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FVITF Making Sense of Fortuna Silver's Recent PPS Action 08/21/08 — When any company, not just Fortuna Silver Mines (FVITF.PK), issues several news releases that contain substantive and positive developments on several fronts, the prices for its products recover and the share price proceeds to dump by up to 20%... click to enlarge

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IPRFF Junior Mining Companies To Benefit From LME Rule Change 07/08/08 — An important change is coming to the London Metal Exchange [LME] in September. As from September 29th, the biggest and by far the most important copper trading ring in the world is extending future contracts on the red metal to 123 months out, i.e. 10 years into the future. Presently, copper futures ...

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IPRFF Inca Pacific Gets Vote of Confidence from Top Mining Firm 06/24/08 — Weird timing. I pick up on Inca Pacific [IPR.V] (IPRFF.PK) on Sunday and yesterday the company announces another very positive piece of news. Kinda reminds me of what happened to GLQ.TO when I posted on it*... nah... let's not dream down that lane today. ...

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PCU Southern Copper's Stock Split Doesn't Hurt Its Fundamentals One Bit 06/20/08 — After the bell Wednesday, Southern Copper Corp (PCU) announced a 3 for 1 stock split to happen July 10th to shareholders of record 30th June (i.e. end 2Q08). I'm not a fan of these things, but some traders play the bumps made by hot splitting stocks and swear by the action it gives them. The dow...

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NETC MELI NET Servicos: A Smart Way To Play the Latin Boom 05/19/08 — I was totally unimpressed with the Mercado Libre (MELI) earnings last week, but that didn't stop the sheep from buying the stock back up to U$55. As mentioned before, I covered my MELI short at a very small profit rather than fight the tide of illogic. I've looked at the company previously, but a...

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PBR Petroleo Brasileiro: Reality Begins to Bite 04/29/08 — It has finally dawned on people that the 33 billion barrels of oil Petrobras (PBR) has supposedly found in its new deep-water survey isn't the manna from heaven that foolish analysts made it out to be. Way back on April 17th, your humble correspondent totally nailed the story with this...

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PCU Southern Copper: Buying and Holding is Boring, But it Works 04/28/08 — On Friday, Southern Copper Corporation (PCU) released its 1Q08 results, and they came in very much in line. Production was lower due to the Cananea strike in Mexico (still rumbling on) but price rises in copper pushed up profits. Rather than repeat the numerical bones, here's the Reu...

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TEO Argentina’s Merval Index: An Overview 04/04/08 — The idea of this piece is to look at the new weighting of the Argentina Merval index that was announced late last week, and use the news to talk a little about some of the companies listed there.

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