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AGORACOM Wire – Osama Death Effect On Markets & Did Silver Know Before The Rest Of Us??

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:48 PM on Sunday, May 1st, 2011


AGORACOM WIRE – SUNDAY MAY 1ST, 2011

11:15 PM EST … BREAKING … OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD NEWS



MARKET REACTION … Equity Futures Up Big (Dow +106) … Oil, Gold, Silver Down Hard

DID SILVER MARKET KNOW ?? … Why Did Silver Market Drop $6 Immediately At The Open At 6PM EST Today? AGORACOM Silver Chart

VIDEO: Betrayed – The Story Of Aurelian Resources – AGORACOM Blog

Financial Post: AGORACOM Is The Site Retail Investors Famously Use To Fight Takeovers http://bit.ly/ihZzjh

BARRICK GOLD CEO - Gold Is Now Being Valued In A Whole New Way… Never To Be The Same Member Post Fiat Confidence Broken

WALL STREET JOURNAL ON YUKON GOLD RUSH – The Stakes Are Real

VIDEO: Betrayed – The Story Of Aurelian Resources

Posted by AGORACOM at 4:12 PM on Thursday, April 28th, 2011

With Century Mining Shareholders leading yet another small-cap shareholder revolt against a “friendly” (definition: predatory) takeover, I am reminded of the very first online revolt by shareholders of Aurelian Resources. Despite forcing Kinross to renew its offer 4 times (a record for a “friendly” takeover?), Aurelian was acquired – BUT not before shareholders made headlines, videos and history.

Here are a couple of my favourite videos:

This is the story of Aurelian Resources, and how everything went horribly wrong when the company’s management sold its shareholders down the river.

This is the opening title from The Battle for Aurelian Resources, in which the Rebel shareholders from Agoracom take on the Evil Kinross Empire, which has all the money in the world

This was Hitler’s reaction when he was told of the Kinross Gold offer to buy

*The Most Popular Of All Aurelian Videos With Over 17,000 Views

Uranium Stocks Poised For Massive Rebound – HedgeHog Trader Guest Post

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:58 AM on Friday, April 22nd, 2011

BECOME A URANIUM ‘CONTRARIAN’:  PROFIT FROM PANIC!

Dear Investor,

While most investors have their eye on the precious metals, there is one very special sector poised for a massive surprise rebound – one that may outshine the precious metal sector – and that is uranium stocks! In March, investors sold uranium stocks in a panic as an earthquake and a Tsunami damaged Japan’s nuclear reactors.

However, those investors, driven by sheer herd mentality, will soon regret their actions. For one thing I’ve learned is that when a large group acts so decidedly in one way, they end up making the wrong decision. For indeed, once every seller has sold, prices have no choice but to rise. And I believe that’s where uranium shares are now.

13 bullish points for uranium investors to consider:

1) A major delay in the uranium bull market has been FULLY priced into uranium shares and therefore, once sentiment begins to shift (as it invariably will) or even if we begin to see uranium stock takeovers at these low prices, uranium shares will be making a bee-line higher!

2) China is not delaying. In fact, it announced it will proceed with construction of its nuclear power plants. The fast-industrializing nation is simply too busy growing to stop – and with its air full of smog and pollution due to a rapidly growing population there is simply no better clean energy option available to them.

3) 56 plants are under construction (mostly in China) and 200 more are being planned.

4) The US announced it will not delay its building plans for nuclear power plants. It is moving ahead!

5) Over 430 nuclear power plants are in operation, producing 15% of the world’s power.

6) Coal and uranium combined provide for about 90% of America’s energy needs. Coal supplies the bulk, at 70 percent! What no one in the press reports, is that coal also accounts for the deaths of between 10,000 to 20,000 people per year, while there has not been a single reported death from nuclear power in the US! In 1975, 30 dams in China failed due to flooding and an estimated 230,000 people perished. And yet, no one is calling hydro-power a demon! ☺

7) Insiders are now buying shares of uranium companies. Insiders only buy for one reason – when they know a company is dirt cheap. For an insider knows the value of their own company better than anyone! In fact, one influential and very-well respected resource investor recently bought 300,000 shares, increasing his stake in a well-known uranium producer by 40 percent! Another investor with a truly amazing reputation for buying bargain resource stocks was busy buying shares of a 30-cent uranium stock for his own personal account. Ted Dixon, CEO of Ink Research (whose company expertly tracks and analyzes executive buying and selling) considers both of these purchases (in addition to some others I’ve noted) significant enough for investors to take notice.

8) Only 62% of all uranium produced comes from uranium mines. A large part of the remainder comes from plutonium from dismantled Cold War nuclear weapons stockpiles (warheads, etc) and that uranium should only last until … 2013. How’s a major uranium shortage for a near-term catalyst?

9) “Half of the [uranium demand] growth over the next 10 years is all coming from China,” said Orest Wowkodaw, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity.

10) Future uranium supply is going to need be secured in advance, for practical reasons. That will create advance pressure on uranium demand!

11) The World Nuclear Association expects uranium demand to increase 33% from 2010-2030.

12) By 2012, out of the 10 largest producing uranium mines operating today, SIX will be depleted, two will be in their final stages, one will be upgrading and one will be producing.

13) Uranium demand will greatly outstrip supply which has peaked! Uranium wealth bubble here we come!

Charted below is the price of uranium versus the price of gold. We can see uranium is ripe to break up through its down-trend line any day now (my guess – within the next 10 days). Furthermore, the MACD signal on the chart is rising, showing positive divergence, which reveals underlying strength, a subtle momentum change and the likelihood of a move to the upside.

What I’ve learned and now shared, is that the issues surrounding Japan are not going to affect uranium’s long-term bull market which is just now getting started. In fact, those who choose to be contrarian and buy valuable assets on the cheap, are those who end up profiting handsomely! And that is exactly what happened when investors began acquiring gold and silver-leveraged companies when gold was $400 and silver was $7 or less.

In fact gold was so out of favour by 1999 that England’s finance minister (and future prime minister) Gordon Brown sold a gold cache containing half of England’s centuries-old treasure (a whopping 400 tons!) for less than $300 an ounce! Warren Buffet who many consider the world’s greatest investor, sold his entire stake of 130 million ounces of silver at $7 an ounce in 2006, settling for a pitiful $2 per ounce profit! Talk about two ‘experts’ who were wrong at the bottom! Clearly, being contrarian is the way to go!

Near-term outlook:  The amazing chart above (labeled U.TO) shows how quickly uranium panics tend to rebound. This resilience in the price of uranium also shows the tremendous underlying strength in the commodity. What investors should also know is that the last 4 extreme sell-off lows (labeled with green arrows) have resulted in uranium prices rising on average 40 percent! And uranium stocks are likely to provide even more leverage to the upside! At present, we’ve generated another green BUY arrow, meaning there really is no better opportunity for uranium stock investors to buy shares than the one you see today!

BUY NOW! DON’T WAIT FOR THE MEDIA’S ‘EXPERT’ VOTE OF APPROVAL

To profit from the explosive uranium bull market ahead, join my elite uranium advisory (HHN) Hedgehog Nuke! In fact, our Alpha Forecasts indicate major gains for us over the next few weeks! And it’s true – the media will be all over this uranium-turnaround story like all others they cover – but unfortunately, their ‘valuable analysis’ will come after the fact. By the time uranium is judged a solid investment again by the masses, our elite uranium stocks will have rocketed higher!

After all, the media told you tech stocks were going to the moon in 2000, then they told you stocks were never coming back after the 2008 market crash, they missed the gold and silver bull, the oil crash; the list of the media’s misses literally goes on and on. Soon we’ll add Uranium’s Revenge to that list and you’ll have read it here first!

Don’t forget, we are also sharing with our Hedgehog Nuke (HHN) subscribers our one year uranium forecast, a number of valuable insider buys and sell transactions we’ve noted over the past few weeks and our top rated elite uranium recommendations. Don’t miss out!

About Nicholas Winton: Nicholas  is editor-in-chief of HedgehogTrader.com whose website provides unique and accurate forecasting and analysis of the broad markets, resource stocks and commodities with contrarianism, insider buying, and his proprietary Alpha Signals. His advisories and uncanny predictions have amazed and enriched resource investors since 2006! He is also a consultant to Hedge Funds and wealth management advisors. You can follow his commentary on his blog, and on his informative and entertaining Twitter feed! http://www.twitter.com/hedgehogtrader ]

George’s Note: This article contains the opinions of Hedgehog trader and are not an offer to buy or sell securities by AGORACOM.  Having said that, I have followed the HedgeHog Trader newsletter for a couple of months now and find the information to be extremely valuable in helping me formulate my own investment decisions.  If you are looking for a well researched newsletter covering junior resource companies, I strongly suggest considering HHT.

You can also follow HedgeHog Trader on Twitter 

Despite Screaming Gold & Silver – Tech Plays Take Top 6 Volume Spots on TSX Venture

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:49 PM on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The day isn’t over just yet but unless something big happens in the next 20 minutes, this is the way things are going to shake out.  You need to get through 6 companies before finding your first hard rock company on the TSX Venture volume list.

I, for one, am happy to see this.  I am big time bullish on junior resources companies going forward … but it’s nice to see we don’t have a one-trick pony.

Regards,
George

Century Mining Members Commence 3rd Small-Cap Shareholder Revolt Via AGORACOM

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:15 AM on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

I am very proud to announce that members of AGORACOM have once again used the power of the web to launch yet another small-cap shareholder revolt against an unfair acquisition of their company.  The Century Mining Corporation Concerned Shareholders issued this press release yesterday to officially “Question The Business Combination With White Tiger Gold Ltd.”

This is a well written, well reasoned press release that provides the market with succinct facts behind the revolt.  I highly recommend reading it.  Moreover, if you are a small-cap resource investor, you need to support this campaign and send a clear signal that predatory takeovers of your companies is a thing of the past.

SMALL CAP SHAREHOLDERS WON’T BE PUSHED AROUND ANYMORE

On September 7th 2007, I posted a story on this blog titled “The Empowerment Of Online Investors – It’s Here For Good”. In that story, I stated the following:

“What does this mean for small-cap and micro-cap CEO’s?

Online investors have almost as much power as you do when it comes to the future
of your company. Unhappy investors are no longer relegated to the vacuum of “harsh”
e-mail and letters to express their discontent. Today, investors can rally in short order
via video, blogs and online forums to challenge you at your next AGM, oust you from
your position or even elect their own slate of directors.

In fact, not only is this possible, I’ll go as far as predict it will actually happen in the
next 12-24 months
as investors make Web 2.0 a part of their daily investing lives.
I’m the biggest proponent of great small-cap and micro-companies but we all know
there are still many companies out there deserving of being the first target of an online
shareholder revolt – and I’ll be the first to applaud it.”

Within months we saw shareholders of Aurelian Resources and then Noront Resources  rise up and fight against an unfair “friendly takeover” / predatory proposed changes to control of its board respectively.  They went 1-for-2 but man did they make a lot of noise … see Aurelian Resources … see Noront Resources

APPLAUDING SHAREHOLDERS OF CENTURY MINING

I said I would be the first to applaud it, so bravo to all of you for your efforts. I want to congratulate the “Century Mining Corporation Concerned Shareholders” group for its activism efforts.  By amalgamating all shareholders for the purpose of educating, communicating, sharing and analyzing all aspects of this potential acquisition, you have given yourself the opportunity to generate greater shareholder value through:

* Rejection of this offer
* Sweetening of the current offer
* Attracting a better offer

This ordeal is long from over, so don’t give up. Continue to push for a better deal if the majority of you truly believe the White Tiger offer is insufficient ….and let AGORACOM know if there is anything further we can do to help the cause.

Best Regards,
George and the AGORACOM Team

Bill O’Reilly Kills Obama Rumors Once And For All

Posted by AGORACOM at 4:28 PM on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Say what you will about his political views, you have to give Bill O’Reilly big ups for setting the record straight on Obama rumors being spread via the web.  No doubt he wants Obama to crash and burn in 2012 … but at least he wants to do it straight up mano a mano.  Respect.

PIMCO Shorts US Debt, Goes To Cash – What Does This Mean For Small-Cap Investors?

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:46 AM on Monday, April 11th, 2011

The biggest news for small-cap investors to digest – by far – is that PIMCO has not only sold all of its US Debt Holdings, it has gone short.  Find my comments below via Twitter (reverse chronology) and my follow on comments below on how this plays out (theory vs. practically):

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN – Theoretically?

On it’s surface (I stress SURFACE), Bill Gross, Founder of PIMCO, is telling us that QE3 isn’t coming and nobody will be stepping into to replace US Fed purchases of US Gov’t debt.  That will lead to – at the very least – a drop in Debt prices, so he is getting the hell out of Dodge.  Simple enough … until you get to my practical comments below.

First, here are the theoretical (I stress THEORETICAL) follow-on effects:

INTEREST RATES – Going higher, just a matter of degree

$USD – Should strengthen with rising rates

EQUITIES – Should weaken for two reasons: A) Corporate expenses rise on higher borrowing rates = lower profits; B) Investors sell stocks to raise cash. Small-cap resource stocks fall in unison.

GOLD / SILVER – Should weaken against the US Dollar at the very least, potentially against most major currencies

US REAL ESTATE – Bombs Away .. my real estate theory since October 2009 remains intact

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN – Practically?

Unfortunately, we have learned over the last decade that economic theory can no longer be relied upon.  After all, interest rate easing that began after 9/11 was never intended to crash real estate markets, plunge the planet into a debt crisis and lead to record nominal gold prices … yet here we are despite the “brightest” minds at the US Fed, White House and Central Banks around the world.

What truly happens isn’t so linear because market manipulation has taken the natural ebb and flow out of all markets – debt, equities, commodities, currencies.  Prices are no longer determined by value – they are determined by confidence or a lack thereof.  As such, what should practically happen is the following:

CONFIDENCE CRISIS – When US Fed purchases of US debt vanishes and isn’t replaced by the market, a crisis of confidence will commence.

INTEREST RATES – Will move incrementally higher, then accelerate as US debt prices free fall

$USD – Will initially strengthen with rising rates and bond nibbling, then drop as investors realize bond/confidence risk is too great.  Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar will do very well.

EQUITIES – Double Dip probability rises dramatically. Small-cap resource stocks take an initial hit, followed by massive rebound on gold, silver moves (see below).

GOLD / SILVER- Will initially weaken by as much as 20% /30% respectively on early $USD strength, then rocket towards all-time inflation adjusted highs of ~ $2,200 and $150 within 12 months

US REAL ESTATE – Bombs Away .. my real estate theory since October 2009 remains intact

AM I A GENIOUS OR WHAT?

I’d like to think so – but I don’t think so for two reasons:

1] Obvious Reason – I could be very wrong and a number of other outcomes could occur.  This time, I think I’m right – but see #2 below

2]  The Fed / White House / Wall Street Financial Matrix Isn’t Stupid – Despite what many smart people have to say, the powers that be aren’t as stupid as they seem.  They just don’t give a damn about your long-term interests. Despite damage to the current and long-term US economy, I firmly believe they have executed their plan perfectly in their best interests – and they’re not finished ….

QE3

It’s coming … 100% … only this time it will require the financial pain I have outlined above in order to politically justify it … but as I posted on March 30th, QE3 Will Be Delayed, Not Terminated.

At that point, the game plan resumes … but not before Bill Gross and PIMCO step back into US Debt, go long and make a killing on their cash thanks to rising debt prices, which leads to falling rates, much weaker $USD, stabilized stock markets, MUCH higher gold/silver, MUCH higher junior resource stocks.

Until then, plan accordingly.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Wire – What Small-Cap Investors Are Reading Today

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:13 AM on Thursday, April 7th, 2011

AGORACOM Wire – THURSDAY APRIL 7th, 2011

Century Mining Shareholders File OSC Complaint … Members of Century Mining Go To The OSC With Complaint About “Friendly Takeover” … Accuse Management Of Deception and Possible Attempt To Defraud Them

Follow George’s Trades … Catch Them In Near Real-Time On AGORACOM Twitter. Sample 1 and Sample 2

7 Press Releases Today … AGORACOM TV Is Your Best Daily Filter To Discover New Small-Cap Stories … Hand-Picked Before The Open

TSX Venture Tweets - For Those Of You Not On Twitter, AGORACOM Has Produced A Daily “Newspaper” That Publishes Tweets By TSX Venture Companies That Are On Twitter. Check It Out!

Why I Bought Titan Uranium Shares Today – Sheldon Inwentash

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:54 PM on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

I picked up 30,000 shares of Titan Uranium today for a couple of reasons … here is my biggest reason … and why I will probably add more.  Sometimes, when someone with better access to information and analysis then you have puts their money where their mouth is, you just follow along.

As always, do your own DD and remember I may be in for the day or for the year.  Right now, all other things being equal, my first target is low 40’s … but that can change at anytime and for any reason.

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Market Snapshot – S&P, $USD, Gold, Silver, Oil

Posted by AGORACOM at 7:34 AM on Monday, April 4th, 2011