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ESO Uranium Television Interview
ESO Uranium has established itself as one of the most aggressive, junior
exploration uranium companies in Canada. As one of the largest landholders
on the most prolific uranium belts on the entire planet, ESO's recently
announced 100 hole drill program hopes to match the success of last years
drill program. Corporate Communications Manager, Tom Corcoran explains:
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ESO Uranium has established itself as one of the most aggressive, junior
exploration uranium companies in Canada. As one of the largest landholders
on the most prolific uranium belts on the entire planet, ESO's recently
announced 100 hole drill program hopes to match the success of last years
drill program. Corporate Communications Manager, Tom Corcoran explains:
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All In
Born To Run
Forgotten Risks to the Market
So Close to the Bottom
Some Recent News
All In
Born To Run
Forgotten Risks to the Market
So Close to the Bottom
Some Recent News
The North American Uranium Review
features over 40+ pages covering
the uranium market and 19 individual
company profiles. The Report is
available by clicking here, or visiting
the Uranium Companies section of
the website.
features over 40+ pages covering
the uranium market and 19 individual
company profiles. The Report is
available by clicking here, or visiting
the Uranium Companies section of
the website.
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Potash Sprouting New Entrants
June 19, 2008
The world's major potash producers' stocks keep powering higher day after day with Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan
(NYSE- POT), The Mosaic Company (NYSE- MOS), and Agrium Inc. (NYSE- AGU) moving strongly higher over the past
two weeks. Investors are beginning to reinvest their gains in these larger players down the food chain into some of the
potash explorers. So long as these larger companies can keep up their momentum and avoid any sharp downturns, the
juniors should continue upwards as well.
Continue Reading...
Potash Companies are Enfuego
June 12, 2008
All things potash have been enfuego as of late as producers, explorers and holding companies have all seen their share
prices rise as investors exuberantly bid up shares. We highlighted Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan in our June 2,
2008 article (click here) declaring that the stock was ready to make a move upwards. We also highlighted the much
smaller explorers who we have consistently said hold much promise for investors.
Continue Reading...
Potash: Setting Up for a Rally
June 2, 2008
Over the past few weeks it seems that volume has slowed on the potash stocks we follow as the share prices have taken a
breather. Interest has waned yet share prices have found themselves in a bit of a trading range, especially when one
consults a chart of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (POT), The Mosaic Company (MOS) and Agrium Incorporated
(AGU). Not much has changed in the past few weeks, and investors understand that the fertilizer stocks will be around
for a while. Right now we have some sideways movement, which could soon end.
Continue Reading...
Red Hot Yellow Cake
May 21, 2008
Over the past few weeks we here at theinvestar.com, LLC had speculated that uranium equities could be poised to rise
higher if only they could hold recent gains and stay above support levels established in April and subsequently rise
above previously established resistance levels.
Continue Reading...
Potash Arena Shrinking After BHP's Acquisition of Anglo Potash
May 13, 2008
The big news today in the potash arena has to be the fact that BHP Billiton (BHP- NYSE) has purchased their joint
venture partner, Anglo Potash Limited (AGP- Vancouver), at C$8.15 per share for a total of C$284 million in cash. For
those not familiar with the situation, Anglo Potash owned 25% of a joint venture with BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., a
subsidiary of BHP Billiton. With this transaction, BHP has placed a value on the project of roughly C$1.136 Billion for a
project which may come into production in 2014 at the earliest assuming smooth sailing from here on out.
Continue Reading...
Uranium: Powering the Future
May 8, 2008
Uranium equities have continued their downturn after a period where it appeared we may have been flat-lining.
Unfortunately for those still holding, many of these stocks dipped further in recent trading days resulting in a new
all-time low for theinvestar's Canadian Uranium Average (TICUA). We noticed during those down days that volume
spiked on many of the smaller uranium stocks included in the average as well as those which we follow on the side.
Continue Reading...
The Week That Was
April 25, 2008
The past week was packed full with potash/fertilizer industry news. First we had Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT)
eclipsing the $200 benchmark, culminating in POT becoming the largest company in Canada by market
capitalization. The very next day, Intrepid Potash (IPI), an IPO we have been talking about for some time, debuted on
the New York Stock Exchange finishing up 58% for the day.
Continue Reading...
King Potash
April 22, 2008
We must state for the record that we are as surprised as anyone with the rapid price appreciation experienced by Potash
Corp. of Saskatchewan(POT) shareholders over the past ten years. We started following the stock back in 1998 and were
intrigued by its dominate market position, large amount of reserves and potential future resources, as well as their
business dealings abroad with foreign entities. Make no mistake, at the time the industry was in troubled times as they
could not sell all of their production and relied heavily upon controlling supply into the market to get by.
Continue Reading...
Potash Companies Blasting Off
April 14, 2008
The Mosaic Company (MOS) reported blowout earnings on April 4 due to strong demand from farmers for their
agriculture fertilizer products. Earnings increased twelve-fold from the same quarter of last year with the company also
increasing its gross margin to 33.9% of net sales from the previous year's gross margin of 8.8%. The market was quite
pleased with this and subsequently pushed Mosaic's share price up 20% to new all-time highs.
Continue Reading...
The Chinese Are Coming
April 11, 2008
The past few months have been very hard on the uranium mining industry's equity investors. Many uranium companies'
shares are trading near 52-week lows after a handful of problems have crept up for many in the industry. Now that the
market seems to have priced in the mining problems at a handful of companies, the fact that many drill results are
going to take longer than expected to be examined, and the fact that some companies' treasuries were struck by the sub-
prime CDOs which have ravaged many balance sheets, it appears that a bottom may have been reached.
Continue Reading...
Potash: Bull Market Continues
March 14, 2008
As markets have continued to be weak over the past few weeks, there has been one sector which continues to stand out
among the leaders: Agriculture Stocks. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, The Mosaic Company, and Agrium
Incorporated have powered forward and continued their bullish uptrends. In bear markets, equities which continue
higher have serious momentum and legitimate businesses behind them. For the past two years it has been nothing but
good news for the North American potash producers, and for the foreseeable future it appears that this trend will
continue.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Index Continues its Rise
February 22, 2008
Over the past week we have seen theinvestar's Canadian Uranium Average creep through some recent highs and
establish itself on a potentially new trend upwards. We must note that this trend would have been much more profound
had Uranium One not dragged down the average so much with their recent disappointing news, however such is life
and we just wanted to alert everyone as to the "real" general strength among the industry as a whole.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Index on the Rise
February 15, 2008
The past nine months have been very rough for investors in uranium equities, and our long-term chart for theinvestar's
Canadian Uranium Average fully supports this statement, but it appears as though the industry has bottomed and is now
on its way up. Our index fell all the way down to 141.87 on February 8, 2008 from a high of 325.915 on August 9, 2007
and the losses were across the board with only a few winners in that time-frame. As you can see by the chart below, it
appears that in the past week we tested lows set in late January, pretty much held those levels with minimum further
movement to the downside. Now uranium equities are moving upwards to test the recent high set on January 24 of this
year.
Continue Reading...
Markets Going Forward
February 8, 2008
For months now we have been stating that the mortgage market can go lower and lower as many people thought that
the problem could be over in a matter of months. It is a situation we find very interesting as well as quite frightening at
the same time. Recently we could not help but to chuckle at the predicament some of the smartest men in the world
find themselves stuck in.
Continue Reading...
Bottoming Out?
February 1, 2008
After the Fed meeting this week which took place over a two day period (Tuesday and Wednesday) we received the rate
cut the markets wanted and needed, 50 basis points. Just as the market began to cheer and the Dow and Nasdaq were
at session highs, financial fears re-entered the market and spooked markets all the way down to session lows. It seems
that those fears may have been a bit overblown now that it is apparent that Wall Street banks are preparing to make
some rather large investments in the bond insurers to save their own backs.
Continue Reading...
Tough Love
January 25, 2008
As markets in the States were closed on Monday, uranium equities fell in sympathy with stocks around the world. The
rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve spared markets in the States from the 5% drops experienced on bourses around the
world, and even propelled world markets higher during the next trading day. Through all of this, uranium related stocks
fell and then simply yawned.
Continue Reading...
Developing Trends
Friday January 18, 2008
Although uranium equities have continued to be battered by investors over the past few weeks, the news flow has been
quite positive. One could argue that all of this news has been wasted on the current market, however even if one is not
invested in uranium equities to the extent they once were this news should be kept up on so moves can be quickly
made once the market begins to move upwards again.
Continue Reading...
Bright Future for Potash
Friday, January 11, 2008
In the past year many have discovered that the farming stocks, be they those who grow the crops or the companies who
manufacture the seed or even those who supply the fertilizers, have been nothing but stellar, to say the least. Deere
(DE) nearly doubled last year, with Monsanto nearly tripling, and Archer Daniel Midland up roughly 50%. As impressive
as these gains were, the most spectacular were found in the fertilizer industry, particularly those stocks involved in the
process of mining potash. Among the larger companies who have exposure to potash:
Continue Reading...
2008: A Year for Investing in Uranium Equities
January 3, 2008
Uranium equities have stabilized in recent days with the uranium average bouncing back to the mid-180 level and
only recently crossing back over the 190+ level . Investors have begun to test the waters and wade back into
some of these issues rather than jump in blindly. It appears that we may have experienced the worst of the tax
selling in both Canada and the United States, so the table seems set for 2008.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Investors Returning from Hibernation?
December 21, 2007
In the past week uranium equities continued their march downwards towards this year's lows. In fact, they even
set a new yearly closing low in Tuesday's trading as indicated by our Canadian uranium index. Trading sessions
on Wednesday and Thursday provided a bump upwards for uranium stocks which is what we would have
expected and is quite healthy.
Continue Reading...
Miserable No Longer?
December 10, 2007
The past few weeks have been quite difficult for uranium investors as the market in general remains reluctant to
take on risk. This risk aversion has led uranium equities downwards with some companies' stocks either at or
approaching multi-year lows and our uranium index once again near this year's lows. Until the market as a whole
has a good feeling for what to expect with the mortgage related write-downs, volatility will most certainly surround
such high risk, high reward situations such as our junior uranium mining stocks.
Continue Reading...
Oilsands Quest Perking Up
November 9, 2007
As we continue to favor the nuclear renaissance over many other investment themes out there, we would also
like to revisit our favorite non-uranium companies: Oilsands Quest (BQI). The stock has been in a strong uptrend
over the past few months, in fact the stock has more than doubled off of its lows set in July of this year.
Continue Reading...
Positive News for Uranium Stocks
October 31, 2007
The Federal Reserve meets today, and the market is betting that a rate cut is indeed in the cards. Most agree that
it will be a 25 basis-point cut. It is our belief that the Fed should probably hold steady here with rates, but speak in
overly dovish terms to assure the markets that they are still keeping a close eye on the current situation in the
credit markets.
Continue Reading...
Revaluing the Market
October 19, 2007
Uranium equities have been relatively quiet lately, with little or no movement in their prices. Our experience over
the years with dealing with the uranium juniors tells us this is probably the calm before the storm.
Continue Reading...
Cameco + BHP Billiton...as go the Generals, so too Should the Foot Soldiers
October 4, 2007
We know that everybody here is familiar with the investment thesis regarding uranium. Our position has been and
continues to be that the investment thesis remains intact.
Continue Reading...
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
September 19, 2007
Big Ben came around for the equities markets again dropping rates by 50 basis points, nearly double what the
consensus was but in line with the most optimistic calls. In response US markets rose, along with equities
markets around the world.
Continue Reading...
June 19, 2008
The world's major potash producers' stocks keep powering higher day after day with Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan
(NYSE- POT), The Mosaic Company (NYSE- MOS), and Agrium Inc. (NYSE- AGU) moving strongly higher over the past
two weeks. Investors are beginning to reinvest their gains in these larger players down the food chain into some of the
potash explorers. So long as these larger companies can keep up their momentum and avoid any sharp downturns, the
juniors should continue upwards as well.
Continue Reading...
Potash Companies are Enfuego
June 12, 2008
All things potash have been enfuego as of late as producers, explorers and holding companies have all seen their share
prices rise as investors exuberantly bid up shares. We highlighted Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan in our June 2,
2008 article (click here) declaring that the stock was ready to make a move upwards. We also highlighted the much
smaller explorers who we have consistently said hold much promise for investors.
Continue Reading...
Potash: Setting Up for a Rally
June 2, 2008
Over the past few weeks it seems that volume has slowed on the potash stocks we follow as the share prices have taken a
breather. Interest has waned yet share prices have found themselves in a bit of a trading range, especially when one
consults a chart of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (POT), The Mosaic Company (MOS) and Agrium Incorporated
(AGU). Not much has changed in the past few weeks, and investors understand that the fertilizer stocks will be around
for a while. Right now we have some sideways movement, which could soon end.
Continue Reading...
Red Hot Yellow Cake
May 21, 2008
Over the past few weeks we here at theinvestar.com, LLC had speculated that uranium equities could be poised to rise
higher if only they could hold recent gains and stay above support levels established in April and subsequently rise
above previously established resistance levels.
Continue Reading...
Potash Arena Shrinking After BHP's Acquisition of Anglo Potash
May 13, 2008
The big news today in the potash arena has to be the fact that BHP Billiton (BHP- NYSE) has purchased their joint
venture partner, Anglo Potash Limited (AGP- Vancouver), at C$8.15 per share for a total of C$284 million in cash. For
those not familiar with the situation, Anglo Potash owned 25% of a joint venture with BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., a
subsidiary of BHP Billiton. With this transaction, BHP has placed a value on the project of roughly C$1.136 Billion for a
project which may come into production in 2014 at the earliest assuming smooth sailing from here on out.
Continue Reading...
Uranium: Powering the Future
May 8, 2008
Uranium equities have continued their downturn after a period where it appeared we may have been flat-lining.
Unfortunately for those still holding, many of these stocks dipped further in recent trading days resulting in a new
all-time low for theinvestar's Canadian Uranium Average (TICUA). We noticed during those down days that volume
spiked on many of the smaller uranium stocks included in the average as well as those which we follow on the side.
Continue Reading...
The Week That Was
April 25, 2008
The past week was packed full with potash/fertilizer industry news. First we had Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT)
eclipsing the $200 benchmark, culminating in POT becoming the largest company in Canada by market
capitalization. The very next day, Intrepid Potash (IPI), an IPO we have been talking about for some time, debuted on
the New York Stock Exchange finishing up 58% for the day.
Continue Reading...
King Potash
April 22, 2008
We must state for the record that we are as surprised as anyone with the rapid price appreciation experienced by Potash
Corp. of Saskatchewan(POT) shareholders over the past ten years. We started following the stock back in 1998 and were
intrigued by its dominate market position, large amount of reserves and potential future resources, as well as their
business dealings abroad with foreign entities. Make no mistake, at the time the industry was in troubled times as they
could not sell all of their production and relied heavily upon controlling supply into the market to get by.
Continue Reading...
Potash Companies Blasting Off
April 14, 2008
The Mosaic Company (MOS) reported blowout earnings on April 4 due to strong demand from farmers for their
agriculture fertilizer products. Earnings increased twelve-fold from the same quarter of last year with the company also
increasing its gross margin to 33.9% of net sales from the previous year's gross margin of 8.8%. The market was quite
pleased with this and subsequently pushed Mosaic's share price up 20% to new all-time highs.
Continue Reading...
The Chinese Are Coming
April 11, 2008
The past few months have been very hard on the uranium mining industry's equity investors. Many uranium companies'
shares are trading near 52-week lows after a handful of problems have crept up for many in the industry. Now that the
market seems to have priced in the mining problems at a handful of companies, the fact that many drill results are
going to take longer than expected to be examined, and the fact that some companies' treasuries were struck by the sub-
prime CDOs which have ravaged many balance sheets, it appears that a bottom may have been reached.
Continue Reading...
Potash: Bull Market Continues
March 14, 2008
As markets have continued to be weak over the past few weeks, there has been one sector which continues to stand out
among the leaders: Agriculture Stocks. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, The Mosaic Company, and Agrium
Incorporated have powered forward and continued their bullish uptrends. In bear markets, equities which continue
higher have serious momentum and legitimate businesses behind them. For the past two years it has been nothing but
good news for the North American potash producers, and for the foreseeable future it appears that this trend will
continue.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Index Continues its Rise
February 22, 2008
Over the past week we have seen theinvestar's Canadian Uranium Average creep through some recent highs and
establish itself on a potentially new trend upwards. We must note that this trend would have been much more profound
had Uranium One not dragged down the average so much with their recent disappointing news, however such is life
and we just wanted to alert everyone as to the "real" general strength among the industry as a whole.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Index on the Rise
February 15, 2008
The past nine months have been very rough for investors in uranium equities, and our long-term chart for theinvestar's
Canadian Uranium Average fully supports this statement, but it appears as though the industry has bottomed and is now
on its way up. Our index fell all the way down to 141.87 on February 8, 2008 from a high of 325.915 on August 9, 2007
and the losses were across the board with only a few winners in that time-frame. As you can see by the chart below, it
appears that in the past week we tested lows set in late January, pretty much held those levels with minimum further
movement to the downside. Now uranium equities are moving upwards to test the recent high set on January 24 of this
year.
Continue Reading...
Markets Going Forward
February 8, 2008
For months now we have been stating that the mortgage market can go lower and lower as many people thought that
the problem could be over in a matter of months. It is a situation we find very interesting as well as quite frightening at
the same time. Recently we could not help but to chuckle at the predicament some of the smartest men in the world
find themselves stuck in.
Continue Reading...
Bottoming Out?
February 1, 2008
After the Fed meeting this week which took place over a two day period (Tuesday and Wednesday) we received the rate
cut the markets wanted and needed, 50 basis points. Just as the market began to cheer and the Dow and Nasdaq were
at session highs, financial fears re-entered the market and spooked markets all the way down to session lows. It seems
that those fears may have been a bit overblown now that it is apparent that Wall Street banks are preparing to make
some rather large investments in the bond insurers to save their own backs.
Continue Reading...
Tough Love
January 25, 2008
As markets in the States were closed on Monday, uranium equities fell in sympathy with stocks around the world. The
rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve spared markets in the States from the 5% drops experienced on bourses around the
world, and even propelled world markets higher during the next trading day. Through all of this, uranium related stocks
fell and then simply yawned.
Continue Reading...
Developing Trends
Friday January 18, 2008
Although uranium equities have continued to be battered by investors over the past few weeks, the news flow has been
quite positive. One could argue that all of this news has been wasted on the current market, however even if one is not
invested in uranium equities to the extent they once were this news should be kept up on so moves can be quickly
made once the market begins to move upwards again.
Continue Reading...
Bright Future for Potash
Friday, January 11, 2008
In the past year many have discovered that the farming stocks, be they those who grow the crops or the companies who
manufacture the seed or even those who supply the fertilizers, have been nothing but stellar, to say the least. Deere
(DE) nearly doubled last year, with Monsanto nearly tripling, and Archer Daniel Midland up roughly 50%. As impressive
as these gains were, the most spectacular were found in the fertilizer industry, particularly those stocks involved in the
process of mining potash. Among the larger companies who have exposure to potash:
Continue Reading...
2008: A Year for Investing in Uranium Equities
January 3, 2008
Uranium equities have stabilized in recent days with the uranium average bouncing back to the mid-180 level and
only recently crossing back over the 190+ level . Investors have begun to test the waters and wade back into
some of these issues rather than jump in blindly. It appears that we may have experienced the worst of the tax
selling in both Canada and the United States, so the table seems set for 2008.
Continue Reading...
Uranium Investors Returning from Hibernation?
December 21, 2007
In the past week uranium equities continued their march downwards towards this year's lows. In fact, they even
set a new yearly closing low in Tuesday's trading as indicated by our Canadian uranium index. Trading sessions
on Wednesday and Thursday provided a bump upwards for uranium stocks which is what we would have
expected and is quite healthy.
Continue Reading...
Miserable No Longer?
December 10, 2007
The past few weeks have been quite difficult for uranium investors as the market in general remains reluctant to
take on risk. This risk aversion has led uranium equities downwards with some companies' stocks either at or
approaching multi-year lows and our uranium index once again near this year's lows. Until the market as a whole
has a good feeling for what to expect with the mortgage related write-downs, volatility will most certainly surround
such high risk, high reward situations such as our junior uranium mining stocks.
Continue Reading...
Oilsands Quest Perking Up
November 9, 2007
As we continue to favor the nuclear renaissance over many other investment themes out there, we would also
like to revisit our favorite non-uranium companies: Oilsands Quest (BQI). The stock has been in a strong uptrend
over the past few months, in fact the stock has more than doubled off of its lows set in July of this year.
Continue Reading...
Positive News for Uranium Stocks
October 31, 2007
The Federal Reserve meets today, and the market is betting that a rate cut is indeed in the cards. Most agree that
it will be a 25 basis-point cut. It is our belief that the Fed should probably hold steady here with rates, but speak in
overly dovish terms to assure the markets that they are still keeping a close eye on the current situation in the
credit markets.
Continue Reading...
Revaluing the Market
October 19, 2007
Uranium equities have been relatively quiet lately, with little or no movement in their prices. Our experience over
the years with dealing with the uranium juniors tells us this is probably the calm before the storm.
Continue Reading...
Cameco + BHP Billiton...as go the Generals, so too Should the Foot Soldiers
October 4, 2007
We know that everybody here is familiar with the investment thesis regarding uranium. Our position has been and
continues to be that the investment thesis remains intact.
Continue Reading...
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
September 19, 2007
Big Ben came around for the equities markets again dropping rates by 50 basis points, nearly double what the
consensus was but in line with the most optimistic calls. In response US markets rose, along with equities
markets around the world.
Continue Reading...
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Notice Anything?
In case you have not noticed, we have
made some changes over the past few
days by making this our home page to
serve both our traditional uranium section
as well as the new potash section. If you
would like to visit the new Potash
Headquarters, you can either click here
or use the icon to the left.
We are currently running troubleshooting
procedures in order to detect any bugs
that may now exist in the system in order
to provide you with the same experience
you have grown accustomed to and
expect. If you should run across any
problems please feel free to use the
'Contact Us' link to send us a message.
Thank You,
-theinvestar.com Team
made some changes over the past few
days by making this our home page to
serve both our traditional uranium section
as well as the new potash section. If you
would like to visit the new Potash
Headquarters, you can either click here
or use the icon to the left.
We are currently running troubleshooting
procedures in order to detect any bugs
that may now exist in the system in order
to provide you with the same experience
you have grown accustomed to and
expect. If you should run across any
problems please feel free to use the
'Contact Us' link to send us a message.
Thank You,
-theinvestar.com Team
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