Yes, at least free stockcharts will not load for me this morning.

A stock picking service I subscribe to has a buy recommendation in at $12.50 for their subs.  (second tranche)

My understanding is that a large float of shares was released a few days ago from early holders as part of a planned offering....ie; not new shares.  This float is just being taken up now.

Synthetic fuel

GFS.TO, which is on the TSX, not the more risky venture exchange.

Actually, I believe there is a political play here as well.  Their frac technology uses liquid gases such as propane to fracture the shales, instead of water, and the fracing fluid is mostly recovered.  Some regions which prohibit hydrofracing still allow it with Gasfrac's technology.

For fellow Canadian members, Scotia Mocatta is a primary gold dealer.  You can buy and sell gold through any Scotia bank, although there is a delivery fee to/from any branch outside of the one co-located with the Scotia Mocatta office in Ottawa.

http://www.technologymetalssummit.com/

Another factor supporting strength in this sector is the Rare Earths summit in Toronto, which wraps up tomorrow.  Many of the presentations are likely hitting the net now.....

oops1e, Molymet bought a $390m block of new shares in MCP at a 10% premium over the Jan 30 close price, which would seem to be positive, but apparently JPM have been trash talking the deal all yesterday.

The premium over spot has been quite high in the past....possibly it is unwinding.

Small caps for the most part, have less international exposure....this may be why they are outperforming at the moment.

Apparently Tokyo Electric's solution to the issue of maximum radiation exposure was to double the limit....this can't be good.

I read an article a while back about a technology which allows thorium with a small percentage of plutonium to be used as a fuel rod in certain types of existing reactors, with only small changes.  The resultant benefit is all of the advantages of thorium, with the added bonus of burning up some plutonium waste from existing technology reactors.

ditch, it's easier to buy up futures overnight with lots of leverage, in a thin market, compared to the cash index.  What I'm noticing though, are that investors are not 'buying' it as much as they used to.  ie; used to be the futures are up, so most times the cash index runs up first thing.  This isn't always happening these days.

I would like to participate if there is room.

vimal, I've been watching the S&P reaction to POMO for quite some time.  Before QE2, the buying did not happen every day.  On the days it did, the market was usually positive.  QE2 has buying nearly every day.  Since then, I have not noticed any correlation to the amounts, or even any difference on the rare days where there is no POMO, or a very small one.  My observation only, I have not gone through the stats.

1313 looks to be the next appreciable resistance area, and is also the 38% fib off the recent high, to today's low....just a guess on my part....would welcome any confirmation.

Matt, EnCana is primarily a Nat Gas company.  Somewhere around 90%.  Oil assets have been sold off over the past few years.

There was a fellow about 10 years ago, who cracked a code in the Keno game at the Montreal casino.  He would watch for a certain apparently random sequence of numbers and then play.  The supposedly random numbers were based on a formula related to prior numbers.  The gaming people arrested him in the winners lounge, but eventually had to let him keep the winnings.

Matt/Steve, is the M3 switch change as discussed in the newsletter, something that will only be known after the close?

They sure don't say much in the article.  I know there is a company in Washington that has a process to mix thorium with spent uranium and all the associated bad stuff.  When this thorium fuel rod is used, the spent rod is much less nasty, ie; only a few hundred year radioactive half life.  This is less a replacement process and more having to deal with highly radioactive and toxic spent fuel rods.