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Apart from cardiovascular, was there any further discrimination as to cause of death - like falling off a bike? Seriously, was e.g., cancer a factor in any population?
Disconcerting.
Neither. I use the scale to practice handstands, actually.
I'm guessing the time might be coming shortly that this stock gets out of the manure pile and does something.
Thanks, Peter. Do you have a link to the more recent studies?
My interest is based on the fact that I'm 6'2" and 152 pounds, lol.
Is there any hint anywhere that the results might extend to non-diabetics?
Praising with faint damns.
Is there any indication of imminent default by Argentina in its current obligations?
I'd agree the YPF story does not inspire confidence.
FCPG
Do you realize that yesterday's turnover amounted to less than $5k?
Gordon, you used to be a heavier hitter than that.
You are most certainly right. I was only semi serious, if that.
I wonder if others weren't also banking on the 10b5-1 hiatus being significant?
How could you even start to triage such an encyclopedic list to make it useful?!
What's the advantage over Pradaxa (which I'm on, to my financial ruin)? Bleeding events?
By not panicking I have lost no money
The delusion that you haven't lost money unless you sell is one of the worst newbie fallacies of all.
Don Juan?
Has PPHM ever been readily borrowable in recent weeks? Maybe it has, just asking.
YHOO has short shares at under 5MM, SCH has it as "hard to borrow", which means don't ask.
Now out
When PPHM opened around .7 I was confident it would revisit the early summer lows around .5. It didn't and IMO today's action with such volume (that's a lot of suckers) deserves respect. So I went in this a.m., but will be out before COB today, if not well before.
EDIT - for the record, I've never been to the PPHM board in my life. It doesn't appear I've missed much, esp as the laughable posts get reposted here.
I don't own NVS at present, so I don't follow it as I should, but I'm not surprised an SA piece is not of rigorously high quality
BBC came out with a thought provoking factoid yesterday. At present China has 6 workers for every retiree. In 25 years the ratio will be 2 workers for every retiree.
If accurate...........
The question remains - is he ill, or has there been a palace coup? If the latter, was it connected with Bo Xilai?
Idle speculation. It's not our place to know what goes on in the Forbidden City, but it's fun to speculate.
ARRY
I was taking a very short term view (two weeks or so) which shows a serious loss of momentum. These sorts of rounded tops are regarded as Bad Things by many technicians.
I hope I'm wrong.
They also have BMW's,it is reported.
ARRY has been looking weak lately.
Damn weak, like it's rolling over and wants to die
Has HIFU been approved here in the U.S.?
That Sally Church writeup is an example of damning with faint, very faint praise.
.... And PS ... My lifelong friend was the first person infused with chimeric bavi at the Godofsky Ceneter here in Sarasota Florida, for his severe HCV infection, and within short period of time, was healthy, back in the gym, jaunicide gone, and he is over 200 lbs again ... But he is unable to speak about it due to confidentiality papers signed prior to his inclusion and then infusions .
If true - and it's perhaps too good to be true - this might be as significant as any anti cancer action.
The CS guy must be discomfited - any customers who followed his advice are out serious money in CLF.
I went long CLF on Tuesday, which I reported here. I have a nice gain even at the current bid, and will bank it today if the stock's behavior suggests that to be the prudent thing to do.
Not helpful.
For the year-to-date, Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.’s (NYSE:CLF) shares are down 44.31 percent. On Wednesday, the company’s stock had been downgraded by Credit Suisse analysts. The firm cut it from a “Neutral” rating to “Underperform;” it also cut its price target to $30. This represents an 11 percent downside to Tuesday’s closing stock price of $33.68.
Credit Suisse said the downgrade comes from company’s exposure to the large drop in iron ore prices.
From the stock’s downgrade, will Cliffs Natural Resources largest shareholders cut their holdings? 611 institutional firms indicated owning shares of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE:CLF) in Q2 2012. These firms reported owning a total of 126.93 million shares on 06/30/2012. The shares closed at $48.60 on 06/30/2012.
Here are the ten largest positions in Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. at the end of June 30th, 2012.
Capital World Investors held 17,341,700 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $854,772,409. This brought the portfolio total to 0.32%.
Vanguard Group Inc held 7,997,615 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $394,202,451. This brought the portfolio total to 0.05%.
State Street Corp held 6,294,742 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $310,267,839. This brought the portfolio total to 0.05%.
Blackrock Institutional Trust Company N.A. held 3,724,339 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $183,572,673. This brought the portfolio total to 0.04%.
VAN ECK Associates Corp held 2,578,928 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $127,115,363. This brought the portfolio total to 0.64%.
Herndon Capital Management held 2,551,376 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $125,757,325. This brought the portfolio total to 2.57%.
I.G. Investment Management Ltd. held 2,347,740 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $115,720,107. This brought the portfolio total to 0.51%.
Calamos Advisors LLC held 2,263,168 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $111,551,553. This brought the portfolio total to 0.55%.
TIAA Cref Investment Management LLC held 2,150,825 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $106,014,166. This brought the portfolio total to 0.1%.
Susquehanna International Group LLP held 2,055,200 shares on 06/30/2012 worth $101,301. This brought the portfolio total to 0.0%.
Don't have the sound on, but CNBC is running a story - Iron Ore - The New Economic Indicator!
Not too far off.
I don't, really. My only miner is VALE, at less than 1.5% of portfolio. The CLF blunder was based on the presumption that a stock down nearly 10% in a week was more likely to bounce than continue to deflate. So far, not a good presumption.
My underlying view is China oriented as in the following from the FT. Gotta stop giving those fairies reason upon reason to die.
Every time a child says (s)he doesn’t believe in fairies, a fairy dies. China bulls are likewise endangered, since each set of poor economic data makes it harder to believe that a pick-up is around the corner. Earlier this year, optimists thought the slowdown in China would be slight. That evolved into a first-six-months-down, second-half-recovery story. Nearing the end of the third quarter the numbers are worsening.
Manufacturing activity data for August were unambiguously bad. Both purchasing managers’ indices – the official one and the HSBC one – were below 50, indicating contraction. Companies large (the official survey) and small (HSBC’s survey) felt the effects. This is not a case of waiting for official stimulus to trickle down from the big groups. Some of the blame can be laid on the weak global economy, namely the slowdown in the west and its damping effect on demand. But that is not the whole story.
China manufacturing
Take new orders, which shrank further last month. Yet new export orders were unchanged. In other words, the slowdown this time was domestic. That makes policy action even more likely. Markets brightened on the mere possibility. But that is short-sighted since the slowdown has exposed a bigger, structural question for investors: has corporate China learnt to manage production for anything other than boom-year breakneck growth? The growing stockpiles suggest not: the build-up among Hong Kong giants and smaller Chinese groups is worse than in the post-Lehman slump. It looks even more ill-disciplined next to regional competitors. <snip>
Bought some CLF @ 33.64, not surehow long I'll hold. It would be hard to argue the pricing situation is safe from lurking reefs.
I wish this wasn't part of my daily fare in the FT - it's a recent drumbeat.
Chinese manufacturing hits nine-month low
PMI points to more serious downturn
As long as you can get by the argument re the sustainability of the dividend as laid out in the recent SA article (http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79162540) CLF at nearly 7% yield is indeed a "you would think" and a hell of a buy.
My horse for now is VALE, but I may try to ride tandem for a while.
FT Alphaville
Whether it's oversupply or reduced demand may not matter - the price is down.
Iron ore, an alternative view
Posted by Izabella Kaminska on Aug 31 18:45. 9 comments | Share
The following comes from Icap’s shipping team on Friday:
The carefully engineered economic slowdown in China is a fact clearly expressed in the recent readings of some key economic indicators. However, we fail to see any affirmative sign of a weakness in the structural demand for iron ore and other raw materials key for industrial output.
Wait… what?
Wasn’t the spot price of iron ore supposed to be down some 35 per cent year to date?
Let’s allow Icap to explain their thinking:
The imports of iron ore into China in H1 2012 are 9.3 per cent above the same period last year and domestic crude steel production is up 1.5 per cent y-o-u. Additionally coal imports, both thermal and metallurgical, for Jan-July period are up 51.3% y-0-y… All this is perfectly in line with our own projections for trade in 2012, which have changed much since Dec 2011.
In other words, if there is any slowdown in China, it is certainly not negatively affecting the major bulk trade flows into the country and therefore the related shipping market. In fact, it is quite the opposite. If we also compare the y-o-y result of iron ore imports into South Korea and Japan, the picture becomes even more confusing for some — Japanese iron ore imports in H1 2012 as up 4.4% and South Korea imports are up 4.7% compared to H1 2011.. No surprise global steel production is up nearly 1% y-o-y then!
Which means if anything we’re seeing a supply side shock, which most importantly is not impacting consumption.
As Icap go on:
We also find it astonishing that very few, if any, of the market observers even mention the role which the supply of commodity plays in the price formation mechanism. All major miners are recording record output and export numbers. Australian iron ore exports for example are up 16.5% y-o-y (Jan-June period), Brazil is up 2.5%, while Saldanha Bay is up nearly 11%!
All this combined with the fact that demand for iron ore outside of Asia is subdued, points towards a very different picture. In other words, we believe that it is not weak demand for iron ore but the abundant supply which is causing the current price squeeze.
Though there’s no denying that much of that ‘consumption’ is ending up in inventories sitting at port:
Bar the metal’s possible use as collateral, it seems that for now at least ‘too much supply’ is translating into hoarding tendencies, rather than satiation.
And Vale not too far behind at 6.22%
From SA, on BHP's decision to divest itself of an uranium project in Australia. It's not really clear whether this is a simple market decision or whether the fear of a return of the Labour party and attendant hassles also played a role.
Shamed to confess I decided PCYC was fully priced at 31.
Merrill
Questcor (QCOR) has been added to the US 1 list today. Regeneron (REGN) has been removed. Today's closing price will be the addition/removal prices for the stocks.
I've always thought of VALE as a supplier to ex-Brazil markets.