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Friday October 9, 2009

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MBRX, PWRM, CBS, CSRH, CVC, CVAT, NOC, AQNM, UTX

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MBRX, Metabasis Therapeutics Inc.

MBRX, a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs targeting the liver and liver pathways.

On September 15, 2009, MBRX received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), notifying the Company that based upon the closing bid price of its common stock for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company did not maintain a minimum closing bid price of $1.00 per share or more that is required for continued listing

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Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations has a piece on Transitions Online which takes a look at some opinions of Gleb Pavlovsky and Yevgeny Gontmahker to debate what the Pikalyovo incident did and did not teach us about politics in Russia.Pikalyovo was also an attempt to address the inefficiencies in Putin's authoritarian project by creating what Russians call obratnaya sviaz ("reverse connection"). The system works, but only just. Russia still needs a modernization project, albeit not the "prosperity project," backed by good finances and sound macroeconomics, which the Putin-Medvedev tandem was originally supposed to implement. Not only will Russia have to proceed with fewer resources, it will have to tackle the flip side of a stronger state, what even Pavlovsky calls "severe monopolism in all social spheres," not just in government and the economy, but in the mass media and in society at ...

Sector 10, Inc., the emergency response systems company focused on pre-deployment of life-saving resources for building occupants and emergency responders, has made a point of recruiting senior level people with national and international experience in emergency response and preparedness. The approach clearly represents a long-term strategy of building a strong link to key organizations and decision makers around the world, creating an unparalleled foundation for the company’s future growth.

Sector 10’s commitment to this policy was reflected by their recent announcement that Hugh Neville Cholmondeley, a form senior level UN official with 28 years of international experience in disaster preparation and relief, will join the company’s Business Advisory Board. He will also serve as advisor for Sector 10’s worldwide deployment of their Mobile Response Units (MRUs) for humanitarian and relief operations. MRUs are the company’s mobile emergency material supply stations that

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When gold breached the $1,000/oz mark this February, the mass media were full of reports of unprecedented coin demand and long wait times for bullion buyers. You couldn’t open the paper without seeing a piece about the gold rush.

Although the press has now set gold aside for hotter stories, I can tell you demand for gold coins continues at unprecedented levels worldwide, and production is still struggling to keep up. Take a look at these recent reports:

***Sales of the Austrian Philharmonic gold coin soared 544% in the first two months of 2009 (vs. the same period the year before), with production at the country’s mint running quadruple its usual volume.

***The demand for Krugerrands is at its highest level since 1986. The South African refinery recently doubled production of blank gold coins to 20,000 ounces per week.

***China, now the fastest-growing market for gold, saw 2008 sales (measured in dollars) rise by

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Stocks, bonds and dollars get sold!  The U.S. to lose our AAA credit rating?  A return to fundamentals day 2… And Now… Today’s Pfennig!

Front and Center this morning the Big Dog (euro) has left the porch and is chasing the dollar down the street! I got home yesterday afternoon, rested, and then checked the currencies at the NY closing before they handed the books over to Japan, and saw that the euro had leap-frogged to the 1.39 handle! WOW! What was going on?

Well… First of all… Didn’t I tell you long ago that whenever the fundamentals returned to the markets

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Jobs Jamboree results…  A double whack for Treasuries…  The loonie is stealth like…  Oil on the rise…  And Now… Today’s Pfennig! Friday was absolutely crazy in the markets. The currency screens lit up, the price of Oil was on the rise, and Treasury yields were rising, thus pushing the value of existing bonds downward. An absolutely crazy day, that scared the bejeebers out of the Chinese… So, let’s go to the tape to see what’s going on here…

Front and center to talk about this morning, was the Jobs Jamboree… The mass media would have you believe that the recession has

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Perhaps we should be a little more economical with our use of the d-word.  This comes from Fred Weir's blog at CSM:

"In the final analysis, Pakhomov's victory was an expression of public support for Putin, and his margin of victory mirrors Putin's public approval ratings," says Vyacheslav Igrunov, director of the independent Institute of Humanitarian-Political Studies in Moscow.

But let's not call it "democracy," he adds.

"I don't think the violations during the Sochi campaign were any more than is usual for a Russian election. But it's difficult to call it a democratic campaign, given the total control of the authorities over the mass media" and other levers of influence, he says.

How much does it cost to think?

The real cost of ambitious gas projects is surely unknown

Grigory Pasko, journalist

On Lenta.Ru I read: «The cost of construction of the "Nord Stream" pipeline is measured at 7.4 billion euros, while that of "South stream" - up to 25 billion euros». I got to thinking about these numbers. And not only because one of the head employees of the company Nord Stream, Gerhard Schroeder, had cited the cost of Nord Stream at 9 bln euros ( while in the mass media there have been mentions of a number of even 12 bln euros), and his friend, Russian premier Putin, has named a cost of construction of the «South Stream» of 10 bln euros. (In so doing, Putin

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Job losses begin to accelerate…  Currencies inch higher…  News of the weird…  China announces a stimulus plan! Good day… And a Marvelous Monday to you!

Well… We might as well get right into this… I’m sure you heard that the Jobs Jamboree was awful on Friday. UGH! Jobs are dropping like the temperatures outside, and there doesn’t seem to be anything to stop them from dropping either! For the record… October’s jobs losses were worse than expected (-200K) and came in at -240K… OUCH! But the real kicker, something the mass media might not have covered, was found in the September revision… Recall that September’s Jobs data showed a negative -159K… Well, that number was revised to -284K! Double OUCH!

I would have to think, given the size of the Sept. revision, that October’s -240K will be revised to near 300K… The job losses are beginning to accelerate folks, and that’s

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img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/5843/160/thinking.jpg"br /br /emfont color="#0000FF"(P.S: Sorry for any disturbances the advertisements above may have caused you)/font/embr /It is surprising that this storm has still not abated about one month after it initially started following Lehman's failure which ignited so-called "credit events" in many structured products offered around the world, most prominently in Hong Kong and Singapore (I wonder why these two countries in particular). With all due respect to the victims, my conclusion is that in Asia, money (and the loss of it) strikes at the raw emotions (and the corresponding activism) of people much more than anything else (eg. intangibles like democracy, politics, environment).br /br /As this issue is covered almost every day in the papers, I cannot help but be saturated by all the reports. And I cannot help feeling that while there are obviously certain points that buyers of these Lehman minibonds/DBS Hi-Five/Merrill Jubilee notes (to name ...