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One of the more banal and annoying statements we hear whenever share prices fall is that ‘markets hate uncertainty’. It gives the impression that the stock market would be fine if only things weren’t so uncertain. The market deals in uncertainty. It is a discounting mechanism, constantly looking into the future, which is of course [...]

Most people tend to think that small cap stocks
are all growth companies. The prevailing wisdom is that if a company has
a market cap below $3 billion then the reason to buy shares is that the
company has tons of room to grow. …

This ranking was UPDATED TODAY before 4:30 AM ET. Below are the top U.S. Small Cap stocks with highest potential upside, calculated as the difference between current price and Wall Street analysts’ average target price.

Robert Friedland, Chairman, and Peter Reeve, Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Australia Limited announced today that $30 million of development capital has been approved for the Kulthor/Osborne development on the company’s Cloncurry district t…

Thomas & Betts Corporation today reported an 11.5% increase in net sales and a 13.8% increase in net earnings from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2010.
Sales in the quarter were $532.5 million, up 11.5% compared to the fourth quarter…

BE Group, the Nordic region’s leading independent trading and service company in steel and other metals, is investing SEK 14 M in increased production service capacity. The investment is being made at the company’s facility in Lahti, Finland.
“O…

India’s environment ministry approved on Monday South Korean POSCO’s plans for a $12 billion steel mill, a boost for the foreign investment climate in Asia’s third-largest economy after several setbacks for big ticket industrial proj…

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Leading steel product manufacturer Nucor Corporation reported a net loss for fourth-quarter 2010 that was largely due to higher costs and expenses, although production and sales impr…

Good afternoon everybody.  Here’s a quick update.
 
GENM was 41 cents when I sent it out, opened at 41.5 or 42 the next
morning.  Two trading days later it hit 55 cents, a gain of up to 34%.
 
If you bought GENM during yesterday’s dip to 36 cents…

–Boy, it sure isn’t a good look for the land of the free and the home of the brave that American-made F-16s and M1 Abrams battle tanks are out in force across Egypt now. But cosmetics and theatrics aside, there’s a bigger story here: the entire geopolitical arrangement that has grown up around the U.S. [...]