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Didnt get you bounce? I might have got your sell.
Whats changed? except I was away today.
Nice move Aaron! congrats
Nice buying op you took advantage of!
What kind of gap are you after?
MagMinerals Inc. intends to build, own, and operate a stand-alone potash plant. The proposed plant site, near the village of Mengo, is located 16 kilometers east of the Atlantic port city of Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo. Pointe-Noire, West Africa’s best deep-water port, has successfully served as the operations base for major international oil companies for the past 30 years.
From Pointe Noire, the shipping time to Brazil, one of the world’s largest importers of potash, is substantially lower than competing suppliers. MagMinerals would also have the lowest freight cost of any supplier to West Africa and South Africa and competitive rates to Southern Europe and North Africa.
http://www.magindustries.com/detail.php?id=510
ORCOS PROJECT:
Ever Marquez Amado
Position: Vice President Exploration
Mr. Marquez is an exploration geologist with a brilliant 17 year career in mineral exploration. He joins Condor from Newmont Peru Limited, where he held the position of Chief Exploration Geologist for the Andes of South America, and was recognized by Newmont as the recipient of their prestigious and highest distinction "Exploration 2006 Discovery Recognition Award" for his discovery of the Breapampa-Andrea high grade gold-silver district in southern Peru.
Porn for Geo's!!!!
Cormark buying again
ya I recall you selling BMC just before the big run :)
ah well I got $1.99 for a few
still like the fact MAA will beat ALM and API to production with solution mine and close to markets
Good program on now about India food supply http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html#
will repeat next hour from Vancouver or Victoria feed
MAA showing the signs, just needs a TIC TOC from John
House Positions
Exch House Bought $Value Ave Sold $Value Ave Net $Net
V 1 Anonymous 64,800 128,888 1.99 9,800 18,993 1.94 55,000 -109,895
V 5 Penson 12,000 24,000 2.00 0 12,000 -24,000
V 73 Cormark 1,283,600 2,567,018 2.00 1,272,000 2,544,000 2.00 11,600 -23,018
V 2 RBC 1,500 3,000 2.00 0 1,500 -3,000
V 83 Research Cap 0 1,000 1,920 1.92 -1,000 1,920
V 7 TD Sec 0 2,500 4,975 1.99 -2,500 4,975
V 88 E-TRADE 0 5,000 9,950 1.99 -5,000 9,950
V 9 BMO Nesbitt 0 6,600 13,068 1.98 -6,600 13,068
V 27 Dundee 17,700 35,400 2.00 25,000 50,000 2.00 -7,300 14,600
V 16 Paradigm 500,000 955,000 1.91 510,000 975,000 1.91 -10,000 20,000
V 79 CIBC 0 47,700 95,400 2.00 -47,700 95,400
Total 1,879,600 3,713,306 1.98 1,879,600 3,713,306 1.98 0 0
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh I meant near term, very near term
your wants will be taken care of eventually :)
will January repeat what happened in Nov and Dec?
we need to close below $4 and shake out the antsi pantsi's before we see $5?
Tahera Diamond TAH what a great tax loss play that was...
Other threads for economic discussion enough of that here
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=3979
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=7285
Possibly someone with placement shares wanted to take profit but did not want to sell into the open market and push down the price so a buyer was found for the whole lot.
In this scenario it is reasonable to assume the buyer got a some what reduced price but the seller gets more profit then open market. The shares are now in stronger hands.
Thats my bullish take on crosses.
May as well get used to those purple mountains on the horizon GW, thanks for the chart.
Very nice!...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=25538169
Ceres Global Ag Corp...The idea is to generate long-term capital appreciation, "through global exposure to agricultural assets involved in the supply and demand chains of the agricultural sector and sector influenced industries." The manager -- Front Street Capital -- is allowed to pick companies involved in crop and animal production, agrichemicals and fertilizers, farm machinery, equipment, transportation and storage, food processing, distribution and retailing, biofuels and other agribusinesses; and agricultural commodities. The manager is also allowed to invest in non-public companies.
They also have other small cap resource funds which may have taken shares http://www.frontstreetcapital.com/fund_prices/index.htm
The company appreciates the strong commitment provided by Front Street Capital and Ceres Global Ag Corp., and welcomes them as shareholders.
Nice to see he will be moving things along...
The proceeds from the placement will be used to expedite the development of the company's Legacy potash project in Saskatchewan and for general corporate purposes.
Paul F. Matysek, president and chief executive officer of Potash One, said: "We are very pleased with the overwhelming level of interest that was expressed in the placement. We can now accelerate our development plans as we move into 2008."
09:41:03 V 0.90 -0.03 516,500 6 Union 6 Union K
Potash Corp soars, Cameco tumbles
Murray Lyons, Saskatchewan News Network; CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, January 07, 2008
SASKATOON -- Observers might be forgiven for wanting to quote Charles Dickens in describing the fortunes of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. and uranium producer Cameco Corp. in 2007.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times ...
Both Saskatoon-based firms are widely held and listed both on the Toronto and New York exchanges, but shareholders of each had a different ride during the year.
Men work about 600 metres (1,969 feet) below the surface at the Cameco McArthur River uranium mine site in northern
A graph of Potash Corp.'s share price looks like an expedition up Everest. The share price started at around $51 at the beginning of the year and rose well past $130.
It has managed to linger in the region of $125 as the year neared its end. All along the way up, the firm reported record quarterly sales and net profits.
This year, Potash Corp. overtook Toronto-based Barrick Gold to become Canada's highest-valued mining company by market capitalization, exceeding the gold miner by a healthy $7 billion.
Demand for fertilizer, particularly potash, grew in Asia and the Americas along with the rising demand for crops such as corn, soybeans and palm that are grown for both human consumption and processing into biofuels.
Asian potash buyers were paying $265 US a tonne out of Vancouver in November, a 44-per-cent year-over-year rise.
A graph of Cameco's share price showed the stock moving up steadily until mid-summer, when it hit a peak of $59.90, then a steady slide down to below $36 as the spot price of uranium slid.
Cameco reported more difficulties throughout its far-flung operations, including contamination under its key refining building in Port Hope, Ont., as well as a late-year underground flood that temporarily shut down the venerable Rabbit Lake operation in northern Saskatchewan.
Throughout the year, Cameco kept revising the time frame it would take to fully plug the major geological leak underground at the Cigar Lake project and move that high-grade deposit toward production, now not slated to begin until 2011.
Cameco recently provided a Cigar Lake update when it said its attempt to plug the water inflow with concrete plug had succeeded and it expected to be ready by February to do a test of how well that plug is holding and that work to control water inflow at Rabbit Lake was also successful.
Cameco executives might argue that the "worst of times" hardly applies to the company's quarter by quarter results in 2007.
Because of the big run-up in uranium prices, partly triggered by the Cigar Lake flood itself in October 2006, Cameco is headed for a year of record revenues and perhaps net earnings as well.
Besides the continuing problems with mines and uranium refineries that require environmental cleanups before operations can restart, Cameco's top executives spent part of the year playing defence, especially after a particularly harsh assessment by an analyst who referred to Cameco's head office, hived off in an industrial part of Saskatoon, as Sleepy Hollow for the inability of the company to make big acquisitions to broaden its global uranium reach.
Cameco president Jerry Grandey bristled at the notion and pointed out to analysts that Cameco's mine production should grow 80 per cent over the next nine years, reaching 36 million pounds of uranium by 2016, just through organic growth.
Analysts will be hoping 2008 is the year Cameco can prove that will happen by making the underground water go away.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/business_agriculture/story.html?id=a11d5cbc-f192-4a04-91d8-321ea1b0da79
here we go ^^^^^^
Western Wind Energy names Salama as subsidiary CEO
2007-12-11 03:50 MT - News Release
Mr. Jeffrey Ciachurski reports
APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRESIDENT OF SOLAR GENERATION INITIATIVE
Western Wind Energy Corp. has named George Salama as president and chief executive officer for its new subsidiary Western Solargenics Inc. Western Solargenics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Wind Energy, developing over $250-million of solar projects in California, USA, and Ontario, Canada. The projects are utility-size projects with prospective customers such as Southern California Edison and Ontario Power Authority. The subsidiary's unique approach of integrating the wind and solar technology distinguish Western Wind Energy and assures a very desirable generation profile for its projects, while maximizing the land use.
Over the past 15 years, Mr. Salama has led the development of over 2,000 megawatts of power projects in the United States, Canada and around the globe. Prior to joining Western Solargenics, Mr. Salama was with Southern California Edison where he led the negotiation of over 140 megawatts of renewable power projects including solar, wind, geothermal and biomass.
Mr. Salama is a professional electrical engineer and has extensive experience in power generation development with several major corporations such as Kansas City Power & Light, Westinghouse Power Generation, and other majors.
Granting of stock options
Western Wind Energy wishes to announce that it has granted stock options to an officer of the company to purchase 275,000 options exercisable at a price of $1.32 for a period of five years from the date of grant.
SONNENENERGY CORP. - http://www.sonnenenergy.com
We are a leading photovoltaic solar power systems integrator for residential and commercial customers. We are also a solar power producer. Over the last three years, we have installed photovoltaic solar power systems with total capacity in excess of 4,000 kWp. We own and operate one solar park in Germany, which produces power that is either sold to its local power utility, or sent directly into the electrical grid. With offices in Germany and Canada, we are expanding our business to offer our innovative, clean energy, solar power solutions globally.
Globe/DJ say ATS not a jolly good stock for Creststreet
2007-12-14 04:53 MT - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, Dec. 14, edition that Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund manager Steve Martin likes the solar energy industry. A Dow Jones dispatch to The Globe reports that Mr. Martin, however, sold his holdings in ATS Automation Tooling Systems. He sold the stock last month after the company continued its recent trend of disappointing results. The company is in a "show-me state," given its recent history of underperforming investors' expectations, says Mr. Martin. Creststreet's solar power exposure includes ARISE Technology, Day4 Energy, Timminco and Opel International. Each of these companies is focused on bringing down the costs of producing solar power and/or making the panels run more efficiently, says Mr. Martin. He believes solar power development is in an "accelerated growth phase." He says the cost to produce this power continues to fall. ATS Automation Tooling stock retreated 15 cents to close on the Toronto Stock Exchange Thursday at $4. The stock has a one-year trading range of $3.71 to $12.98. An unbylined Globe item was bullish on ATS's outlook on Nov. 30 when it was trading at $4.32. Goodwood Funds said investors could be richly rewarded.
Globe/DJ say Creststreet recommends Arise, others
2007-12-14 04:52 MT - In the News
See In the News (C-APV) ARISE Technologies Corp
The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, Dec. 14, edition that Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund manager Steve Martin is bullish on the whole solar energy industry, compared with other alternative energy groups, such as wind power. A Dow Jones dispatch to The Globe reports that Mr. Martin says solar power is more attractive than wind power because output is easier to expand. Solar panels work well on rooftops or in large-scale solar farms. In contrast, wind turbines need large areas to make power efficiently, says Mr. Martin. Creststreet's solar power exposure includes ARISE Technology, Day4 Energy, Timminco and Opel International. Each of these companies is focused on bringing down the costs of producing solar power and/or making the panels operate more efficiently, says Mr. Martin. He believes solar power development is in an "accelerated growth phase." He says the cost to produce this power continues to fall. He says the costs of solar power "are coming down a lot faster than they are for wind power, geothermal power or for some of the other areas." The high price for crude oil is spurring interest in alternative energy stocks, notes Mr. Martin.
Globe says Leeward sees opportunity in Duvernay Oil
2007-12-18 06:59 MT - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, Dec. 18, edition that Leeward Hedge Funds chief executive officer Brendan Kyne recommends buying Duvernay Oil. The Globe's Maureen Darrigo writes in the BNN Market Call column that Duvernay stock retreated three cents to close on the Toronto Stock Exchange Monday at $26. The stock has a one-year trading range of $23.91 to $42.40. Duvernay is involved in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and gas properties. Mr. Kyne says, "This company has a long-term track record of growth." Mr. Kyne recommends keeping cash nearby to take advantage of the opportunities in the market over the coming months. Mr. Kyne says global growth is slowing modestly. He looks to three contributing factors. First, the decimated United States mortgage market. Second, the policy of restrictive measures being introduced in China to control inflation. And lastly, the likely protectionist policies that nations will adopt in an attempt to "protect" domestic economies. He says: "In this environment true growth sectors stand out. The top sector for us is alternative energy, and solar energy as the area of high growth for next five years."
Globe says Garcea targets ARISE at $3.60
2007-12-21 05:45 MT - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, Dec. 21, edition that ARISE Technologies jumped 15 cents to close on the TSX Venture Exchange Thursday at $2.03. The Globe's Allan Robinson writes in the Eye On Equities column the stock has a one-year trading range of 41 cents to $3.30. ARISE is a solar energy technology company. ARISE will begin trading Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange after being delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange. The move should open it up to a broader array of shareholders, says Haywood Securities analyst Ralph Garcea. Mr. Garcea rates ARISE "sector outperform." Mr. Garcea targets the stock at $3.60. Creststreet Alternative Energy Fund manager Steve Martin said buy ARISE stock in The Globe on Dec. 14. At the time the stock was trading at $1.95. Mr. Martin said he was bullish on the whole solar energy industry, compared with other alternative energy groups, such as wind power. Clarus Securities analyst Carolina Vargas said she liked ARISE in The Globe on Sept. 9. She rated the stock "buy." It was then trading at $1.05.
Globe says director buys Carmanah's consumer solar unit
2008-01-03 03:35 MT - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that Carmanah Technologies is unloading its weak performing solar home power business to director David Egles for $1.5-million. The Globe's Richard Blackwell writes that Mr. Egles quit the Carmanah board to run the division as a private business. Mr. Egles joined Carmanah in 2005 when Carmanah bought his solar company Soltek Powersource. Soltek made solar systems to generate electricity for homes and businesses. The move added a large new enterprise to Carmanah's existing operations which specialized in solar-powered lighting and LED-illuminated signage. A soaring Canadian dollar and a surplus of high-cost inventory have hurt Carmanah's earnings. Carmanah said in November it wanted to sell some of its operations to focus on more profitable generic lines. The home solar power business was one of the units to go on the block. Carmanah plans to sell its designed solar lighting for transit systems. Mr. Egles will pay $500,000 in cash to Carmanah and return $1-million in shares to the company. Haywood Securities analyst Ralph Garcea targets Carmanah at $1.50. It closed Wednesday at $1.20. He rates the firm "sector perform."
Post/wire say Timminco shares leap on contract win
2007-12-21 06:36 MT - In the News
The Financial Post reports in a Reuters dispatch Friday that Timminco shares jumped to a record high Thursday. The unbylined item says the jump came after the specialty metals producer announced a contract win and the start of production at its solar silicon-producing unit at Becancour, Que. Timminco, which is 50.6 per cent owned by Dutch company Advanced Metallurgical Group, said on Wednesday its Becancour Silicon subsidiary has agreed to supply about 4,400 tonnes of solar-grade silicon over five years to an unnamed solar-cell maker. Separately, the company said it had started production on the first line at its Becancour facility, where two more lines are under construction. As part of the latest contract, the company will add further capacity. The shares closed up $2.95 Thursday at $18.53 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
XE nice run since October
Intrepid Potash files for $100 million IPO
Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:56pm EST
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Intrepid Potash Inc filed with regulators on Thursday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
The company, a producer of minerals containing potassium, which is essential for plant formation and growth, said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that Morgan Stanley is underwriting the IPO.
The filing did not say how many shares the company plans to sell or at what price. It said Intrepid Potash plans to list its stock on a national securities exchange, but did not specify which one.
http://www.intrepidpotash.com/about/main.html
Food insecurity in developing countries
Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin
In a world where obesity is epidemic in some countries, 25,000 people die daily of hunger and poverty in others. Some 840 million people in the world don't have enough food for their daily needs. The great majority of them -- 799 million -- live in developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Food is a constantly threatened commodity in poor countries due to the pressures of population, under-investment in infrastructure, degradation of the environment, manipulation of trade and international market by the rich countries, and the constraints of natural resources. Added to it, natural calamities and trade-off between food and non-food items are worsening the menace.
Never before in human history has our planet been so densely populated as today. The present international consensus is that in the next thirty years the world population will swell to at least 8.2 billion. Already, today's 400 million or so subsistence farmers cannot feed the urban population of 1.5 billion; the 800 million subsistence farmers of the year 2025 will not possibly be able to feed 4 billion city dwellers. In the same period of time, the globe's ecological carrying capacity is expected to shrink.
The World Resources Institute estimates that since World War II, 1.2 billion hectares -- equivalent to about 10.5% of the world's agricultural land, or to the combined areas of China and India -- have been impaired as a consequence of human activity. The greatest damage has occurred in China (450 million hectares), followed by Africa (320 million hectares).
In Asia, ongoing urbanisation and industrialisation will reduce arable land per capita from today's 0.15 hectares to only 0.09 hectares by 2025. In the wake of its drive to industrialise, China alone is losing a million hectares of arable land yearly.
In the case of developing countries, investments in public goods and institutions to promote effective and efficient private markets, rural infrastructure, credit and savings institutions, primary education, primary health care and publicly funded agricultural research to generate knowledge and technology for the smallholder farming community are appallingly neglected.
Policies and institutions are absent to facilitate access by women to land and purchased inputs. The de facto importance of women in agriculture is largely unrecognised, leading to discriminatory policies and practices in land tenure and access to credit, inputs, technology, extension and education, and culminating in lower productivity.
Failure to achieve yield increases on land that is well suited for agricultural cultivation has pushed farmers into less suited areas, causing deforestation, land degradation and the unsustainable exploitation of surface and ground water. On the other hand, efforts to expand yields have frequently been based on the excessive and inappropriate use of fertilisers and pesticides, which in turn has damaged the environment, thus causing lower return.
Trade liberalisation has often been associated with starvation. A flood of cheap grains, in the short term, can destroy local productive capacity and leave poor people vulnerable. Rice production in Ghana collapsed following cheap US and Thai imports. In the mid 1990s, starvation in Haiti followed exposure to a flood of cheap, subsidised US rice. "Dumping" of subsided food is a serious problem for poor countries.
In the end it is not poor farmers that gain access to global markets, but big agribusiness do, and these corporations rely heavily on subsidies from wealthy governments. Developing countries participate in the WTO, looking for export opportunities, but are often bitterly disappointed by the "rigged rules." Trade liberalisation is always a complicated bargaining process, riddled with inequities, which frequently go against the poor.
Recently, there have been major strides in producing and using biofuels worldwide, especially in Brazil, China, India, the United States and South Africa, in response to climate change and rising oil prices. Today, Brazil is the second biggest producer of ethanol in the world (20 billion litres) after the United States (24 billion litres). One ton of sugarcane biogas can produce only 186 litres of ethanol, and is sadly taking away the food of many starved people.
As biofuels becoming increasingly profitable, more land, water and capital are being diverted to produce them, and some parts of the world are likely to face a trade-off between using those resources for the production of calorie and nutrient-rich food crops, or for the cultivation of fuel crops.
Another variety of biofuel, biodiesel is produced from a wide range of feedstock, including fresh soybean oil, mustard seed oil, vegetable oil, palm oil, rapeseed, sunflower, soybean, copra, palm and groundnut, making these grains scarce as food.
The incredible rise of biofuel production is already adversely affecting poor people in developing countries by increasing food prices. Biofuels that use food sources are costly for the poor, and raise prices on the basic foods that already represent a large share of poor people's household spending. With high prices, they will likely spend less on food, exacerbating poor diets and malnutrition.
The Green Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s led to huge increases in output, largely due to the cultivation of high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat, the expansion of land under production and irrigation, greater use of fertilisers and pesticides, and greater availability of credit. In many countries, these gains have reached their limit, and social and environmental issues must now be addressed.
Further increases in food production depend on better integration of traditional knowledge with research; improving farming practices through training and the use of technology to increase outputs from current land without further loss of productive land; land reform to provide secure access to land for more people; and the provision of low-cost finance to help farmers invest in higher quality seeds and fertilisers and small irrigation pumps.
We can realistically expect food security to be improved for an increasing number of people if sustained social and political reforms in the countries with deficits in food security are implemented.
If anything, for food security the principal focus should be on education. With education come new perspectives and a better frame of mind for implementing new techniques and understanding new technologies. It's all about new ideas and adapting to new situations. With education, one can learn a concept and adapt or modify it to work with whatever resources one possesses at any point of time.
Food is the only commodity that cannot be compromised under any circumstances. Despite its sheer importance, in most developing and under developed countries food always remains over-looked in developmental terms. But for humans to survive, food has to flow in incessantly, either by local production or through import.
The present trend of poor countries rapidly transforming from being exporters to net importers of food is clearly alarming. Today, we are prey to the whims of the richer countries for a share of their wealth, and, tomorrow, the need for a share of their food for our survival will cause us to fully surrender what is left our of esteem and freedom. There is no alternative to self-reliance for the existence of poor nations.
Eliminating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition is humankind's foremost challenge. Failure to meet the challenge will result in continued high levels of unnecessary human suffering, lost economic opportunities and an increasingly unstable world.
Dr Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin is a physician and specialist in Public Health Administration and Health Economics.
Bangladesh is an island of stability in South Asia, says government adviser
2008-01-02 12:55:35
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh is «an island of stability» in South Asia, the country's foreign affairs adviser said Wednesday, one year after political violence led to a state of emergency.
«We used to hear that we are a failed state. We have come far from there,» said Iftekhar A. Chowdhury, a former envoy to the United Nations who is now foreign affairs adviser to the country's interim government.
«In a turbulent region, Bangladesh is an island of stability.
Following weeks of violent opposition protests before general elections scheduled for Jan. 22, 2007, the president declared a state of emergency, postponed the polls and appointed a nonparty interim government.
That government, headed by former central bank chief Fakhruddin Ahmed, has the backing of the country's influential armed forces, and has received support from international development partners.
«Our aim has been to get the world community interested and involved in Bangladesh,» Chowdhury told reporters at a year-end briefing on the government's foreign policy.
Bangladesh saw a huge international response for emergency relief after a cyclone devastated the country's southern coast in November.
The government also mostly enjoys the support of a public fed up with political bickering, abuse of power and corruption.
A nationwide campaign against corruption and crime, which has put businessmen and top politicians _ including two former prime ministers _ behind bars, has widespread backing.
«My perception is we have got the whole nation behind us,» Chowdhury said of his government's main achievement.
But rising food and commodity prices, fertilizer and power shortages have plagued Ahmed's administration. Independent human rights groups, like Amnesty International, have also claimed abuses by security forces.
Officials blame the high prices on hikes in international markets. The government, meanwhile, has delegated troops to sell essential food items at controlled prices.
Chowdhury said human rights had to be part of any domestic policy.
«The government has to uphold human rights and stand against crimes against humanity in any form,» Chowdhury said, adding that the government had approved the formation of an independent human rights commission.
This part works for my portfolio...
But today we're also seeing a one-off structural change in global consumption (as a result of new demand from China and India) that could see slowing domestic economic growth coupled with rising costs for fuel and food.
The smart money isnt going to just dissapear its going to go where the demand is.
Despite the confusion about the economy’s strength, we’re confident that the Fed will be able to stave off a recession and that we will be able to profit...
http://navellier.com/commentary/weekly_marketmail.aspx
Those companies that beat estimates and provide strong forward guidance will attract a lot of buying pressure.
Many of the agriculture companies are already exhibiting this. This is evident if you look at the agriculture indexes. Most of them are up in 2008. Monsanto (MON), one of our core holdings, responded magnificently after its earnings report yesterday.
Despite the confusion about the economy’s strength, we’re confident that the Fed will be able to stave off a recession and that we will be able to profit from our fundamentally- superior holdings.
Hang in there.
Well done Aaron, this is like gold we can look at the open on your side for whats in store for our grassroots!