Dr Stock Pick HOT News & Alerts!

_______________________________________

FREE Daily Stock Alerts From DrStockPick.com

_______________________________________

Friday September 25, 2009

DrStockPick.com Stock Report!

**************************************************************

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced the pricing of a public offering of 3 million shares of its common stock. The offering is expected to close on or about September 30, 2009, subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Auxilium has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any.

Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFY) today announced that it has obtained an issuer managed

...

This story about a kompromat sex tape made of a U.S. diplomat in Russia is spreading like wildfire across the internets.  Kyle Hatcher, a relatively young diplomat posted to the U.S. Embassy to liaise with religious groups in Russia, was allegedly filmed in a hotel room, and then the tape cuts to someone in the act with an alleged prostitute.  The full tape has lots of added extras, like alleged tapped phone calls and very bad synthesizer saxophone music to sleaze it up.So far, everything looks far from accidental.  The video was posted up to the same web site which had previously used a kompromat sex tape to discredit and eliminate James Hudson of the ...

Fresh off a deal with Venezuela, Russia's weapons maker appears to have its next willing customer in Saudi Arabia.

First reported in English language press on August 29 (Interfax via Bloomberg), we now have significantly more detail on the slow-drip revelation of an upcoming Saudi arms purchase from Russia.

What began as a $2 billion deal involving "150 helicopters, more than 150 battle tanks, about 250 infantry carriers and several dozen air-defense systems" has now become the following, according to Interfax via UPI earlier this month and yesterday, and Gulf News:

30 Mi-35 attack helicopters Up to 120 Mi-171B multipurpose transport helicopters150 T-90s battle tanks 250 BMP-3 infantry fighting vehiclesThe "air-defense" system in question appears to be the S-400, said to have twice the target range of the US Patriot counterpart and capable ...

Did you know that Igor Sechin allegedly worked with the famous arms dealer Viktor Bout back in Mozambique in the 1980s?  Neither did I, but you probably already know we have been watching all these orders coming for more Russian tanks from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez while at the same time more and more FARC links to Caracas are surfacing.  It's just so strange to think that the key individual who somehow allegedly ties together Russian weapons to the Venezuelans and then onward to FARC is in a Thai jail, where, apparently, the authorities are under the impression that FARC is not even a terrorist organization but rather a political party.  According to this editorial in the Washington Post, the ...

Here is the beginning of Robert Amsterdam's latest contribution to Huffington Post:

It really is impressive the level of tolerance we've built up when it comes to Russia's confrontational antics. Take for example the move in early August to deploy two Akula II-class nuclear attack submarines off the East Coast of the United States. The Pentagon quickly discarded any potential threat from the stunt, which was only slightly more diplomatic than the response to the resumption of bomber patrols: "If Russia feels as though they want to take some of these old aircraft out of mothballs and get them flying again, that's their decision," a State Department rep quipped back in 2007.

It's the same story with the Europeans.

...

I wonder why the State Department ended up with such shoddy audio for this video, but it's good to see them bravely leap out there into the world of social media (Medvedev's video blog has definitely out-sputniked them in terms of quality).

We often hear from U.S. observers all about the mutual interests that Washington and the Kremlin share in curbing Iran's march toward nuclear proliferation and other indications of growing hostility, yet it's funny how we usually see nothing but obstruction.  We've speculated in the past that Russia benefits most from preserving the status quo, and want to maintain their swing position.  This opinion from David Kramer is also interesting:  for one, Russia may indeed be interested in seeing U.S. diplomacy succeed in Iran (indeed they are more directly threatened), but they want to see other countries do the heavy lifting.  Secondly, they just don't have all that much influence over Tehran.  From Voice of America:But other analysts, including David Kramer, a former senior U.S. State Department official in the Bush administration (now with the German Marshall Fund ...

TODAY: US disappointed with Russia's stance on OSCE; Medvedev hopeful on Obama talks; Abkhazia's President Bagapsh wary of Russian control; Russia suggests ruble reserve currency for G8; prognosis not good for Russia-EU; gay rights parade broken up Talks on replacing the START treaty will begin today, the Economist reports.  President Medvedev is apparently optimistic that in his upcoming meeting with President Obama even thorny topics will be discussed.  US defense missile sites in Eastern Europe, one such example, will apparently be on the agenda.  Will OSCE monitoring also be?  Washington is apparently frustrated with Russia's veto of the security watchdog's activity in Georgia.  'It is disappointing and we hope that Russia will reverse its stance',  says a State Department spokesman.  An article ...

Writing at the New American, William F. Jasper is frustrated by everyone overlooking the fact that Russia and China have taken certain actions which actually exacerbated the nuclear proliferation problem.Yes, Iran and North Korea do pose some thorny problems concerning nuclear proliferation. However, before we go falling all over ourselves in a rush to invite Putin, Medvedev, Lavrov & Company to merge with us in a great cooperative effort to "solve" these problems, a little honesty is in order. To the extent that North Korea and Iran present genuine nuclear weapons threats, it is thanks to Putin, Medvedev, Lavrov & Company (and their Kremlin predecessors), along with the Beijing Boys. The missile programs in Iran and North Korea would still be back in the slingshot stage without the crucial, long-running (and ongoing) help provided by Russia and China. (For background on assistance by Moscow and Beijing for Iran's and ...

TODAY: Russia-US relations will not derailed by Georgia events says Washington; Lavrov suggests humanitarian motives for action in Georgia; Eastern Partnership deal made; Lebevev's Novaya Gazeta pay suspension scrutinized; Amnesty disappointed with human rights in Medvedev's first yearHillary Clinton reportedly has no interest in dwelling upon the Georgia issue at her meeting with Sergei Lavrov, saying, 'we want to normalize the relationship and raise it to a new level'.  President Obama is apparently 'hopeful' about improved relations.  Russian State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov has confirmed that Russia will take part in a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, saying 'we want to continue the dialogue'.  Sergei Lavrov has defended Russia's actions in Georgia, claiming, 'we intervened . . . not to win geopolitical ...