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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 12/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:54 AM on Friday, December 12th, 2008

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 December 12 and we’ve found 3 great press releases 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.

  • Victoria Gold Corp – TSX-V:VIT $0.20
  • Solex Resources – TSX-V:SOX $0.035
  • JJR II Acquisition – TSX-V:JJR Halted

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 11/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:49 AM on Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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 December 11 and we’ve found 5 great press releases 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.

  • Tyhee Development Corp – TSX-V:TDC $0.18
  • Loon Energy – TSX-V:LEY Halted
  • Patricia Mining Corp – TSX-V:PAT Halted
  • Chalk Media Corp – TSX-V:CKM Halted
  • Northern Star Mining Corp – TSX-V:NSM Halted

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First Ever Gold “Backwardation” Could Signal Price Spike As COMEX Runs Out Of Gold

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:28 AM on Thursday, December 11th, 2008

AGORACOM Chief Commentator, Peter Grandich, made a call to BNN to alert them about this article on gold officially hitting backwardation.  Backwardation occurs when the futures price of a commodity is lower than prices in the cash market.

Forward prices for gold turned negative on December 2nd and, according to Antal Fekete the author of the story, this is the first time it has happened in history (with the exception of contract expiry dates for a couple of minutes).  Fekete states:

“On December 2nd, at the Comex in New York, December gold futures
(last delivery: December 31) were quoted at 1.98% discount to spot,
while February gold futures (last delivery: February 27, 2009) were
quoted at 0.14% discount to spot. (All percentages annualized.)

The condition got worse on December 3rd, when the corresponding
figures were 2% and 0.29%. This means that the gold basis has turned
negative, and the condition of backwardation persisted for at least 48 hours.“

In addition, demand for gold delivery on December 31 means COMEX may be running out of gold.  Specifically, 40% of COMEX’s 2.8 million ounces is set for delivery on December contracts but – given the fact not all COMEX gold is available for delivery – this means COMEX supply will fall short if demand for delivery does not change between now and the end of the month.

Why is this taking place? Fekete believes owners of gold are no longer willing to sell their gold at any price. Thus, as opposed to selling on the spot at a higher price and buying it on the futures at a lower price – an easy arbitrage trade – they are choosing to hold onto their physical gold because they don’t believe it will be available for delivery in the future.

Conclusion – a supply shortage in gold can only translate into a significantly higher price.

BNN INTERVIEW

As a result of the Grandich Alert to BNN, John Ing – CEO of Maison Placements – was brought in to talk about the matter further on The Close. You can view the interview by clicking on the screenshot above.

Gold prices broke through $825 today and is up 4 days in a row.

UPDATE #1: Backwardation has hit mainstream, with a discussion on CNBC at 9:30 AM this morning (December 11)

UPDATE #2: Merril Lynch Chief Economist, Dave Rosenberg, was on CNBC this morning and said gold is a hedge against inflation and deflation.  The only time gold isn’t a good investment is during “perfect” bull markets such as the one we had in the 90’s.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 10/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:46 AM on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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 December 10 and we’ve found 2 great press releases 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.

  • Pinnacle Mines – TSX-V:PNL, FSE:07M $0.03
  • VMS Ventures – TSX-V:VMS $0.25

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 09/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:43 AM on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

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 December 9 and we’ve found 3 great press releases 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.

  • ImageWare Systems – OTC BB:IWSYE $0.25
  • Romarco Minerals – TSX-V:R $0.13
  • Greystar Resources – TSX:GSL, AIM:GSL $0.86

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Evolving Gold (EVG: TSXV) Continues Strong Trading After Last Week’s Results

Posted by AGORACOM at 6:00 PM on Monday, December 8th, 2008

Last week, we wrote Evolving Gold Corp. (TSXV: EVG) (FSE:EV7) a recently added AGORACOM client that announced impressive assay results, including 131m of 2.74 g/t of gold.

As the IR firm, I can’t use anymore adjectives but I do suggest gold bugs take a closer look at the company’s full press release. In addition to the impressive assays, Evolving has about $18,000,000 in the treasury and appears to be catching some interest in the marketplace despite the fact we are in the 2nd week of December:

As you can see, today was another strong day in the markets for Evolving Gold. EVG closed the day up 2 cents to .22 cents on 375,000 in volume. Furthermore, EVG ended the day with a bid ask of .22/.23 with 50,000 on the bid and just 2,500 on the ask. With “assays still pending for holes RSC-008 through 015”, EVG is worth watching very closely.

With respect to the entire space, one of our employees stated “I haven’t seen this much green in my TSXV resource portfolio in quite a while.”

Though it is premature to call this a trend, we hope it’s an indication of what may be to come in 2009 for Evolving Gold and all quality juniors that were ravaged in the past 6 months. I emphasize “quality juniors” because, as readers of this blog know full well, I won’t shed a tear for the extinction of peanut butter small-cap resource companies that had no reason to be public other than to be promoted.

The recent activity in Evolving Gold shows that investors will always have an appetite for quality companies.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 08/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:41 AM on Monday, December 8th, 2008

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 December 8 and we’ve found 5 great press releases 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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Webcast Of AGORACOM Keynote Investor Relations Speech From PIPEs Conference 2008

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:14 PM on Sunday, December 7th, 2008

AGORACOM was proud to be the Investor Relations Sponsor at The PIPEs Conference hosted by DealFlowMedia in New York last month, which has become the largest and most important event on Wall Street for the small-cap and micro-cap space.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – TURN THIS TURMOIL TO YOUR ADVANTAGE

As the IR Sponsor, I gave the keynote IR presentation titled “A Recipe For Success During Market Turmoil”. which is based on our blog post back on October 7th. The post was very well received by clients and non-clients and even cited by IR Web Report as an example of how to turn this period of turmoil into a competitive advantage.

More than just lip service, we’ve followed these principals for our own business and had a record month in October.

For those of you that couldn’t attend, please find enclosed a webcast of the presentation.

Click To Launch Presentation

Regards,
George

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Quick FAQ For Most Recent Upgrade To AGORACOM

Posted by AGORACOM at 7:36 PM on Friday, December 5th, 2008

UPDATED: Saturday 11:30 PM EST

Good evening to you all and thanks for both helping us with bug fixes over the past couple of days and giving us an opportunity to fix them. Overall, reaction has been hugely positive with even the tech support e-mails being supportive and helpful.

Nonetheless, now that we’ve fixed most of the bugs, I will be posting a quick demo video this weekend that illustrates our upgraded features and how they work. In the meantime, I wanted to post the following quick FAQ until the video goes up.

1. What Changes Were Made To The Site?

We added three really important upgrades that members have been asking for over the past few months:

  • Threaded View – You now have the option to view discussion forum messages in a threaded view.
  • Top Messages – You can now view the top rated messages (thumbs) by day, week, month and year to date for each HUB
  • Editing Messages – You now have 5 minutes to edit a message for spelling errors, etc.

2. I Really Miss The Old Format

Once you use the site for a couple of hours, you’ll see the changes are actually quite small but important from a user experience point of view.

Specifically, incorporating threads is of major importance when investors are trying to keep up with conversations regarding important messages. To deliver this, we had no choice but to add a couple of more buttons and options to allow members to choose between threaded and list views.

However, if you don’t use threads and just want to keep reviewing messages in chronological order, then nothing has changed. You just keep reading and clicking “next message.”

3. What Is The HUB Home On Each HUB?

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AGORACOM Financial News TV – Breaking Small-Cap And Micro-Cap Financial News At The Open (Dec 05/08)

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:39 AM on Friday, December 5th, 2008

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 December 5 and we’ve found 2 great press releases 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.

  • Eurasian Minerals – TSX-V:EMX $0.54
  • Verona Development Corp – TSX-V:VDC Halted

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