Town Crier with Chaplains to Hear Stock Positive & Negative Complaints (TCCSPN)

[RedneckInvestor]

Merry Christmas, Mick and all!

[mick]

i checked for quote on astg. i could't get a quote.

[bassfishing101]

XPO is the one I have bought ASTG I have been watching. I think XPO has the best potental out of the two

[mick]

it probably will be a crapshooters year. not much to go on for midcaps,blues or smallcaps.

mining?

[littlejohn]

Thanks, Mick, just another example of why there are more companies hitting the pink sheets with delistings over the past 2 years than there are snowflakes falling above the Mason-Dixon Line today...

I've never encountered any other business sectors that operate like Wall Street promotions do...

How low things go in the year ahead is looking like a crap shoot...LJ

[mick]

lj, one to beware of.


SGCP? scam? ,,, i have done some checking on this one. it is poison imo.
http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=sgcp
AT PINKS IT WILL SHOW SAME PROFILE USED IN LAST THREE SHELLS.

proof here: all three of these have used same profiling.

Company Notes Formerly=Viking Exploration, Inc. until 8-06
Formerly=African Resources, Inc. until 5-99 Formerly=Alpha Diamond Corp. until 6-98
r/s split in all three companies. Current Capital Change
shs decreased by 1 for 5 split
Pay Date: Aug 11, 2006


Contact Information Business Description
Sierra Gold Corp.
503-192 Jarvis St.
Toronto, ONT M5B 2J9
Canada

http://www.sierragoldcorp.com/

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Sierra Gold Corp. is a gold and diamond mining and exploration company with numerous mining property in Sierra Leone and Mali. Gold extraction will begin October 2008 at the Sewa River and Pampana river projects

OTC Market Tier
Pink Sheets No Information
Primary SIC — Industry Classification
1040 - Gold and Silver Ores
Business Stage
Development Stage Company
State Of Incorporation
NV
Jurisdiction Of Incorporation
United States
Company Officers
Douglas Evans, Chairman, CEO
John Semachko, Jr., Vice President

SEC Reporting Status
De-Registered as of Jun 23, 2006
CIK
0000762248
Current Capital Change
shs decreased by 1 for 5 split
Pay Date: Aug 11, 2006
Company Notes
Formerly=Viking Exploration, Inc. until 8-06

Security Notes
Capital Change=Capital Change=shs decreased by 1 for 20 split.. Ex-date=09/16/1997. Rec date=09/16/1997. Pay date=09/16/1997.
Transfer Agent
Capital Transfer Agency Inc.
390 Bay St.
Toronto , ONT M5H 2Y2
CAN


Auditor/Accountant
Rotenberg & Co LLP
1870 Winton Road South
Suite 200
Rochester, NY 14618

Legal Counsel
Joseph I. Emas, Esq.
1224 Washington Ave.
Suite 21
Miami Beach, FL 33139


The information provided here has been obtained from publicly available sources as well as directly from issuers in some cases.
Click here to update your company profile.


http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=sgcp

[littlejohn]

Christmas Eve visions of a 9 month Gerber accumulation plan may be swirling in some heads...

Snow days may lead to excessive snuggling...

Burning the midnight oil or natural gas may occur while missing the annual jewelry store visit to browse the lovely gold and silver delights...

Happy Holidays...LJ

[mick]

i'm looking at them.

Express-1 Expedited Solutions, (XPO)▲$0.96Change:0.048 (5.26%)Volume:10,79010:03:32 ESTDec-24-08

Bid (USD) Ask (USD) P/E EPS P/S
0.94 0.98 - 0.10 0.29
Volume Avg Volume Mkt Cap Outstanding Float
10,790 52,300 $ 30.75M 32,035,218 31,557,443
Prev Cls Open Dividend Dividend Yield
0.912 0.90 $ - -%
Day's Range 52-wk Range Ex-Dividend Date Dividend Date
0.90 - 0.98 0.80 - 1.45 - -
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

i see the news item. wonder what it means?
Air Transport Services Grp., (MM) (ATSG)▼$0.20Change:-0.0099 (-4.71%)Volume:13,72410:01:20 ESTDec-24-08

Bid (USD) Ask (USD) P/E EPS P/S
0.20 0.21 - 0.27 0.01
Volume Avg Volume Mkt Cap Outstanding Float
13,724 359,800 $ 12.67M 63,325,780 61,765,205
Prev Cls Open Dividend Dividend Yield
0.21 0.19 $ - -%
Day's Range 52-wk Range Ex-Dividend Date Dividend Date
0.19 - 0.219 0.12 - 4.31 - -

Recent News
Date Time Source Headline More

12/22/2008 1:18PM EDGAR - Confidential Treatment Order (CT ORDER)

[mick]

hi LJ, goods to ya. looks like it may not happen in jan.,2009

oil still trying for $30

[littlejohn]

Breaking NP News,,,A team to find Rudolph has been organized despite having to brave the blistery conditions...Santa is rumoured to be fearful of Christmas travel this year without Rudolph's shiny nose to guide him thru the wintery flight conditions...

Rudolph was last known to be completing shut down of Santa's mines as winter sets in,(Surely, You didn't think he could support this major annual gift event for children without a means of support, did you?)...

Many fear that Rudolph went further north by mistake from the mines when leaving and into much worse, blizzard conditions...

A large bounty has also been placed for the Abominable Snow Man...Rudolph isn't expected to be able to survive an encounter with this beast...

Mrs. Santa is said to be closely monitoring the milk supply for the younger elves now...They are totally dependent on Santa bringing back enough milk from his annual Christmas journey to last thru the next year...It would take a relief effort bigger than any ever undertaken if Santa is unable to bring home the milk for all the young elves...

Local weather Elf, Want-Warm-Feet, said that the weather conditions are frightful for the quest to rescue Rudolph...'All the Elves venturing out should be considered heroes'...

North Pole News will break in with any new developments on this breaking story!!!

[prettynpink]

Ruble Falls to 3-Year Low Versus the Dollar on Devaluation, Oil
By William Mauldin

Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The ruble fell to the lowest in almost three years against the dollar as Russia devalued the currency against its dollar-euro basket and tumbling oil prices battered the economy.

The ruble weakened as much as 1 percent to 28.4567 versus the dollar, the lowest level since January 2006, and was at 28.3525 at 3:15 p.m. in Moscow. Bank Rossii today allowed the ruble to decline for the second time in three working days and the ninth time since Nov. 11, according to a central bank official who declined to be identified. The currency fell 17 percent against the dollar since the beginning of August.

“The central bank has a plan of devaluation before the end of the year, and they’re trying to fit it in,” said Denis Korshilov, head of foreign exchange at Citigroup Inc. in Moscow who expects the central bank to devalue the ruble by another 1 percent to 2 percent in the near term. “We still see some weakness in oil, and that’s definitely part of their operations.”

Russia’s Urals blend of crude traded at $39.82 a barrel today, or just 4 percent above its four-year low of $38.29 on Dec. 5. Russian oligarchs are vying for $78 billion of Kremlin loans to survive the credit squeeze as Russian companies prepare to meeting about $110 billion of foreign obligations due next year, according to the central bank, double the total owed in Brazil, India and China.

Funds Withdraw

An internationally condemned war with Georgia, a plunge in oil prices and the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression caused investors to withdraw $211 billion from Russia since August, according to BNP Paribas SA. Bank Rossii drained $162.7 billion, or 27 percent, from its foreign-currency reserves, the world’s third-largest, to prevent a sudden devaluation from causing a repeat of the bank runs of 1998, when the ruble tumbled 71 percent against the dollar.

The ruble fell 1.3 percent to 39.7050 against the euro. It weakened 1 percent to 33.4662 against the basket, made up of about 55 percent dollars and the rest euros and used to protect Russian exporters from foreign-exchange fluctuations.

Barclays Capital says Russia’s economy will sink into a recession next year as the price of Urals crude, the country’s export oil blend, traded below the $70 a barrel average needed to balance the budget in 2009. Industrial production shrank the most last month since the economic collapse 10 years ago. Standard & Poor’s cut Russia’s long-term debt rating last week for the first time in nine years on concern the country is wasting reserves defending the currency.

Russia’s currency reserves fell $1.6 billion to $435.4 billion in the week to Dec. 12, compared with a drop of $17.9 billion the previous week, the central bank said today.

Depreciation Forecasts

Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. are forecasting the ruble will lose as much as 25 percent over the next year as sliding oil erodes Russia’s $91.2 billion current-account surplus. Troika Dialog, the nation’s oldest investment bank, is calling for a one-time depreciation of as much as 20 percent versus the basket in late January after the holiday period. Commerzbank AG expects the currency to be gradually devalued to 35 versus the basket.

Crude oil for February delivery rose 0.6 percent to $42.60 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

After averaging 7 percent growth in the eight years to 2007, Russia’s economy may shrink as the reduction in oil revenues erodes the country’s $91.2 billion current-account surplus. Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach was the first government official to suggest the economy is headed for a recession in remarks to reporters last week.

Russia is aiming to free float the ruble by 2011.

Russia’s benchmark 30-year Eurobond was little changed today, yielding 10.01 percent.

To contact the reporter on this story: William Mauldin in Moscow at [e-mail].

Last Updated: December 22, 2008 07:22 EST

[prettynpink]

good day mick!

[mick]

clairmon, good afternoon and to all. just wanted to make sure i got seasons greeting to ya and all.

[clairmontasap]

if I don't talk with you, have a good holiday too mick

[mick]

i got busy last few days. several items kept me from doing much here.

"say merry christmas to you and your family and to all rush da man's fans."

[mick]

this is kind of the way i see it too.

[bassfishing101]

I find this stock to be a clean trade with a good return possible soon

[mick]

i'm reading here.

http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=XPO

[bassfishing101]

HERE is a stock I am looking at littlejohn

Another low VOL day for XPO. If this stock gets more VOL it should pop IMO but there is nothing but good stuff here and the P/E looks great along with the growth potental it has to offer.

Quarterly
(Sep '08) Annual
(2007) Annual
(TTM)
Net Profit Margin 3.55% 4.11% 2.95%
Operating Margin 5.89% 6.58% 4.88%
EBITD Margin - 8.30% 6.16%
Return on Average Assets 9.62% 9.58% 8.73%
Return on Average Equity 18.26% 12.95% 13.91%
Employees 132

[bassfishing101]

Thanks mick

[clairmontasap]

hope so mick

[mick]

Fri 10:16am GXL.V
Geoinformatics Completes 1 for 10 Share ConsolidationCNW Group

[littlejohn]

It wouldn't surprise me to see oil back in the 60 to 70 range by the 2nd week in January...

It has been my guess all along that many got bailouts that overspeculated in those markets last spring and summer...

The fallout has to be overdone to the downside as most shakeouts usually do...

Shipping, air, rail, and daily driving along with heating and cooling homes and businesses keeps oil and gas demand in a bare necessity category for many...LJ

[mick]

very good point.

[mick]

GM and Chrysler Will Get $13.4 Billion in US Loans

Bloomberg - 35 minutes ago
By Roger Runningen and John Hughes Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will get $13.4 billion in initial government loans to keep operating in exchange for substantially restructuring their businesses under a rescue plan ...
Stocks Rise on Auto Bailout New York Times
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Paulson Urges Release of Next $350 Billion From TARP

Bloomberg - 40 minutes ago
By Robert Schmidt Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress to release the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue fund after exhausting the first $350 billion in less than three months.
US Treasury Paulson: Auto Plan Uses Last Of Available TARP Funds CNNMoney.com
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[mick]

i talked to my broker and he didn't know twx was thinking about a R/S.

[mick]

hi clairmon, i didn't see any. it is going to be a wow trading year for 2009.

i'm totally surprised dow 30 is holding this high going into
2009

[littlejohn]

Mick, all that money could have been lost in a month or so recently...

You really can't apply the law of averages to the market...

There isn't anything rational about the markets and how they react from hour to hour or day to day...

It looks like it is all about who has the money flow to draw followers to me...

Hard lesson learned well...LJ

[clairmontasap]

does the guy have any stock picks though? lol

[mick]

little for madoff, Mass. investor saw inside Madoff scam
Massachusetts investor saw inside Madoff scam 9 years ago, but few listened
Jay Lindsay, Associated Press Writer
Friday December 19, 2008, 8:30 am EST
Yahoo! Buzz Print BOSTON (AP) -- His repeated warnings that Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme have cast Harry Markopolos as an unheeded prophet.

But people who know or worked with Markopolos say it wasn't prescience that helped him foresee the collapse of Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud. Instead, they say diligence and a strong moral sense drove his quixotic, nine-year quest to alert regulators about Madoff.

"He followed through on everything he ever did. He never let up," said his mother, Georgia Markopolos, in an interview Thursday. "Some kids just let it go if it's too hard, but he wouldn't do that."

"He feels very sorry for these people that got taken," she added. "It wouldn't have happened if they would have listened to him long ago."

Markopolos waged a remarkable battle to uncover fraud at Madoff's operation, sounding the alarm back in 1999 and continuing with his warnings all through this decade. The government never acted, Madoff continued his ways, and people lost billions.

Markopolos reached his conclusion with the help of mathematicians like Dan diBartolomeo, whose analysis of the Madoff's methods in 1999 helped fuel Markopolos' suspicions.

"People should have seen the writing on the wall," diBartolomeo said.

Markopolos did not respond to multiple e-mail or phone requests for an interview.

The 52-year-old resident of Whitman, about 20 miles south of Boston, grew up in Erie, Pa., the oldest of three siblings.

His mother said her son was a little nerdy as a child, as well as occasionally mischievous and unfailingly honest. She recalled an incident where he pelted his elementary school with eggs in the middle of winter, but no one saw him. Time passed with no confession from anyone, until Markopolos stepped forward, admitted he did it, and cleaned the school himself.

Markopolos became an adept hunter and fisherman as he grew up, like many from the rural area, but also showed early aptitude at academics, as well as a willingness to question authority.

"He used to challenge the teachers," his mother said with a laugh. "He'd tell them he had the right answers, but they had the wrong questions."

Markopolos graduated from Cathedral Prep in Erie in 1974, then in 1981 from Loyola College in Maryland, which his mother said he paid for on his own. After time in the Army and in the financial services field, he earned a graduate management degree from Boston College in 1997.

By 1999, he was working for Rampart Investment Management Co. and charged with doing competitive research on Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which was using a similar investment strategy as his company, but far outperforming it. Part of Markopolos's research included a visit to diBartolomeo, whom he knew from his professional circle.

"I think he was curious about how his competitor was doing so much better than they were," diBartolomeo recalled.

Researching Madoff's numbers, using data the firm distributed to prospective investors, diBartolomeo concluded within hours that it was impossible for Madoff to get the returns he reported while using the strategy he said he used.

"As the market goes up and down, this strategy should have done a little better or a little worse, just like everybody else," he said. "Instead, it appeared to be indifferent as to whether the market went up or down. They made money all the time."

Markopolos complained to the SEC's Boston office in May 1999, saying it was impossible for the kind of profit Madoff was reporting to have been gained legally.

But Madoff continued to thrive, even as Markopolos continued to pursue the case.

In 2005, he submitted a report to the SEC saying it was "highly likely" that "Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme." In the report, he says he knew his research could ruin people's careers and asked the SEC be discreet about circulating the report and his name.

"I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family," he wrote.

The report highlights 29 "red flags" about Madoff's business, among them the returns of a third-party hedge fund managed by Madoff's firm which had negative returns in just seven on the 174 months Markopolos analyzed.

"No major league baseball hitter bats .960, no NFL team has ever gone 96 wins and only 4 losses over a 100 game span, and you can bet everything you own that no money manager is up 96% of the months either," he said.

His warnings were heard too late, and he's become a symbol of a botched oversight of Madoff by the SEC. His mother says the father of three boys under 5 has been bombarded by media requests. Now, a man who tried to be heard for years is going to lay low for a bit, she said.

"Right now, he's out relaxing some place," he said. "I can't even get in touch with him."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mass-investor-saw-inside-apf-13877101.html

[mick]

trump said lower oil ppb in the summer when it was $75/$80.

we know it was a bush law to get oil high and keep it there for war games.

war games? not done yet with russia in the caribbean and cuba waters.

i hope opec is broken up one day.

[littlejohn]

Makes you wonder if you store some gas for the lawnwork how long it will stay good...

Hard to trust the prices to stay low with so many saying that they are going lower now...LJ

[mick]

yes it is ending options today for dec. oil is probably at zero as i see oil today. saw in $34 range.

[mick]

hi bass, haven't done much on this one. showing green.



Bid (USD) Ask (USD) P/E EPS P/S
0.85 0.90 - 0.10 0.27
Volume Avg Volume Mkt Cap Outstanding Float
400 53,500 $ 28.51M 32,035,218 31,557,443
Prev Cls Open Dividend Dividend Yield
0.87 0.89 $ - -%
Day's Range 52-wk Range Ex-Dividend Date Dividend Date
0.89 - 0.89 0.80 - 1.45 - -

[littlejohn]

Quadruple Witching Day, playing on a screen this Friday for any who dare to watch...

Rated: no children allowed...LJ

[bassfishing101]

mick did you get a chance to look at XPO I added a new chart to their board, looking for a pop let me know whay you think.

BASS

[littlejohn]

Thank-you, sir...LJ

[mick]

i received a proxy from TWX. going to do a R/S soon. 1 to 2
or 1 to 3

[bassfishing101]

Hey mick long time hope all is well I have 2 stocks I have been looking at XPO and ATSG FORD market research has rated both as buys any thoughts on these

Bass

[littlejohn]

Gotta keep your eyes peeled for smoke signals...

Newswire saying that Chrysler is warning Dealer's of a prospective pending halt from them for new auto inventory floor planning...

That is about like a tornado shutting a barn door..LJ

[mick]

GMAC is in bankruptcy call. asking for TARP money to back their 38 billion chaos.

[littlejohn]

Another rate cut???...Cookie jars would be nice gifts this Holiday season...

No need in leaving any money in the bank with no return...At least at home you can shake it and put it in different piles to pass the time...

Grinch is coming to the market...LJ

[mick]

hi LJ<> thanx for this update.
re;
Mick, impossible to predict ALRY until the company updates several items...

Tired of trying to find out what the large investments that the company has are and with who and what percentages and so forth...Much of the company revenue and profit has been being created from JV or investment revenue in the past...

One of these days, maybe...LJ

[littlejohn]

Mick, impossible to predict ALRY until the company updates several items...

Tired of trying to find out what the large investments that the company has are and with who and what percentages and so forth...Much of the company revenue and profit has been being created from JV or investment revenue in the past...

One of these days, maybe...LJ

[mick]

i'm looking for some ten baggers. none yet.

[mick]

hi LJ, any thoughts for their future?

re;
Links to Quest Cherokee, LLC. and Allenergy, Inc. production data in Kansas...

Quest Cherokee, LLC.-production data

http://abyss.kgs.ku.edu/pls/abyss/oil.ogop4.OpPage?f_id=1030385909

Click on List of leases to review Lease listings...Page 42 of 43 also shows this company in the area on the Bayless Lease in the general area of ALRY operations...

Allenergy, Inc.-production data

http://abyss.kgs.ku.edu/pls/abyss/oil.ogop4.OpPage?f_id=1032689811

ALRY concentrated on increasing oil production in 2008 in an area which most companies concentrate on for gas production...Maybe a change to pursuing more gas production would help increase their BOE per month production to their targets easier...LJ

[littlejohn]

The playing field against companies with influential backing creating illusions is gaining parity...

The next 6 months will probably complete the phase of a needed shakeout...

Still looks like some smaller companies out there in better shape to get thru than many former much larger market cap companies...

Its gonna be interesting...LJ

[littlejohn]

Links to Quest Cherokee, LLC. and Allenergy, Inc. production data in Kansas...

Quest Cherokee, LLC.-production data

http://abyss.kgs.ku.edu/pls/abyss/oil.ogop4.OpPage?f_id=1030385909

Click on List of leases to review Lease listings...Page 42 of 43 also shows this company in the area on the Bayless Lease in the general area of ALRY operations...

Allenergy, Inc.-production data

http://abyss.kgs.ku.edu/pls/abyss/oil.ogop4.OpPage?f_id=1032689811

ALRY concentrated on increasing oil production in 2008 in an area which most companies concentrate on for gas production...Maybe a change to pursuing more gas production would help increase their BOE per month production to their targets easier...LJ

[mick]

things not getting any better either as of today.

[mick]

ALLENERGY INC (OK) (OTC) (ALRY)◊$0.005Change:- (-%)Volume:50,82015:10:51 ESTDec-12-08

Bid (USD) Ask (USD) P/E EPS P/S
0.005 0.0065 - - -
Volume Avg Volume Mkt Cap Outstanding Float
50,820 - $ - - -
Prev Cls Open Dividend Dividend Yield
0.005 0.006 $ - -%
Day's Range 52-wk Range Ex-Dividend Date Dividend Date
0.005 - 0.006 - - -

Recent News
Date Time Source Headline More

10/09/2008 10:06AM PRNUS Allenergy, Inc. Announces Drilling Two New Wells in Southeastern Kansas
09/18/2008 10:43AM PRNUS Allenergy, Inc. Announces New Drilling Program in Kansas