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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 3, 2006 10:16:04 GMT -5
Gold, Silver, Stocks, Energy, Real Estate, Auctions, Currencies, Commodities etc.
Discuss it here.
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 3, 2006 10:39:26 GMT -5
If you hold MS or Google...this is potentially huge... MEDIA: THE YEAR AHEAD Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google By Sallie Hofmeister, Times Staff Writer Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business. Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes. But today, there's a different wolf at the door. Although Microsoft is still flush with $40 billion in cash, it is Google Inc. that the media industry fears most. So intense is Google-fueled paranoia, in fact, that industry watchers believe the Internet search giant could drive profound changes in the media, entertainment and technology landscape in 2006. Already, old media are investing heavily in new-media ventures. Newspapers like this one are defending their bread-and-butter income — classified advertising — by stepping up their Web offerings. Media conglomerates such as News Corp. are buying Web properties like MySpace.com that connect them to young audiences, who are forsaking television and radio in favor of the Internet. This year, new media could return the favor by investing in old media — the folks who know the most about producing entertainment content. Here are some predictions for the media industry for 2006, based on interviews with industry analysts, executives and investors, along with a little intuition. Cheap PCs, anyone? Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet. Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars. Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called "Google Cubes" — a small hardware box that could allow users to move songs, videos and other digital files between their computers and TV sets. Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, will give a keynote address Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Analysts suspect that Page will use the opportunity either to show off a Google computing device or announce a partnership with a big retailer to sell such a machine. And that's not the only Google theory out there. Content producers wonder whether Google's push into video search will unravel the economics that make Hollywood hum. If viewers can find and legally download an episode of "Seinfeld" through Google, will that cut into cable and network television's profits? And what if Google, after equipping cities, starting with San Francisco, with Wi-Fi wireless technology, starts to offer pay-TV service for free? Still, to date, the company's $123-billion stock market value is based almost entirely on its dominance of one business: global text searches on the Web. Some investors worry that Page and co-founder Sergey Brin could be done in by their penchant for seeing themselves as do-gooders rather than profiteers. But those naysayers are in the minority. Most industry executives and Wall Street analysts believe that Google's search engine business is robust enough to give the young billionaires two or three years of wiggle room to build nifty services first and worry about making money on them later. www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story |
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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 3, 2006 10:49:06 GMT -5
Check out these miners, added them to the GOLD watchlist today.
TGB
AZK
NXG
CLG
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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 3, 2006 11:06:31 GMT -5
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 3, 2006 11:36:36 GMT -5
Google is a beast...I am very bullish on them long term...they are like a brainstorming factory with the best minds money can buy...hard to bet against that just read this... cryptogon.com/index.htmlwill look into those miners today as well i'm becoming a gold bug |
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Post by Healthy Merking on Jan 3, 2006 17:49:35 GMT -5
threw a sticky on this joint for you brothers
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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 3, 2006 20:42:41 GMT -5
"I'm becoming a gold bug" Welcome to the club!  You won't be sorry when a candybar is more than 5 bucks! Thanks for the pin LHX |
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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 4, 2006 1:17:25 GMT -5
New uses for gold could raise industrial demand by 50% in a decade February 9, 2005 By Eric Onstad Cape Town - Gold producers aim to boost industrial demand for the precious metal by more than 50 percent within a decade by developing new uses in gas masks, air-cleaning devices and as a superconductor in electrical gadgets. "New markets based on new technologies for gold will lead to significant new demand," David Thompson of the World Gold Council said at the Indaba mining conference in Cape Town. Currently the bulk of gold is used for jewellery, accounting for 80 percent of the 4 142 tons consumed in 2003, with industrial applications such as electronics and dental fillings taking up only 12 percent, or 500 tons. New uses for gold discovered by South African research group Autek are expected to lead to an extra demand of 280 tons in 10 years, Thompson said. The first new commercial product developed by Autek, formed by South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti in 2000, is a catalyst to be used in gas masks. Gold can be used as a catalyst at room temperatures, unlike other substances such as platinum, widely used in auto catalysts to clean pollution in exhaust fumes. "Gold catalysts can work at ambient temperatures as well as under humid conditions. This is quite unique because most catalysts fail under these conditions," said Autek's Elma van der Lingen. Currently gas masks use carbon, but a canister with a gold catalyst to filter out carbon monoxide would be lighter and smaller. Autek, which has 52 researchers and collaborates with 19 universities, started discussions with catalyst manufacturers about the gas mask product late last year. "We expect commercialisation in the first quarter of 2007," Van der Lingen said. The new product was expected initially to need around 10 tons of gold a year, but there was good potential to develop other catalytic devices using gold for cleaning air in homes and public areas such as restaurants, Thompson said. Total use of gold in catalysts was expected to boost gold consumption by 200 tons within 10 years, he added. The other main new industrial use for gold would be as a layer in high-temperature superconductors for use in electricity transmission and electrical devices, Thompson said. Autek is also busy working on a host of other applications for gold, including biomedical uses as an anti-cancer treatment. One research project in co-operation with the universities of Liverpool in the UK and Parma in Italy is developing medical uses based on nanotechnology. Autek also gets funding from South Africa's two other main gold producers, Gold Fields and Harmony Gold. www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2403044 |
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 5, 2006 13:07:00 GMT -5
Saw this: Let me tell you about a company that has the following: $33 million Market Cap. $30 Billion worth of proven and probable reserves (yes, reserves, not resources, and yes, that's $30 Billion, with a B, $30,000,000,000.00, no typo there.) For leverage of nearly 1000 to one! They also have a preliminary feasibility study (the plans to mine) indicating cash costs of about 15% of metal value. Interested? I think he's talking about GPXM...molybdenum miner in NV Also found very compelling #1 worldwide copper producer on big dip today...check Phelps Dodge Corp (PD) www.silverstockreport.com/email/Silver_Stock_Picks_for_2006.htmlwww.golden-phoenix.com/snapshot.htmminerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/molybdenum/then I called this dude to ask questions on moly USGS Commodity Specialist Michael J. Magyar Phone: 703-648-4964 Fax: 703-648-7757 Email: mmagyar@usgs.gov per Magyar they are sitting on the highest concentration on moly in the world there in NV...also they have already mined 100,000 tons of moly have it sitting on the ground and are beginnin to process it I ended up buying 200 shares of GPXM at .18cents a share...Lemme know any thoughts you have... PEACE |
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 5, 2006 14:42:24 GMT -5
Universal Default
Thanks go to reader Doug in Alabama for steering me toward yet one more reason to hate credit card companies: Universal Default.
"What you may not know is that if your credit score is lowered, then the interest rates on existing credit card debt could increase significantly. How? Universal Default.
...Buried in the fine print of the credit card terms and agreements, a universal default clause generally states that if you default (are late paying your bills) to the credit card issuer or any other lender the interest rate on the credit card could be raised. Banks that utilize the universal default clause periodically check credit reports of their cardholders. If a credit score is lowered for any reason—late payments, high debts on loans, etc.—then the universal default can be activated. Yes, even if you have a perfect bill-paying record with the card issuer....“We (Consumer Action) believe the real purpose of these policies is to maximize revenue at the expense of those who are least able to afford it.”
A study by Consumer Action illustrates a higher use of universal default than ever before. Out of 45 banks issuing 144 credit cards, 44% of those banks use a universal default clause. This is up from 39% in 2003.
...For example, say you recently purchased a product using your credit card at an APR of 8.9%. Several months down the road you’re informed that for whatever reason, your rate is now 27.99%. This new rate isn’t just applied to new purchases. It’s applied to the balance that you already carry on the card! Although seemingly a breech of contract, banks have disclosed their ability/intent to raise rates under certain circumstances so it’s perfectly legal.
...Another unsuspecting consumer, Mary Ann, was surprised when she read her credit card statement one month to find that the APR had been raised from 8.99% to 18.49%....“In all the years that I held this card, I never made a late payment.”
And while it isn't directly stated, late payments to utility companies can also affect your credit rating, which means a couple months of lost mail or late payments to the energy companies could cause your VISA bill to skyrocket overnight. And by the way, the article later states that it's almost impossible to reverse a universal default clause once it's been activated....
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Post by Healthy Merking on Jan 8, 2006 16:19:33 GMT -5
the business section of the newspaper today said that some fairly well-known analyst pegged google to hit $2000 per share despite most sources claiming $500 - $600
financial industry is nuts
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 9, 2006 13:48:32 GMT -5
China to U.S.: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Dang! And I was determined to post something positive and uplifting today...
The gauntlet has been thrown down. Perhaps this explains the recent Fear at the Fed:
"China indicated on Thursday it could begin to diversify its rapidly growing foreign exchange reserves away from the US dollar and government bonds – a potential shift with significant implications for global financial and commodity markets....If China were to stop acquiring such a large proportion of dollars with its reserves – currently accumulating at about $15bn (€12.4bn) a month – it could put heavy downward pressure on the greenback.
In a brief statement on its website, the government's foreign exchange regulator said one of its targets for 2006 was to “improve the operation and management of foreign exchange reserves and to actively explore more effective ways to utilise reserve assets”.
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“It is a subtle but clear signal that they are interested in moving away from the US dollar into other currencies, and are interested in setting up some kind of strategic commodity fund, maybe just for oil, but maybe for other commodities,” he said."
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Post by Healthy Merking on Jan 9, 2006 14:11:15 GMT -5
China to U.S.: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" Dang! And I was determined to post something positive and uplifting today... hahaaaaaaaaaaaaa maybe we could divide this website into the 'doom' section and the 'uplifting' section we walk a fine line |
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Post by UniverseSeven on Jan 13, 2006 15:23:01 GMT -5
AOB
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Post by jonnygemini on Jan 13, 2006 19:09:06 GMT -5
CWPC is bananas today...per 7s call
Symbol Company Name Last Change % Change Volume
CWPC CANWEST PETROLEUM CORP 3.62 +0.79 +27.92% 5.219 Mil
also per 7s call
TRE Tan Range Exploration Corporation 6.84 +0.73 +11.95% 1.658 Mil
I say good buy on the dip
URIX Uranium Resources, Inc. 1.01 -0.10 -8.60% 2.224 Mil
watching these when I get back to work on Tues
AOB is trying to get the patent for the pharma versions of chinese herbs/medicines from what I gather??
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