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Friday September 25, 2009

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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

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It’s official: You can reduce your investment risk simply by chucking darts at a list of stocks, then buying them.

That’s if you believe a Nobel economist, of course. His crude “experiment” was the start of “modern portfolio theory” decades ago. The downside, however, was that with a reduction of risk came a dampening of profits. So scratch that idea.

How about this? A startling study in the late 1970s showed that owning a portfolio of large U.S. companies with international divisions drops your risk 10% below a domestic stock portfolio. Much better. But that wasn’t the eye-popper…

The study also found that owning stocks in international companies cuts your risk in half…

Take that, “efficiency” theorists! Yet the stuffy professors still tried to refute these results. It was a losing battle, though, as more studies emerged, laden with more evidence that international stocks reduce risk.

But the

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At the height of its late 2005 rally, natural gas in the U.S. was selling for just over $16/MMBtu, 350% higher than today’s price of $3.56. The oil/gas ratio, now over 18, is an all-time high… suggesting that natural gas is dirt cheap. So, it’s a buy, right?

In a phrase, not exactly.

According to a recent report by Natural Gas Intelligence, U.S. natural gas available for production “has jumped 58% in the past four years, driven by improved drilling techniques and the discovery of huge shale fields in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, according to a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee (PGC).”

According to the report, the increase in gas discoveries and production improvements means that North America shouldn’t have to be concerned about gas supplies for up to 100 years!

Dr. Marc Bustin provided an overview of the situation in the May edition of Casey Energy Opportunities.

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The 2009 Failed States Index has just been released, a fifth annual collaboration between Foreign Policy Magazine and the Fund for Peace, ranking 177 countries according to a range of economic, political and social indicators. Considering the ease with which some people tend to throw this term around, I am compelled to open the discussion here with some attempt at agreeing on just what it means for a state to be "failed". Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Kennedy School of Government's program on intrastate conflict and conflict resolution and president of the World Peace Foundation, offers this summary of what qualifies:

"Failed states have two defining criteria: They deliver very low quantities and qualities of

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Despite a notable lack of news, the Canadian markets continued to surge higher during Thursday trading. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 2.5%, while the TSX Gold Index tacked on 1.80% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, rallied 1.11% with the advancers beating out the decliners by a 458 to 354 margin on 172 million shares traded.

Shares of Underworld Resources built on Wednesday’s C$0.36 gain by adding another C$0.15 to close at C$1.56. News is spreading on the size potential of its Golden Saddle zone at the White Gold property that recently returned 3.39 grams gold per tonne over 104 metres.

San Gold continued to turn out the numbers from its Hinge zone in Manitoba. The latest included 37 grams gold per tonne over 3.9 metres. San Gold closed up C$0.08 at C$2.44.

Cash rich Raytec Metals inked a farm-out

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Sector 10, Inc. announced this morning that John Gargett, who currently heads the Operations Committee on the Board of Directors, has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Operations and Chief Operations Officer. Mr. Gargett is already working with Sector 10 to formulate a 5-year growth strategy.

After a comprehensive review of Sector 10, Mr. Gargett is convinced that Sector 10’s prospects for growth are substantial. He stated, “The products and services that we offer are revolutionary in the potential for saving lives. The SRU has profound implications for protecting people confronted with life-threatening situations and the MRU has equally profound implications for humanitarian operations around the globe.”

Mr. Gargett retains more than 25 years experience in crisis, emergency and risk management. One of the things about the business model of Sector 10 that impressed Mr. Gargett is the way Public Safety agencies

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Pretty bad day for the overall market yesterday as most stocks ended the day down on some more banking fears. I really do believe many of these banks still have not come clean about all the junk/bad stuff that’s tied up in their banks. But believe me I do think it’ll all come out, and the market is going to react negatively to it..as we saw today when word got out that Bank Of America has a stock pile of bad loans.

For now though, lets focus on some penny stocks that have been greeeeeen lately!

SCON big 150%+ manipulated move we’ve seen the past 2 days on a sketchy PR, was up 50% Monday before the PR was even released yesterday. I’m feeling a like a short play is building up..but don’t be surprised if this shows some more DFR -type strength tomorrow, I’ll like it even better then more strength=better

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Sector 10, Inc. announced that it has appointed John Gargett to its Board of Directors and that he will also be heading the Operations Committee. Mr. John B. Gargett is a graduate of Western Washington University, is Vice President for Operations for the National Institute of Urban Search and Rescue, the 2006 winner of the prestigious NIUSR “Press On” Award, is President of Fairhaven International, a Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management Consulting firm, and is President of Encompsol, a software firm specializing in Fire Code Compliance.

Mr. Gargett is recognized around the globe for his expertise in Crisis Management. He has worked in more than forty countries and assisted the United Nations in designing systems for the monitoring of relief supplies in the former Yugoslavia and Somalia. He has provided expert lectures to Japanese private sector companies on the threats facing, and working

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Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production Commodities / Food Crisis Feb 09, 2009 - 07:11 AM By: Eric_deCarbonnel

After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. 2009 looks to be a humanitarian disaster around much of the world

To understand the depth of the food Catastrophe that faces the world this year, consider the graphic below depicting countries by USD value of their agricultural output, as of 2006.

Now, consider the same graphic with the countries experiencing droughts highlighted.

China

The drought in Northern China, the worst in 50 years, is worsening, and summer harvest is now threatened. The area of affected crops has expanded to 161 million mu (was 141 million last week),

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“Global Demand for Oil to Plummet,” screams a recent Financial Times headline.   Huh?  No it won’t.  Who are they trying to kid?

Global oil demand is not going to “plummet.”  And for the FT to say so is just plain silly, if not irresponsible.  OK, I know.  There’s an old saying that they teach in journalism schools.  “You have to sell newspapers.”  But this declaration by the FT highlights the perils of letting a headline-writer do your thinking for you.  It’s what I call “arguing a screaming conclusion.”  And a wrong conclusion at that.

Oil Demand – Down, Then Up

But let’s move past the headlines.  The Financial Times article explains that the World Bank has just issued a new study.  The World Bank believes that the world is entering into the toughest economic times “since the Great Depression.”  Thus overall world oil demand may fall by about half a million barrels per

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