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We should at least break .02 today imo!! igor88
One things for sure, It doesn't take much volume to move ANVH. Back to .013 X .014 now. igor88
I feel a run coming very soon!! IMO!! igor88
Yes indeed. Looking bullish today. .016 X .019 now!! Take care!!
.015 x .016 Looking better today!!!
NEXM looks like it want to move higher. Needs more volume though or it will just stay in this range from .12-.14 Good luck to us! igor
Goos buying opportunity here imo!! igor
Lockhart says Freddie, Fannie may sell bad assets: report
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FNM 1.34, -0.22, -14.1%) and Freddie Mac [s:fre] may sell some bad assets to the Treasury Department, but a final decision has not been made, said James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to a media report Sunday. "They are financial institutions that could sell assets. Whether they will or not certainly the decision has not been made," Lockhart said in a C-SPAN interview, according to Reuters. Lockhart said that between 2% and 4% of Fannie and Freddie's assets are bad mortgages, the report said. Fannie and Freddie were nationalized by the U.S. government in early September.
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FRE looking better now!!
Your welcome Snappo!!
7 more for a total of 12.
Just heard on CNBC that they have 5 votes that were a no that will vote yes. They need 7 more to pass the bill. Time will tell. The vote will be this afternoon.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's decision two weeks ago to ban short selling of nearly 1,000 stocks failed to prevent big declines in share prices in some of the best-known financial companies, has made an already edgy stock market more volatile and has raised trading costs for investors.
The SEC extended the ban on short-selling rules until three days after the $700 billion financial rescue legislation is enacted into law. It won't extend beyond 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 17.
The SEC also said hedge-fund managers would need to disclose their short positions until Oct. 17 and the hedge-fund rule would subsequently be made permanent. The SEC's move came shortly before the Senate approved a revamped financial rescue bill, returning the measure to the House for a vote Friday.
The SEC said the extension was necessary "to allow time for completion of work on the anticipated passage of legislation."
The SEC's ban has been widely criticized as a clumsy effort to buoy shares of battered financial stocks and for signaling to regulators around the world that such market intervention was acceptable. Stock markets from Australia to the Netherlands restricted short selling in the days after the SEC's action.
The ban's most significant impact was to cut in half the trading volume in stocks on the list by removing a big class of buyers who look to hedge their investments, often using short sales. Fast-trading computer-driven hedge funds, which account for significant amounts of trading volume, curtailed their activity. The drop in trading appears to be resulting in wide price swings in stocks at crucial times such as the final minutes of trading.
In addition, the gap between the price at which a stock can be bought or sold at any moment has widened, an indication that markets are working less smoothly. The SEC's rule changes have also been felt in the market for stock options, a commonly used tool for investors looking to offset risks in a portfolio.
Short sellers seek to profit from a stock's decline by selling borrowed shares and replacing them at a lower price. Bank executives blamed short sellers for the declines in stocks, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which collapsed just before the ban went into effect.
Two weeks ago, the SEC surprised many by banning short-selling in 799 financial stocks and required hedge-fund managers to disclose their short positions to the agency. The no-short list has now been expanded to include unlikely names such as International Business Machines Corp. and CVS Caremark Corp. and now covers nearly one-fifth of regularly traded stocks listed on U.S. exchanges.
But in the two weeks of the ban's existence, stocks including National City Corp. and Sovereign Bancorp Inc. suffered declines that at certain points this week topped 70%. Washington Mutual Inc. failed and was taken over, and Wachovia Corp. was forced to sell itself to Citigroup Inc. Stocks such as Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. lost 25% in two days, and premier names such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley saw their shares take dramatic drops, which contributed to their decisions to seek approval to become banks.
SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has been under increasing pressure since the collapse of Bear Stearns on his watch. Wall Street firms were agitating for the SEC to address what they said were a combination of false rumors and short selling to manipulate their companies' stocks. Some executives wanted Mr. Cox to use the bully pulpit to let short sellers know the SEC enforcement staff was investigating.
Mr. Cox eventually did, in July, and followed that up with the emergency short-selling order on the 19 financial companies.
Despite the criticism, the SEC extended the ban but didn't respond to industry calls to narrow the contours, including carving out exemptions for hedging strategies for the convertible bond market, which has essentially been shut down since the rule.
Despite the finger-pointing, there were never that many shares sold short on most financial stocks. Credit Suisse analysts noted that a bigger percentage of shares were sold short in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. than in 625 of the stocks on the list. Short interest in Goldman Sachs was 3% of the tradable shares and 4% for Morgan Stanley.
The clearest impact was on trading volume. Between Sept. 22 and Sept. 29, overall trading volumes fell 41.1% from the week of Sept. 15-19, according to a Sandler O'Neill & Partners report. But volume in the restricted stocks is down 49.6%. That has made trading less efficient, participants say, which in turn makes it more costly for investors by lowering the prices at which they can sell and raising the prices at which they can buy.
With volume lower "there are fewer bids and offers in the market, which means less quote competition," said Credit Suisse analyst Ana Avramovic in a report released this week. "It seems that the temporary restriction on short selling has made it more costly, on average, to trade these names," she wrote.
The Credit Suisse analysis found that for the 950 stocks on the restricted list, the average gap between prices at which investors are willing to buy and sell -- known as a "bid-ask" spread -- is nearly 0.40 percentage points, up from about 0.15 percentage points in the first eight months of 2008.
That adds up over millions of transactions. For example, with IBM shares trading at $115, if the spread were 0.15 percentage points, an investor would forfeit roughly 17 cents to buy or sell a share of stock. At the nearly 0.40 percentage point spread, the cost to an investor would be roughly 46 cents a share.
Meanwhile, price swings have become more magnified. Over the course of the day, the volatility of individual stocks since the short-selling ban was enacted has often been twice that seen during a sample period in early August, Credit Suisse found.
End-of-day trading -- which is often volatile -- has been especially unpredictable for stocks on the list. On Tuesday shares of MetLife Inc. were trading at just over $50 a share at 3:55 p.m. In the final two minutes, however, the price spiked to $52 and then hit $56 on the final trade listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The options market has been the scene of more disruptions, not just from the no-short rule, but also from a tightening of other short-selling restrictions announced by the SEC. The end result was that spreads between bids and offers widened considerably, options volume declined and several brokerage firms limited the types of transactions their customers could conduct.
All of this while the broad impact on stock prices has been minimal. The median decline suffered by stocks on the original restricted list is 2.5% since the ban was put in place through Tuesday night. The S&P 500, meanwhile, was down 3.5%.
Write to Tom Lauricella at tom.lauricella@wsj.com, Kara Scannell at kara.scannell@wsj.com and Tennille Tracy at tennille.tracy@dowjones.com
A Federal Probe of Fannie and Freddie
The mortgage giants have received grand-jury subpoenas on accounting and governance matters as the FBI widens its financial probe
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linkedin connections There's nothing quite like a crisis to draw investigators looking for criminal action.
So it is now for the latest targets of various investigations: Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), the residential financing powerhouses whose accounting and disclosure records are being examined by a federal grand jury in New York. They join a corporate who's who of players swept up in the cascading economic crisis that also find themselves the subject of scrutiny by the FBI and others, from Lehman Brothers and insurer American International Group (AIG) to failed IndyMac Bancorp and mortgage lender Countrywide Financial.
In Freddie's case, the grand jury is focusing on "accounting, disclosure, and corporate governance matters" since January 2007, the McLean (Va.)-based company confirmed Sept. 30. Freddie said it received a subpoena on Sept. 26 from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, as well as a notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission informing it of a separate inquiry. In both instances, the company was asked to preserve documents.
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"Freddie Mac will cooperate fully," the company said in a statement. Fannie disclosed it had received a subpoena as well, in filings with the SEC.
Altogether, in the past year, some 26 companies with roles in the financial crisis have come under investigation, often because of suspected fraud. The SEC and Justice Dept. have declined to comment on the investigations. The FBI appears to have expanded its investigations not only to mortgage lenders but also investment banks, especially those that bundled home loans into securities. Among the current cases is one involving Bear Stearns; two former managers were arrested in June on securities fraud and other charges.
As long as 10 months ago, press reports suggested that Fannie masked potential losses on bad loans by using new accounting procedures. Both Fannie and Freddie have had to restate earnings in past years, following discoveries by federal regulators of irregularities on the companies' books.
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A number of members of Congress, including several on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have urged the FBI to be more aggressive in pursuing possible criminal charges against major players in the crisis. "If people were cooking the books, manipulating, doing things they were not supposed to do, then I want people held responsible," said Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee's chairman, at a Sept. 17 oversight hearing on the FBI. "And I suspect every American taxpayer—I don't care what their political background is—would like them held responsible."
Presidential candidate John McCain is doing his part to leverage what he considers Democrats' responsibility for the failure of Fannie and Freddie. In a new national TV ad, McCain blames Democratic rival Barack Obama for failing to take action as the companies floundered. "John McCain fought to rein in Fannie and Freddie," the ad states. "Obama was notably silent."
The ad makes no mention of the McCain campaign's own connections to Freddie and Fannie. The lobbying firm of McCain's campaign chairman, Rick Davis, received more than $2 million since 2000 from Freddie; starting in late 2005 or early 2006, Freddie paid $15,000 a month. Both Freddie and Fannie paid Davis some $30,000 monthly from 2000 to 2005 for running an organization promoting homeownership.
Epstein is a correspondent in BusinessWeek's Washington bureau.
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Looks like we may close around 1.60 Not bad for the way the overall market id today!
Just a little good speach from Bush and we move higher!!
Looks like we've settled down a bit here. Steady as she goes!
Looking better thank god!!
Me too!! Good luck
Better be carefull selling the peaks, because it may not dip one of these peaks!!! Good luck!
FNM bouncing back also off of .35 low. Now .43
Looks like we needed to fill the gap up this AM. Bouncing back now! Good luck to all. igor
I'm thinking it will be next week before we hear anything on the bids. They said 10 days in the PR and that PR was Tuesday. So that should put us around Tues or Wednesday next week. Good luck to us all! igor
Looking better now! Looks like we may just make it green today. Good luck to all of us!! igor
Down on low volume is okay. We will go back up later today!!
.001 x .0013 Looking beautiful!!!
.045 looking good!!
Good morning all. UNDT looking a bit better today! Let's hope in continues. Take care all.
Yes indeed, you got that right!! Take care
read my prior post
UNDT NEWS!! Universal Detection Technology Releases Corporate Update From Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Last update: 7:01 a.m. EDT July 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA, Jul 29, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Universal Detection Technology ( www.udetection.com) (UNDT:universal detection technolo com new
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UNDT 0.10, +0.04, +66.7%) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, today reported the following corporate update from the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
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-- Marketing of BSM-2000, UNDT's Anthrax Detector
-- Increasing Threat of Bio-Terrorism
-- The Threat of an Airborne Anthrax Attack and Current Defense Systems
-- Beijing Olympics
-- The Threat of Ricin and UNDT's Solution
-- CBRN
-- Department of Homeland Security
-- MRSA
-- Stock Split and Symbol Change
Dear Shareholder:
It is unfortunate that we are living under the threat of terrorism and biological warfare. What's of greatest concern is the lack of proper preparation at various levels for dealing with a potential attack with these deadly agents. Consequently, we have intensified our efforts to address the growing need to protect our families and businesses.
As a result of these efforts, I am pleased to report the progress we have made in the past year. In conjunction with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), we have successfully completed the development phase of our BSM-2000 bacterial and anthrax spore monitoring and detection device. We are now establishing our domestic and international marketing and sales programs. The purpose of this communication is to provide you with an update of our recent efforts as well as our vision of the road ahead and our future plans.
Marketing of BSM-2000, UNDT's Anthrax Detection System
We launched a prototype of our BSM-2000, Anthrax Detection System in 2004 and have now produced a commercially available device. We are committed to further research for acquisition of new technologies and for enhancing the performance of BSM-2000. In order to market the device to the US Federal Government, in the past we have engaged in direct marketing as well as marketing through intermediaries to Federal and State Governments. While we have not sold any units of BSM-2000 in the US, we are in talks with third parties to collaborate on ways to market, sell, and distribute this technology internationally.
Increasing Threat of Bio-Terrorism
The risk of a large-scale biological attack on the Nation is significant. It is well known that terrorists have sought to use chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons as instruments of their warfare, and that the capability is within their reach. A recent Government analysis indicates that anthrax is a likely choice of pathogen; and a successful single-city attack on an unprepared population could kill hundreds of thousands of citizens. A coordinated attack on multiple targets would come much closer in magnitude to our enemy's goal.
The Threat of an Airborne Anthrax Attack and Our Defense System
The threat of an aerosolized anthrax attack is the nation's number one bioterrorism concern, and it is that threat which should be vigorously planned for, and invested in, with the intent to defeat. The ramifications of such an attack include tremendous loss of life, economic costs, damage to critical infrastructure, and unprecedented environmental contamination. UNDT's technology is perfectly suited to fill the technology gap that exists in the nation's biodetection infrastructure. Current technologies in use are either cost-prohibitive for mass-deployment or hampered with inaccuracies and high false positive rates. UNDT's technology has been reviewed by government agencies and the conclusion has been that the BSM-2000 can rapidly and accurately detect harmful spores in the air at a fraction of the cost of systems based on DNA analysis.
Beijing Olympics
UNDT received separate contracts to provide radiological and biological detection instruments for use for site protection at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The radiological detection equipment will be used for search and identification of gamma and neutron radioactive materials. The instruments feature the capability to identify the detected isotopes and characterize categories from medical, industrial, natural occurring radioactive materials (NORM) and special nuclear materials (SNM). UNDT's biological detection equipment are designed to detect Anthrax, Ricin, Botulinum Toxin, Plague and SEB's in as little as 3 minutes. UNDT also received a contract to provide training equipment for the biological detection system. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) is responsible for all aspects of security for the Olympics. BOCOG plans to deploy 80,000 security personal for the Olympics.
The Threat of Ricin and Our Solution
Ricin is one of the most toxic and easily produced plant toxins. It has been used in the past as a bioterrorist weapon and remains a serious threat as seen in the March 2008 incident in Las Vegas. If injected, as little as 500 micrograms of ricin could be enough to kill an adult; some animal research indicates that similar amounts could be lethal, if inhaled. UNDT's hand-held Ricin detection kit can detect Ricin powder on a surface or in a liquid in as little as 3 minutes. The kits have been used by law enforced and private security firms throughout the country.
CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear)
By partnering with industry leaders in the CBRN detection field, UNDT has increased the range of products available to its users and customers. These products include state-of-the-art biological and radiological detection equipment. UNDT has generated sales from the marketing of these products.
Our Ongoing Dialogue With the US Department of Homeland Security
Through attending DHS sponsored conferences, and private meetings with DHS officials UNDT has increased the level of involvement with the DHS. Earlier this month, UNDT submitted an application for SAFETY Act Developmental Testing and Evaluation Designation (DT&E) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Once granted the designation will afford both the company and its customers protection from any potential liabilities in the testing of its BSM-2000 System. UNDT is also in the process of submitting an Operational Requirements Document (ORD) to the DHS based on the department's recommendation. By submitting an ORD, a company becomes eligible to apply for a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security through the SECURE Program to develop products and/or services.
MRSA
In the past year we have also expanded our product base by offering products that can be used to eliminate Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). The MRSA microbe, a strain of a once harmless staph bacterium that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics, is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections and nearly 19,000 deaths each year. UNDT had received orders for its anti-MRSA products from hospitals, nursing homes, and private medical practitioners.
Stock Split and Symbol Change
Effective July 28, 2008, Universal Detection Technology undertook a 200:1 reverse stock split. As a result, there are now about 15 million shares of common stock of the Company outstanding. In conjunction with the split, the symbol on the OTCBB has changed to UNDT.OB.
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Jacques Tizabi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Universal Detection Technology
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Email us at info@udetection.com.
About Universal Detection Technology
Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bioterrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development partners is positioned to capitalize on opportunities related to Homeland Security. For example, the Company, in cooperation with NASA, has developed a bacterial spore detector that detects certain biohazard substances. The Company is also a reseller of handheld assays used for detection of five bioterrorism agents, radiation detection systems, and antimicrobial products. For more information, please visit http://www.udetection.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectations.
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I talked to customer service at ameritrade last night and they told me the symbol change will take effect when they receive the shares from UNDT. It usually take a day or two, but sometimes up to 2 weeks. Hope this helps!!
.11 now!!!
Additional contract! Universal Detection Technology Receives Additional Contract to Provide Bioterrorism Training Equipment for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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LOS ANGELES, Jul 24, 2008 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Universal Detection Technology ( www.udetection.com) (UDTT:universal detection technolo com
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UDTT 0.00, +0.00, +50.0%) (Frankfurt: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that it has received an additional contract to provide bioterrorism training equipment for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The equipment is designed to mimic a real-time biological attack thus preparing first responders in the proper use and handling of Bio-terrorism detection equipment.
There have been recent reports of terrorist activity in China. The Chinese Government has warned that terrorists pose the biggest risk to this summer's Olympics Games in Beijing. Officials say they foiled two plots, one to bring down an airliner, and another to disrupt the summer games. The Chinese government has also stepped up efforts in bio-security to ward off possible bioterrorism during the coming Olympics.
UDTT's simulation/trainer equipment and threat simulation powders are designed to mimic a bio-threat event that illustrates all potential outcomes of the 5-agent test device. UDTT had previously received a contract to supply 5-agent test equipment for the Beijing Olympics. The 5-agent testing kit is designed to test for Anthrax, Ricin, Botulinum Toxin, Plague and SEB's in as little as 3 minutes.
"The contract for the bio-terrorism training equipment completes the series of contracts we received providing anti-terror equipment for the Beijing Olympics that included radiological and bio-weapon detection equipment," said Mr. Jacques Tizabi, UDTT's Chief Executive Officer.
For more information please visit our website at www.udetection.com or
Email us at info@udetection.com.
About Universal Detection Technology
Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bioterrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development partners is positioned to capitalize on opportunities related to Homeland Security. For example, the Company, in cooperation with NASA, has developed a bacterial spore detector that detects certain biohazard substances. The Company is also a reseller of handheld assays used for detection of five bioterrorism agents, radiation detection systems, and antimicrobial products. For more information, please visit www.udetection.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectations.
This news release was distributed by PrimeNewswire, www.primenewswire.com
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I'm in also. 750k at .0004 The olympics should be a good thing for UDTT. Good luck all!
News! Pine Ridge Holdings/ServeNation Sales Strategy Launched
Last update: 9:01 a.m. EDT July 2, 2008
FORT WAYNE, IN, Jul 02, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Pine Ridge Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PINR) CEO Kevin May announced that today ServeNation started the sales and marketing campaign designed by its new V.P. of Sales, Andrew Maley. Maley was hired to develop a rapid sales strategy for the spin-off strategy recently announced by the company. Reviewing all of the corporate goals, Maley worked through the weekend to develop the most effective and efficient strategy.
"Today we launch a simple but I believe highly effective sales strategy," Maley explained. "Kevin wanted a strategy to quickly show the value of ServeNation so it could be brought to market as soon as possible. 500 on-line gift card stores by November 1 is the goal that he has given to achieve all of the sales goals needed to create a significant valuation. Therefore, I have developed a plan to hit 1,000 stores by November 1. To reach this goal, ServeNation has acquired phone and email records of 1.7 million U.S. non-profits. We will turn this into a numbers game, contacting 2,500 non-profits every week."
Maley continued, "Kevin has asked for an aggressive strategy comprised of three parts: 1) the hiring of 15 independent contractors to penetrate high opportunity areas of the country. This week I hired #10 -- a new contractor for the Indianapolis region. 2) to manage growing incoming requests and add new ServeNation stores by November 1 to take advantage of the $26 billion holiday gift card market. This is the critical part of my strategy (as described above). It is estimated that 500 active gift card stores will generate more than 100 orders per day. 3) aid in the education of consumers using the store. On-line tools are being developed and will be added as they are completed."
Maley concluded, "I am also thankful to Kevin for the use of Pine Ridge employees, which has already started. They will prove invaluable as we market to such a large number of non-profits. I will share additional parts of our plan in the weeks ahead. As I shared before, this really is a numbers game. Whether it is 1,000 stores, 3,000 customers with recurring orders or 500 businesses helping non-profits, there are a lot of ways to hit Kevin's goals -- and I plan to use every strategy possible."
Shareholders are encouraged to visit http://www.pineridgeholdings.com. As information becomes available, it will be posted on the PINR website.
This press release contains certain "forward-looking" statements, as defined in the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Statements, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements. The Company, through its management, makes forward-looking public statements concerning its expected future operations, performance and other developments. Such forward-looking statements are necessary estimates reflecting the Company's best judgment based upon current information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and there can be no factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the Company. They include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to develop operations, the Company's ability to consummate and complete the acquisition, the Company's access to future capital, the successful integration of acquired companies, government regulation, managing and maintaining growth, the effect of adverse publicity, litigation, competition, sales and other factors that may be identified from time to time in the Company's public announcements.
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Bid uptick to .0005 Looking good!!! igor88
With almost all trades at .0003 seems like we should uptick soon!! igor88
Great news out!! We still have the finalization of serve nation to come as well. Should move higher with this news today. Take care all.
MM'S bringing this down on low volume. Should move upward later on. imo!!