Slow Down… or Else By David Galland, Managing Editor, The Casey Report

On a whim following our Denver Summit – and despite truly abysmal weather – Casey Research CEO Olivier Garret and I cabbed it down to a local public golf course for a quick nine holes. Afterwards we were returning to the hotel through a neighborhood best described as poor, but not disreputable. While our cab made its way down a side street, a radar gun-wielding policeman leaped out of the bushes down the block, pulled the trigger, and waved our immigrant cab driver to the curb. The offense, we soon learned, was going five miles an hour over the speed limit in a school zone… well after school was out and with no other children in sight.

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If You Thought the Housing Meltdown Was Bad… Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, (Casey Research):

…wait until you see what’s in the cards for commercial real estate.

That’s right, the next train wreck will be in commercial real estate. Couldn’t be worse than last year’s residential market crash? That remains to be seen. But it’s coming soon, probably as early as the second quarter of next year, and there’s nothing that can prevent it. The government will intervene, trying desperately to delay the day of reckoning, and may even succeed. For a while. But make no mistake about it, that train is going off the tracks no matter what.

Every part of the sector – from multifamily apartment buildings to retail shopping centers, suburban office buildings, industrial facilities, and hotels – has accumulated a huge amount of defaulted or nonperforming paper. It’s an impossible, swaying structure that cannot long stand.

Just ask Andy Miller.

Andy

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Helped by the "first-time home buyer" tax credit and other forms of government assistance, home prices -- as measured by the Case Schiller Composite 20 index -- rose for the third straight month, up 0.97%, but still down 11.36% on a year-over-year basis, and off 29.89% from its May 2006 peak (note below when I reference peak levels they are from May 2006, not from the individual city peaks, which might have been a few months before or after the national peak). Since home prices do exhibit a fair amount of seasonality, I am working with the seasonally adjusted numbers. Most of the press has a habit of tracking the unadjusted numbers, which I feel is a mistake. So realize that the numbers presented here might be different from what you read in the newspaper tomorrow. A total of 16 of the 20 cities registered price increases, ...

Equinix, Inc., provider of global data center services, reported yesterday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of data center and Internet exchange services, for approximately $689 million in cash and stock. The acquisition represents a significant market expansion for Equinix and will expand the company’s market presence by adding 16 new markets across North America, including additional 34 data centers in 22 markets in the U.S. and Canada.

The combination of the two companies will further strengthen Equinix’s position in the global data center services market by extending the company’s presence to 16 new markets across North America. Equinix will integrate Switch and Data’s data center business and operations in the U.S. and Canada. It will also increase the Global presence of Equinix leaving the new combined entity with 79 data centers in 34 markets and more

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Janus Capital Group, Inc. (JNS) reported third-quarter 2009 revenues of $227.6 million, up 13.7% sequentially but down 17.3% year over year.

The sequential improvement in revenues was driven by higher average assets under management, primarily due to improving global markets.

Operating margin declined significantly to 13.0% in the quarter from 23.5% in the previous quarter and 33.9% in the year-ago quarter. The decline in operating margin was primarily due to a 29% sequential increase in operating expenses as a result of severance charges and higher revenue-based expenses. The company paid $20.5 million of legal settlement charges in the third quarter, mainly related to compensation matters with former employees.

Earnings per share of 5 cents were significantly short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate at 14 cents.

As of Sep 30, 2009, the company's total assets under management were $151.8 billion, compared with $132.6 billion on Jun 30, 2009 and $160.5 billion on Sep

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Novo Energies Corp., through its wholly-owned subsidiary WTL Renewable Energy, plans to build, own and operate renewable energy plants throughout North America. Using a novel technology, these plants will transform residual plastics and tires into valuable liquid low carbon fuels such as diesel, gasoline and fuel additives.

The company announced today that it has executed a ten-year supply contract to recycle tire feedstock with Colorado Tire Recycling LLC. Colorado Tire Recycling has agreed to supply tire derived fuel (TDF) chips to Novo for ten years beginning January 1, 2010. They will provide a minimum of 6,000 tons of TDF for the first year of the contract and a minimum of 12,000 tons per year thereafter, with a further option to increase supply.

TDF chips are the integral feedstock for Novo Energies’ novel process to convert tires into fuel and fuel additives. The company plans to construct its first tire-to-fuel plant in the

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Synergy Resources Corporation has completed its drilling program in Weld County, Colorado, announcing finalization of the initial seven wells. Synergy, whose corporate offices are in Platteville, Colorado, is an up-and-coming exploration and production company for domestic oil and natural gas. The majority of the company’s footprint consists of the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the 7th largest gas reserve field in the U.S.

According to the wireline and drillpipe logging data from Halliburton on the Meyer #3, 5, 6, and 8 wells drilled by Synergy, excellent log response was achieved for both of the primary targets: the Codell formation and all three benches of the Niobara formation. Production casing for these four wells has been set and tank battery construction is underway.

The Meyer #2, 4 and 7 wells, in addition to the aforementioned targets, also targeted the J-Sand formation. With Halliburton’s logs again detailing excellent penetration and uptake for the Codell/Niobara

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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTCBB: PWRM), a leader in neurodegenerative disease and cancer biomarkers and diagnostic tests, announces further international recognition of validity as the company’s President and CSO, Dr. Ira Goldknopf, will deliver an invited Keynote address and chair a session on “Biomarkers and Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine (Track 6-4),” at the BIT Life Sciences 2nd International Congress and Expo of Molecular Diagnostics in Beijing, China, November 19-21, 2009. The Theme of the meeting is “New Leadership of

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The world’s largest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Barrick Australia Finance Pty Ltd., are planning to issue $1.25 billion in debt securities comprised of $400 million of 4.95% notes due 2020 and $850 million of 5.95% notes due 2039. The offering is expected to close on Oct 16. Barrick plans to use the net proceeds from the offering to further reduce the liability related to its floating spot price (fully participating) gold contracts. In September this year, Barrick had raised about $3 billion representing 81.2 million common shares at a price of $36.95 per share as a part of its plan to eliminate gold hedges. Barrick’s gold sales contracts -- which comprise gold hedges and floating contracts -- totaled 9.5 million ounces with a mark-to-market position of negative $5.6 billion. Barrick Gold intends to use $1.9 billion of the net proceeds to

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China Wi-Max Communications, Inc., a Denver, Colorado-based telecommunications company formed to exploit the booming Chinese broadband market, has announced a comprehensive strategy to leverage its network foothold in Beijing.

The Founder and Chairman, Dr. Allan Rabinoff, said he was pleased to announce this offering of wireless broadband to customers in Beijing and that the initiative would be led by President and CEO Steven T. Berman. Rabinoff went on to say that Mr. Berman would “play a critically important role in the successful execution of our growth strategy.”

Mr. Berman brings his vast 20 years of business and legal experience in many aspects of telecommunications to bear in executing this bold new strategy. Mr. Berman is a bar-certified attorney, having received his Doctorate at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1987, and has diverse background experience as a practicing attorney.

Mr. Berman was appointed President and CEO 8 months ago, and

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