Uranium Energy Corp. is focused on becoming a near-term ISR uranium producer in the United States. The company has acquired, and is developing, uranium properties throughout the southwestern US. In today’s news, Uranium Energy Corp. announced that it is now listed in the Russell Microcap Index as part of Russell Investment Group’s annual reconstitution of its family of U.S. indexes.

The Russell indexes are well known, and widely used among investment managers and institutional investors for both active and passive investment strategies. As of the end of May, the Russell indexes have captured the 4,000 largest domestic stocks, which are ranked by market cap to create the Russell 3000 Index and the Russell Microcap Index. Becoming a member of the index ensures Uranium Energy a greater exposure to institutional investors, as well as constant comparison to other industry players.

In other recent news from the company, Uranium Energy announced last month that

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Entrée Gold Inc. (EGI) is an American mining and exploration company with active copper and gold interests in both the United States and Mongolia. Of the company’s 179,000 hectares (or roughly 4.5 million acres) of prime mining property, 40,000 have been thoroughly explored and shown to be extremely promising.

The land is part of a joint venture between EGI and Ivanhoe Mines, Ltd., and is known as the Oyu Tolgoi development project located in Southern Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The resources contained in this stake are estimated to be more than four billion pounds of copper, and over two million ounces of gold. On an added note, Ivanhoe is a world mining leader, and has been associated with other multi-billion dollar superpowers such as Rio Tinto in the past. Both Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe own roughly fifteen percent of Entrée Gold, Inc. Partnership with these companies all but ensures EGI’s potential

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Evergreen Solar (ESLR) has long been the underdog of the solar sector. Just take a look at their competition:

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Knowledge of the country weights in the emerging and developed markets indices can be helpful in specifying allocations within the equity portion of a portfolio.

For those clients who wish to allocate primarily on a country basis (as opposed to a sector basis, for example), our general philosophy is to begin the design process from the starting point of world market capitalization, then deviate from there as appropriate per client.

More specifically, we recommend placing at least 50% of equity assets in broad index funds in proportion to world market capitalization. Then, depending on your degree of aggressiveness and your confidence in your assessment of markets, placing up to 50% of equity assets in regional or country funds with anywhere from minor to massive overweights or underweights.

In order to make a conscious overweight or underweight decision, you need to know the neutral weights.

The major weight categories, US (proxy VTI), non-US developed …

The world market capitalization is ever changing as share and market values fluctuate, and the US share is shrinking.

The US market share has been declining steadily in recent years, while other markets have been increasing. Today, the US market (proxy SPY) has declined to less than 41% from nearly 53% as recently as of 2004, according to the S&P “World by the Numbers” report. In earlier times, the US share was much higher than 53%.

Emerging markets (proxies VWO and EEM) have been gaining market share notably through the BRIC countries of Brazil (proxy EWZ), Russia (proxy RSX), India (proxy INP), and China (proxy FXI).

Germany (proxy EWG) and Japan (proxy EWJ) have held their own and actually increased their market share since 2004.

This table presents the annual market shares for the US, Japan, Germany, China, India, Brazil and Russia as of …

Asia Time Corporation, a Chinese timepiece manufacturer, was featured in a trade alert issued today by Beacon Equity. The stock has traded from $4.50 to over $5.00 in just a few sessions, with indicators pointing toward a continuation of momentum.

The company’s first quarter financial results were impressive, showing a marked improvement across the board, as compared to those of a year ago. Revenues hit $36.8 million, with a net income of $2.4 million, greatly superseding last year’s Q1 revenues of $21.1 million, and net loss of $193,000.

With a market cap of a mere $126.8 million, Asia Time Corporation is a subject of intrigue for many investors, and appears to be building strength as a company at an alarming rate. According to the Beacon Equity report, “The company attributes the increases to a portfolio of diversified products with higher selling prices, flexible and extended credit terms, and a targeted

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Source: Mineweb.com  06/17/2008
In its review of global trends of the mining industry, Price WaterhouseCoopers predicts that “2008 will reflect production growth that reflects growing cost pressures.”

“Commodity prices will remain volatile; however, recent significant price rises for bulk commodities will positively impact the bottom line,” according to PwC’s fifth annual review of the global mining industry.

“Consistent with the prior year, the industry leaders will continue to spread out from their geographical homes to operate assets globally,” the PwC global mining team forecast in their report, Mine-As good as it gets?

Price WaterhouseCoopers’ global mining team said diversified global miners fared better last year than gold companies who have experienced the weakest margins.

Emerging market companies have shown especially high growth with these companies now comprising 36% of the Top 40 miners’ market capitalization.

The total market cap of the global mining industry achieved 54% growth as measured by the HSBC …

Indices STI 3046.77 13.72 (0.5%) FTSE Midcap Index 768.68 0.13 (0.0%) FTSE Smallcap Index 650.27 3.78 (0.6%) FTSE Fledgling Index 698.19 0.33 (0.0%) Retail Index 115.96 -0.52 (-0.4%) Plastics Index 63.15 0.16 (0.3%) Env/Water Index 111.28 -0.54 (-0.5%) Energy Index 184.63 1.51 (0.8%) China Index 141.98 1.79 (1.3%) PP China Index 147.23 1.39 (1.0%) FTSE China Index 446.43 5.52 (1.3%) Retail Index: Individual Component Stock Changes Link to Base Prices as at 9 Jun 06. The base index for the Retail Sector Index, based on 9 Jun 06, starts from 100. For corporate actions involving index stocks (new placements/deletions/new additions need adjustment to base market cap) see Corporate Actions. (Note: Base index has been adjusted on 5 May 08 to account for last corporate action.) Plastics Index: Individual Component Stock Changes ...

I don't actually know how long is now the time to buy financials has been part and parcel of every interview and while I have been underweight for ages, and still am, there is one aspect to this whole meltdown that we need to keep in mind.An aspect that could be relevant especially if one year or two year performance does not matter.Of the larger financial companies, will there be any that fail as a result of the entire event still unwinding? I believe Bear Stearns market cap topped out in the $20 billion range and if that is correct I would not say it was that large.Obviously some folks think there will be failures and with history as a guide there might be one or two which would not be a lot. Point ...

Stocks in the US are often classified by market capitalization or by style (growth, value or blend). Those differences are not sufficient to create different asset classes, but within the US stocks asset class they have produced different results.

The categories are similar in character and their correlation with the broad US market is high (from the low 80’s to the high 90’s). For those reasons, they just don’t work well as separate asset classes. That said, they may present some element of opportunity for sub-class rebalancing gains due to return rotation within an allocated portfolio.

The chart shows the return for the index of each category for each of 11 calendar years, including 1997-2007. The top half of the chart color codes each year for each index category based on the level of return. The bottom half of the chart color codes each year according to

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