-Venture:RTE (Halted Pending News)
  • Tenajon Resources Corp – TSX-Venture:TJS (Halted Pending News)
  • Alegro Health Corp – TSX-Venture:AGO (Halted Pending News)

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: New Oriental Education and Technology Group

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:24 AM on Monday, May 4th, 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

New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc – (NYSE: EDU)

New Oriental is the largest provider of private educational services in China based on the number of program offerings, total student enrollments and geographic presence. New Oriental offers a wide range of educational programs, services and products consisting primarily of English and other foreign language training, test preparation courses for major admissions and assessment tests in the United States, the PRC and Commonwealth countries, primary and secondary school education, development and distribution of educational content, software and other technology, and online education.

On April 21st, the Company announced their results for the third fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2009.

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Total net revenues increased by 36.1% year-over-year to US$65.4 million.
  • Non-GAAP increased by 4.3% year-over-year to US$14.5 million however, if you go according to GAAP, the net income decreased 10% year-over-year.
  • NON-GAAP from income operations increased 2.4% however once again, if you look at the GAAP income, it actually decreased by 14.7% year-over-year to US$8.7 million
    .

MY COMMENTS:

I’d imagine this is going to be a growing field for the next several years. The Company closed on April 20th at $51.25

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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New Dawn Mining (ND:TSX) Resumes Full-Scale Gold Mine Operations

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:02 AM on Monday, May 4th, 2009

New Dawn’s Turk Mine in Zimbabwe Resumes Full-Scale Mine Operating Program

I’m very proud to announce that AGORACOM client, New Dawn Mining, is back to full gold mining operations on their Turk Mine in Zimbabwe. This is a company that produced ~ 8,650 ounces and $US 7.5 million in revenue in 2008.

Highlights from the press release include:

Key Points:

  • New Dawn’s 100% wholly-owned Turk Mine in Zimbabwe has resumed full-scale mining operations
  • The current initial production rate of 250 tonne targeted to rise to 400 tonnes per day to achieve a production target of 1,150 to 1,200 ounces of gold per month at a average cash cost of US$425 to US$450 per ounce
  • Total existing capacity at Turk Mine is currently rated at 400 tonnes per day, but current expansion projects, which are nearing completion, will increase existing capacity to 650 tonnes per day. New Dawn plans for further production increases every 6 to 9 months thereafter to maximize existing capacity
  • During the restarted mine development program, which was reported on 26th February 2009, until the commencement of full-scale mining operations in early May 2009, New Dawn’s gold sales totaled approximately US$1,300,000

  • 11 years of proven and probable mine reserves at October 2009 production rates
  • Two recent NI 43-101 reports documented an aggregate of 969,546 ounces of gold reserves and resources grading between 2.9-6.1 g/t, with additional inferred mineral resources of 355,873 ounces of gold grading between 3.90 – 5.91 g/t.

New Dawn Mining IR Hub

New Dawn Mining Profile

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 4/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Monday, May 4th, 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 4 and we’ve found 2 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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You Have No Limits But Your Own. Unbelievable Video Of What Is Possible

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:33 PM on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

For those of you that believe you have limits – and especially for those who think you don’t.  Watch the video that has YouTube abuzz …. and then go test your limits again.

Hat tip to David Cohen.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (May 1/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Friday, May 1st, 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 1 and we’ve found 4 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.

  • Diversinet Corp TSX-Venture:DIV $0.50
  • Running Fox Resources TSX-Venture:RUN $0.16
  • Second Wave Petroleum TSX-Venture:SCS $0.70
  • Forsys Metals Corp TSX:FSY $5.15

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China’s Renewable Energy Investments Could Pay Off For These 3 Companies

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:31 PM on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

China’s unprecedented economic growth over the past 30 years has come at a huge cost to the environment and this is no surprise for most of you who live in urbanized areas.  In fact , 20 of the 30 most polluted cities in the world are in China. 400,000 people die of pollution related diseases each year. One third of Chinese territory is affected by acid rain and approximately 70% of its water supply is polluted.

The damage has not only been to the air the Chinese breath or the water in their rivers, but also to its reputation across the world. But there are signs that China is serious about tackling pollution to prove to the world that it can develop while causing less damage to the environment, plus giving a better quality of life to its citizens. $184 billion is being devoted to China’s renewable energy markets – set to become the largest in the world. And yet if that wasn’t enough, the chief economist from Deutche Bank predicts that China will invest an astounding $754 billion over the next 36 months to reduce the magnitude of this growing, enormous problem.

POTENTIAL LARGE SECULAR GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

If that plays out correct, it will create one of the largest secular growth opportunities the country has seen aside from massive infrastructure and real estate development which have moved the country to Third in the World according to GDP. China is currently the world’s biggest consumer of coal, the cheapest yet most polluting source of energy. The country uses a quarter of the world’s coal reserves and depends on it to provide more than two thirds of its energy needs, while 2 new coal-fired power plants come on line each week.

The rapid growth has also altered old Chinese habits that used to be environmentally friendly. As soon as you walk out from your hotel onto the street of Beijing you realize that the typical image of Chinese city streets being packed with bicycle-riding commuters is becoming a thing of the past. During the first quarter, China surpassed the US with the number of vehicles sold and for the first time surpassed 1 million vehicles in March.

Pollution problems in China are estimated to cost the country more than $200 billion annually, and it should be no surprise that pollution is widely considered to be the #1 challenge to China’s sustained economic growth. World governments are fast adopting carbon standards which will penalize businesses for producing greenhouse gases. China’s Eleventh Five Year Plan calls for more than $190 billion in investment by industrial companies for cleanup. As a result of this focus, China’s environmental protection industry is growing at an annual rate of at least 23%, substantially faster than China’s normalized GDP growth (forecast for 2009 at 7%).

COMPANIES THAT MAY BENEFIT FROM CHINA’S MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN GREEN ENERGY

(more…)

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Apr 30/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Thursday, April 30th, 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 April 30 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.

  • Golden Goose Resources – TSX-Venture:GGR $0.395
  • Pro-Tech Industries – OTC BB:MMBW $3.15
  • Aria International Holdings – OTC BB:ARAHE $0.105

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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: China Carbon Graphite

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:11 AM on Wednesday, April 29th, 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

China Carbon Graphite, Inc. (OTCBB: CGYV)

China Carbon Graphite Group, Inc. engages in the production of graphite products such as graphite electrodes, fine grain graphite and high purity graphite. The company is the largest wholesale supplier of fine grain and high purity graphite in China and one of the nation’s top overall producers of carbon and graphite products.

On April 20th, the company announced record sales and earnings for 2008.

Read Full Press Release

China Stocks TV Segment

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Revenues up 7.67% to $27.3 million.
  • Gross profit up 36.41% to $6.7 million.
  • Net income up 11.08% to $3.98 million
  • However, they did have a one time non-cash deemed preferred stock dividend about $855,000 so that takes net income down to $3.13 million or $0.21 per share.

MY COMMENTS:

Great number when you consider the fact they closed on April 17th at 0.59.  You’ve got a company here trading at essentially 3 times earnings, representing excellent valuations

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 (Apr 29/09)

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 29th, 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 April 29 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.

  • China Gengsheng Minerals – OTC BB:CHGS $0.75
  • Kirkland Lake Gold – TSX:KGI $8.69
  • Capstone Mining Corp – TSX:CS $1.85

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