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Does AMEX Plan To Become The Exchange For Micro-Cap Stocks?

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:31 PM on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

 

Tim Hanson over at the Motley Fool reported that the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) recently announced plans to try and become the exchange for micro-cap stocks. Unfortunately, I can’t find any reference to this on the AMEX site or via search engine. If anybody can provide me with the source, that would be appreciated. I have no doubt TMF is reporting correctly on the matter, it would just be great to read a press release or any other kind of announcement on the matter.

 

How does Hanson feel about it? He sure doesn’t pull any punches:

 

“Forgive me if I run screaming from the building. Why? Well, the AMEX is the least reputable of our major U.S. exchanges. It lists more than its share of questionable companies and has a long history of not delisting companies when it should.”

 

Nonetheless, it probably makes good business sense for the AMEX to go this route. They don’t have any hopes of competing with the NYSE or Nasdaq, especially when you consider the amount of consolidation going on amongst stock exchanges right now. It is so rampant that the Financial Times has dedicated a complete section to the matter on FT.com .

 

As such, it makes sense to switch focus to more than 10,000 companies listed/quoted on junior exchanges/quotation systems throughout North America. Make no mistake about it, this is a lofty goal but they are going in the right direction.

 

Regards,
George

 

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – 4 Great Press Releases Before The Open (August 22nd)

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:32 AM on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap and micro-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. If you haven’t seen the show yet, 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 press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

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 blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing.

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list over 60 great small-cap companies by exchange and industry for your convenience.

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Why Small-Caps Should Issue Press Releases By 8:30 AM EST

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:09 AM on Monday, August 20th, 2007

Good afternoon to you all. Now that we’ve started broadcasting AGORACOM TV on a daily basis, one of the things I have noticed is that small-cap companies continue to release news just at or before the open. This might have been an acceptable practice back in the day when only brokers could access press releases on their screens but it made no sense once the web opened them up to the entire world.

It makes even less sense now. Why?

Folks, we are in a Web 2.0 world in which citizen journalism and analysis is becoming a bigger, more important research tool than Wall Street and finance portals. As a result, small-cap and micro-cap information is being pumped out by bloggers, podcasters, and vloggers everyday – all of which is being fed into every corner of the web via RSS feeds, including iTunes, Yahoo Podcasts, Google Blog Search, etc. on your behalf – and for free!

However, if you want your great news covered by these incredible reporting sources, you have to give them a chance to get to your news, digest it and report on it. Just like traditional news, Web 2.0 sources have deadlines as well. AGORACOM TV, for example, has a cut-off around 8:50 so that we can tape at 9:00 and be live by 9:30. I’m certain others are not much different. If your press release is coming out at 9:30, you’ve robbed yourself of potential mass coverage by one or more sources that might have otherwise picked up your news and sent it right around the world.

Bottom line – put your news out by no later than 8:30 AM EST….unless you don’t want the world to know about you.

Best,
George

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – Today’s Best Press Releases Before The Open (August 20th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:34 AM on Monday, August 20th, 2007

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap and micro-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. If you haven’t seen the show yet, 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 press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

Our TV 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 blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing.

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list over 60 great small-cap companies by exchange and industry for your convenience.

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – Today’s Best Press Releases Before The Open (August 17th)

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:53 PM on Friday, August 17th, 2007

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. If you haven’t seen the show yet, 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 press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

Our TV 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 blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing.

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list over 60 great small-cap companies by exchange and industry for your convenience.

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Is Nightingale Informatix (NGH: TSXV) A Triple From Here?

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:29 PM on Thursday, August 16th, 2007

If you’ve been watching AGORACOM TV, then you’ve seen me talk about Nightingale Informatix with great enthusiasm a couple of times over the past couple of weeks thanks to some great contract announcements.

I covered them again today (watch the show) (read my show notes) thanks to a great Q1 that included the following:

  • Revenues of $6.1 million, up 105% over last year
  • Recurring Revenue was $4.0 million – wow!
  • Net loss decreased to $1.8 million vs. $2.3 million last year

I love NGH because – amongst other things – they are a provider of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Internet-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) to governments, hospitals, health centers, etc. Given the fact they are replacing the sophisticated paper based records that sit in massive filing cabinets at the back of your doctor’s office, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out this is the future.

Why? Beyond better looking offices, EMR and EHR lead to substantially better health care when any doctor can access your file at any time from anywhere. Today, I still have my doctors faxing my stuff between them. That means they have to call each other, get someone to retrieve my file, find the right report, fax it to the other doctor, who then has to do the reverse to get it into my file. WTF?!?

The future of Nightingale looks nice.

Now, how do we value them? Ask and you shall receive my child. Thanks to the wonderful people over at Wellington Financial (I really don’t know anyone there other than Mark Wilk) we now know that Nightingale – currently trading at .35 – is easily valued at $1.10 per. The target price comes from research out of Clarus Securities.

If you have 60 seconds to invest into a potential triple, then read the following post that neatly summarizes the Clarus report.

And you thought AGORACOM TV was just about my pretty face 🙂

Best,
George

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – Today’s Best Press Releases Before The Open

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:46 AM on Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. If you haven’t seen the show yet, 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 press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

Our TV 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 blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing.

As always, don’t forget to visit the AGORACOM Marketplace where we list over 60 great small-cap companies by exchange and industry for your convenience

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AGORACOM Small-Cap TV – Today’s Best Press Releases Before The Open

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:48 AM on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. If you haven’t seen the show yet, 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 press releases of the day in 3-5 minutes. You can watch the show by going to AGORACOM every morning.

Our TV 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 blog entries where I simply cut and paste my TV notes for your benefit, without any editing. (more…)

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Grandich Continues To Urge Equity Liquidation, Gold Acquisitions

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:08 PM on Monday, August 13th, 2007

If the market turmoil of late has you nervous, take 15 minutes to listen to our interview with Peter Grandich on the Yahoo Finance Small-Cap Show – a guy that I’ve personally witness call market movements with precision on several occasions in the past. What I really like is the fact he usually makes these calls against the crowd. It’s easy to run with a crowd but running through it takes guts and brains.

Best,
George

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Will The New Google Finance Canada Follow Yahoo and AOL By Adding A “Small-Cap Centre”?

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:05 PM on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Great news for Canadian investors as Google has announced the launch of Google Finance Canada, a localized version of the original Google Finance. The Canadian version provides some good information at a glance, including top movers and shakers (and losers) by marketcap, price, dollar volume, etc.

According to Google Finance Engineer, Dion Loy, the move seems to have been predicated by the fact that Canadians – despite their small population – are the second largest users of Google Finance. He goes on to add:

“…a Canadian myself, I’m excited to see Canadian financial information presented in the familiar easy to use Google Finance format.”

THE MISSING ELEMENT

The missing element here is that both the news feeds and video feeds focus overwhelmingly on large/mega-cap news. In order to capture the true nature of Canadian investors, I believe Google Finance Canada needs to follow suit with Yahoo Finance Canada and AOL Finance Canada by providing a small-cap centre (CDN spelling). This is especially true in an environment in which TSX Venture stocks are posting spectacular gains thanks to a bullish metals and minerals resources market.

Dion, as the exclusive provider to small-cap content to both the Yahoo and AOL Small-Cap Centres, as well as, every Blackberry device on the planet, we’d love to speak with you about incorporating a small-cap feed(s) of information.

In the meantime, hats off to Google for recognizing the independence of Canadian investors and equities.

Regards,
George

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