Cameco’s Uranium for New Mexico’s New Enrichment Facility?

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Guess what? Our recent investigation shows the uranium to be enriched in the LES/Urenco proposed enrichment facility in Lea County, New Mexico may come neither from uranium properties in New Mexico nor anywhere else in the United States. Just as New Mexico’s nuclear/uranium mining renaissance was ready to get underway, a deal may have already been cut to enrich uranium mined in a foreign country. Louisiana Energy Services (LES), through the consortium’s general partner Urenco Ltd., may have struck a deal with Canadian-based Cameco Corp. Will this uranium come from Canada or Kazakhstan?

According to New Mexico State Senator Carroll H. Leavell, the uranium ore to be enriched at the facility near Eunice, New Mexico facility would be coming from outside the United States. Senator Leavell told StockInterview, “The uranium ore will be coming out of Saskatchewan.” When we asked if the uranium to be enriched in New Mexico would come from the Athabasca Basin, an area hosting the world’s richest grades of uranium and which is also located in northern Saskatchewan, Senator Leavell claimed he wasn’t sure where the Athabasca Basin was. But he told us that Urenco Ltd informed him the uranium was coming from that western Canadian province.

We can only speculate the uranium producer might be Cameco Corp. On July 22, 2002, Cameco signed a Memorandum of Agreement with LES, along with Urenco Ltd, Westinghouse Electric Company, Fluor Daniel and the affiliates of U.S. utilities: Exelon, Duke and Entergy. In an email response to our inquiry, earlier this week, Netherlands-based Urenco Ltd Communications Coordinator April Wildegose-Mistry informed us, “Cameco Corp was part of the original LES project. They pulled out around March 2003 as they needed to focus on other business issues.”

We have also asked to interview Urenco’s CEO. Perhaps he may clarify this matter for us. One industry insider told us Cameco stated its continued support for the LES initiative after it withdrew as a partner. However, the recent joint venture company, Enrichment Technology Company, formed by Areva and Urenco may open the possibility the uranium could also come from Areva’s uranium interests in Athabasca. AREVA is a Paris-based company offering technological solutions for nuclear power generation, and electricity transmission and distribution.

This development could further irritate at least one New Mexico legislator. State representative John A. Heaton from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and who also sits on New Mexico’s Energy and Natural Resource Committee, was adamant about U.S. independence from foreign energy sources. He told StockInterview, “We need to use the assets we have and not be dependent upon foreign countries. I worry a lot about the dependence we have on other countries.”

In this instance, Heaton might be getting a double-whammy of foreign dependence. Not only is Urenco Ltd a foreign-owned and controlled company (a Dutch/ British/German consortium), but the uranium its New Mexico facility would be enriching could come from at least one foreign source, Canada. Because the uranium ore might be sourced from Cameco, yet another country’s uranium could be supplying the New Mexico enrichment facility: Kazakhstan.

Cameco plans to boost uranium mining in this former Soviet country to a level which might approach its uranium production
in the Athabasca Basin. Kazakhstan recently joined the “Putin Alliance” of uranium-producing countries. On June 22nd, Kazakhstan signed a contract worth $1 billion to supply Russia’s Tekhsnabexport to supply Russians with uranium through the year 2020. The Economist Magazine’s Economic Intelligence Unit recently issued a caution on this country.

We asked our uranium industry analyst, David Miller, about this new twist in the LES/Urenco story. Miller is a third-term Wyoming legislator, who is an original member of the Wyoming Energy Commission and a past member of the National Council of State Legislator’s (NCSL) Energy Committee., now serving on a NCSL-related committee. Miller is also president of Strathmore Minerals, a company which is now advancing its properties through the permitting process in New Mexico. Miller told us, “The State of New Mexico may miss out on the hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues from potential severance, ad valorem, sales and other taxes the domestic industry would pay the state to mine uranium in New Mexico. Instead, the foreign uranium pays zero taxes to enter the state for enrichment.” In other words, Cameco or another may be getting a free ride on taxes.

Ominously, Miller asks these questions, “The real question for New Mexico is this: What happens to the part of the uranium that does not go onto the fabrication plant? Does it stay in New Mexico? Is it shipped back to Russia, Kazakhstan or Saskatchewan?” This gave us pause for thought. After it leaves New Mexico, how do we know it would be used for civilian energy purposes? Could it be transported elsewhere and be more highly enriched? That’s just speculation.

Miller recommended that New Mexico legislators demand the LES plant be fed uranium mined in New Mexico, not in Canada or Kazakhstan. “If this were to happen,” Miller wrote in an email to us, “thousands of new mining jobs would be created in areas of New Mexico which need the most economic development.” Once the world’s leading uranium producer, New Mexico’s Grants Uranium Belt is again being explored by more than a dozen companies. Some hope to permit and operate new uranium production centers in New Mexico. We trust this latest wrinkle will awaken New Mexico’s legislators and help them protect uranium mining developments in their states. Perhaps their voters, who might be looking for higher paying jobs, would appreciate that.

Your Steps To Maximize Your HYIP

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Any investor wishes to make money in HYIP. Finding a successful high yield investment program is not enough to maximize your high yield investments. Certainly it is not easy to maximize your return on investment from best HYIP. The main point of this article is the strategies how to find “fruitful” and prosperous HYIP and to maximize your interests from this HYIP.

Before we start to discuss the strategies, we should find an answer to the question what is best HYIP. Well, it is difficult to answer because there are various possibilities. For some investors the “fruitful” HYIP is HYIP with huge daily interest, for other HYIPers the “fruitful” HYIP is HYIP with instantly withdraw. Undoubtedly, all these investors are right.

I guess than each investor wishes the “fruitful” HYIP which is online for a long time, not just several weeks or a few months. Moreover, each investor wishes that “fruitful” HYIPs must have fast support. Some HYIPs reply to your questions within 1-2 days and, of course, it is too long! I am a potential investor and I need to get an answer immediately!

Certainly, you can find many answers in FAQ section of a great number of HYIP web sites but sometimes you need information which you can not find there. If HYIP has phone support so it is very good, you can always phone them and get answers to your questions.

According to many experienced online investors, one of the most important things for the “fruitful” HYIP is fast withdraws. No one wants to wait 1 or 2 days till they receive payment. Certainly, everyone wants to get money within few hours. “Fruitful” HYIPs have to pay fast.

All investors agree with me that HYIP security is significant in online investments. Of course, the “fruitful” and prosperous HYIP must have the server protection to guarantee that users’ accounts are safe and secure. Real “fruitful” HYIPs spend a lot of money for hosting and advertising as well as Ddos protection and security.

If HYIP has Prolexic Ddos protection it is a really good sign of seriousness of this high yield investment program because according to online security data, Prolexic Ddos protection costs more than $2000 per month.

Daily interests are the subject of many hot discussions on online HYIP forums because investors have very different opinions. Some people prefer 10-20% daily and other like 1-2% daily. Undoubtedly, the prosperous HYIP invests money into Forex trading and to other contemporary industries. So if HYIP earn money in Forex they can not offer 10-20%. It is impossible and each investor knows that.

Now the time is to discuss ways how to maximize your HYIP. After having found the “fruitful” and prosperous HYIP, the key to having successful investments is to build a safe, diversified portfolio and to extract your own money as quickly as possible. This will limit risk to your capital because if one programme closes, you will still have the others to fall back on.

Before investing in any programme, you should do a little research on it. I mean you should remember the main features of prosperous HYIP, namely daily interests of no more than 2-3%, excellent support, high qualified web site design of the HYIP company and best users’ account protection.

Besides, HYIP scripts are easily to get a hold of and this makes it easier for fraudsters and scammers to operate. One of the things to look
for is the programmer’s reputation if they are paying consistently.

When the investor makes any online investment, his aim is to extract his money as quickly as possible. This is because the investor wants to be able to invest using the profit he made from the high yield investment programme to protect his own capital. For example, a typical investment could be $100 then, after 30 days, the investor would extract his own money and re-invest the profits so that he is making risk that he uses “other people’s money”.

Another meaningful thing is that the investor will need to make use of referral systems to explode his profits from his investments. This is when the investor recommends someone to the programme and receives commission for it. This usually creates residual income for the investor which means him the opportunity to invest more of “other people’s money” to make even more cash.

This article will help you find “fruitful” and prosperous HYIP and maximize your high yield investments. To grab my collection of golden rules successful HYIP investing visit

Some Words About Online Investment

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What do you know about profitable investing online? I will tell you some ways of successful online investments, types of schemes and much more.

Maybe you know or not that the key to a profitable investment is just a single word – “diversify”. What do you need to do? It is easy. You should divide total investment among several different HYIPs so as to minimize risk. Only this method will help to save your money from crash. Investing in a single program is risky, because if the program collapses, you lose all your money. But if you put your money into many programs, if one of the programs fails, you will still have money in other programs.

You should create your portfolio as wide as possible. Let me give you example.

If your total investment is around 1000$ then portfolio should include atleast 10 (or even more) different HYIPs. Invest about 50-60% in long term good old HYIPs and the rest 50-40% in new HYIPs. These may include:

Long term HYIPs are those that give around 1.5% daily This HYIPs also have a good track history over 1 year, excellent customer support, professional web design and hosting, etc.

New HYIPs pay around 2-3% daily. This HYIPs also have unique professional web design & certain degree of reliability in other factors. Do not invest in new HYIPs that pay less interest(around 1%daily) with a poor non-professional web design, etc.

You may invest in HYIPs which pay 2-3% daily, have a professional template design & other good features. Chances to be in profit is good.

You may invest in ponzi schemes that give 3-5% daily. Also you can find many HYIPs that offer you more than 10% daily for 30 days or 25%daily for 5 days, etc. It is not real interest. Do not believe in such HYIPs.

Scam HYIPs are run on ponzi schemes. A ponzi is an illegal pyramid system in which higher level members are paid with the investments from newer members. They actually have a short life time. Many people lose money in these scams. Their websites are made from cheap old regular common templates(not a professional & unique design), anonymous contact information, give high interest rates(>3% daily is suspected as a ponzi),have an attractive referral system, etc.

Invest in still higher interest paying HYIPs if you can risk higher. HYIPs such as 7% daily for 60 days or 50% daily for 3 days are real scams. However if you are lucky, you can be in great profits provided you invested while the HYIP was just new. But risk factor is also very high and I suggest not to invest more than 40$-60$ in such high risk HYIPs. It is always better to avoid them.

Now some words about average life cycle of HYIPs:

Extra Long term HYIPs(ponzi & real HYIPs)
Such HYIPs pay about 1-1.7% daily or around 25% monthly interests. They usually last for a long time over up to a year. Invest in these only if it has a good history for about a year because profit recovery is very slow.

Long term HYIPs (mostly ponzi)
They pay 2-3% daily and last for about 4-5 months. Some even last for more than half a year. These are the most optimal HYIPs for investing.

Medium term HYIPs (ponzi)
Pay around 4-7% daily. Last for about a month(sometimes 15 days) to a couple of months.

Short term HYIPs (ponzi)
Pay >10% daily. Last for few days to few weeks.

Managing Your Risks In The Stock Market

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Whenever you invest your money in the stock market, you take on a certain amount of risk. While there is no way to get around that risk, it is possible to manage your risk by educating yourself before you start trading.

One of the most important things to remember about any investment, is that if your capital is borrowed, you take on an even greater risk than the actual investment itself. It is never a good idea to borrow, either from a lending institution or from your credit cards, to come up with the money you need for any particular investment. This maximizes your risk in that, if the investment doesn’t pan out, you will still have to repay the amount you borrowed, and may even have to pay penalties depending on your financial position and ability to repay.

Make sure that before you start trading, you have planned ahead and set aside the capital you will need to invest. This will eliminate that third party, and ensure all of your profits will go in your pocket, and not some bank’s ledger. Keep in mind, though, not only will you need the money for your capital, but also for the most expensive part of the stock market – brokers fees.

While each broker will have different rates, most charge a flat fee per trade. These flat fees make it much easier to see a return on your investment much sooner than you would with a variable rate. This also means that, if you are starting with a fairly large investment of perhaps $10,000, and the brokers trading fee was a $100 flat rate per trade, you would only have to see a one percent return to break even. Of course the reverse is also true, in that if you are starting with a smaller investment of only $1000 or so, you would have to see at least a ten percent return to do the same.

Your rate of return will also depend on whether you are investing in a short term or long term system. In a short term system, you will have many more trading fees, since it is based on the buy low, sell high, do it now philosophy. With a long term system, however, you will incur far fewer trading fees due to the fact that with a long term investment, you are investing in the future viability of a company, rather than in an immediate merger or other change.

Managing your money wisely will help to manage your risk. But it is important to remember that even when your monetary risk has been considered, there is always the market risk. That is to say that there is always the chance that when you invest in the stock market today, there is no guarantee that the market will exist tomorrow. There are no guarantees in stock market trading, and there is no way to eliminate your risks entirely. But with good financial planning, and a little common sense, stock investments can be a wonderful way to provide money for your future.

Why You Should Focus on the Foreclosure Niche In Your Real Estate Investing Business

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The opportunities that exist in the foreclosure niche are huge right now and they are continuing to grow at a rapid pace. This is spurred by the increase in foreclosure rates across the country being led by California and Florida. Focusing on foreclosure transactions allows you to work on Luxury Homes without the traditional Risk you would normally assume by qualifying and signing for a mortgage.
In the Foreclosure Niche, you take control of a property by “getting the deed” and selling the home to an investor or owner occupant depending on the price range, neighborhood and condition of the house. By Focusing on Luxury and Higher end Home, you can make more profit per house with the same amount of work. When you combine this with the ability to short sale Jumbo Mortgages, You’ve got your golden ticket.
Lenders are extremely flexible on negotiating high dollar mortgages and jumbo loans because they definitely don’t want these houses back. Would you rather make 10% of a 150 thousand dollar home or 10% of a 1.5 million dollar home? The Mortgage Marketplace has created such a large number of defaulted mortgages that it has created unlimited opportunities to do these types of transactions.
This is because of the very aggressive sub prime products they put out in the market place and their loosened guidelines for allowing weak borrowers to buy properties they normally wouldn’t have been able to buy. They did this because of competition needed to get their money out in the market place. The Foreclosure Niche is the Best Niche in the Real Estate Investing Business because:
1. The ability to control High Dollar and High Profit Potential Homes with no Risk.
2. You don’t have to have Good Credit because you don’t have to qualify for mortgages in your own name.
3. You don’t need a lot of money to get started. This business has very low barriers of entry.
4. You don’t need any experience because if you follow my system, it will show you how to create the huge checks by following the step by step system.
5. You can purchase a foreclosure quickly because you have a motivated, cooperative seller.
There are not enough investors in the marketplace right now to handle the volume of homes going into foreclosure. We need more investors and I’m on a mission to create very successful investors that want to get extremely wealthy over the next two to three years.
This situation won’t last forever. Just 3 years ago it was very difficult to find these types of deals. Its so easy now, its pathetic! Take advantage of it while its here.
To get a Free 52 Week Foreclosure Investing eCourse, click this link right now: http://www.dcfawcett.com

Financial Freedom

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Financial freedom eludes so many people these days who by all logical conclusions and observations should have obtained it. It’s commonly cited as one of the most important and sought after goals in life and yet is rarely attained. This article does not attempt to give you a magic formula for success but I do share with you the choices that made a difference to me and can, if you choose put you well on the path to freedom.

Consumption
You can choose to spend some or all of your money on “consumption” items. These include food, entertainment, holidays, housing, motor cars, hobbies, and so on. These are things we need to live on a day-to-day basis. They also consist of items that service the things we want and so improve lifestyle.

Investment
You can choose to spend some or all of your money on investment items such as revenue producing real estate, shares, interest bearing deposits, businesses that produce revenue, etc.

Consumption or investment
Two important factors need to be understood about the simple concepts of consumption and investment.

The first factor is that spending on “consumption” items results in reducing the total value of your assets (net worth). Spending on investment items aims to increase your net worth. The second factor is that you have choice. You can choose between spending on consumption or investment items.

Of course, the best spending patterns are those that aim to attain a balance between spending on consumption and investment items.

Choosing consumption or investment
You now know the difference between consumption and investment spending and that you can choose between the two.

All you need to do is to think before you spend. Consumption spending can contribute to your lifestyle (driving a new car is fun, even if it was bought on credit and has created a liability of three to five years of payments). Investment spending provides income and wealth.

Shades of Grey
There is, of course, some spending that is not clearly defined as consumption or investment. Buying your own home is considered by many to be an investment. It isn’t! The purchase usually is financed and the repayments are a liability. The upkeep of a house costs money. There are rates and taxes payable on it. You do not get any revenue from it. If you plan to sell it in a few years to make a profit on its increased value, then it may be an investment. However if you have to buy another house to live in are you really any better off?

Investment spending is necessary for building wealth
In order to build wealth, some investment spending is necessary. The more that goes into investment spending, the bigger and quicker your wealth will grow. However, if too much goes into investment spending, and not enough into consumption, then lifestyle can become meagre. But you can choose.

Accumulation over time
Most people are not born rich. Certainly, some inherit wealth, but consequently may not appreciate it. A few win wealth in lotteries, but ironically, perhaps because they have not worked for it, or are not used to it, could end up squandering the temporary riches.

Everyone, however, has one thing in common. The same amount of time goes past for each of us, and at the same rate. How you employ that time is significant.

Imagine that at the age of 21, you
invested $1,000 at an average annual rate of return of 10%, and then by the time you reach 65, you would have accumulated over $70,000 without doing anything else.

If at the age of 21, you invested $1,000 at an average annual rate of return of 10%, and each month invested an additional $100, then by the time you reach 65, you would be a millionaire, without doing anything else.

If you did neither of these things, then the same time would pass, and you would not have accumulated any wealth.

These examples of investment, quite deliberately, use amounts of money that are affordable by most, and if spent on investment, rather than consumption, would probably not be missed.

In terms of investing, time is on your side.
Of course, you may not be 21 any more and you may wish to accumulate wealth at a faster rate. This is possible by increasing the amount invested, and the annual rate of return. It is not possible to systematically accumulate significant wealth (millions) without looking at a timeframe of several years (say 5 to 10). If you are trying to make more money in less time, then your objectives may not be realistic. Perhaps a lottery ticket, crossed fingers and large amount of luck could produce your desired result, but don’t hold your breath waiting.

The power of compounding
In the above examples there is an additional factor at work. The entire return was reinvested and participated in earning the same rate of return as the original investment. None of the investment return was withdrawn and spent on consumption items.

Making sure your daytrading plan works

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In our article "Define your Goals and Make a Plan" you learned:
How to define your financial and trading goals.
How to select the right market for your trading goals.
What timeframe you should trade in.
The difference between trading styles and how to find the right one for you.
How to create a basic daytrading plan.
Now that you defined your goals and created your daytrading plan, you need to make sure it really works. Thus far everything might look great, but how can you be sure that the day trading system works when you start trading it with real money?
Evaluating a trading system is easier than you think. Below you’ll find 10 Principles of Successful Day Trading Systems that we developed and refined over the last couple of years. You should use these Power Principles to evaluate your trading system, whether you developed it on your own or think about purchasing one. By checking a system against these principles you can dramatically increase the chances of being successful.
Here we go:
Principle #1: Few rules – easy to understand
It may surprise you that the best daytrading systems have less than 10 rules. The more rules you have, the more likely you "curve-fitted" your trading system to the past, and such an over-optimized system is very unlikely to produce profits in real markets.
It’s important that your rules are easy to understand and execute. The markets can behave very wild and move fast, and you won’t have the time to calculate complicated formulas in order to make a trading decision. Think about successful floor traders: The only tool they use is a calculator, and they make thousands of dollars every day.

Principle #2: Trade electronic and liquid markets
I strongly recommend that you trade electronic markets because commissions are lower and you receive instant fills. You need to know as fast as possible if your order was filled and at what price, because based on this information you plan your exit.
You should never place an exit order before you know that your entry order is filled. When you trade open outcry markets (non-electronic) you might have to wait a while before you receive your fill. By that time, the market might have already turned and your profitable trade has turned into a loss!
When trading electronic markets you receive your fills in less than one second and can immediately place your exit orders. Trading liquid markets you can avoid slippage, which will save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Principle #3: Realistic expectations
Losses are part of our business. A trading system that doesn’t have losses is "too good to be true". Recently I ran into a trading system with a whopping winning percentage of 91% and a drawdown of less than $500. WOW!
When looking at the details it turned out that the daytrading system was only tested on 87 trades and – of course – curve fitted. If you run across trading systems with numbers too good to be true, then it’s probably exactly THAT: Too good to be true.
Usually you can expect the following from a robust trading system:

Investing in Orlando Land

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With the rampant development happening in most parts of the country, the purchase of land is becoming more and more secure in terms of investment. Have you ever wandered around the undeveloped areas in your town or city and wondered who owns them? Or maybe you have seen the "land for sale" signs on open lots and fields. Well, people are making great money on selling land for new developments and sub-divisions. Who owns that land? It could be you.

Investing in land is something that takes a bit of research, timing, and some risk but it can be extremely rewarding if done properly. The first thing you need to wonder about when considering a certain piece of land is the zoning of that land. This is probably the most important factor in land purchases. If the land is not zoned for residential, getting the zoning changed for sale to a development company interested in sub-divisions could be kind of tricky. The same can be said for land that is not zoned for commercial purposes. So do your homework when looking at different land parcels. Make sure that the zoning is appropriate for you and who you want to sell to at the end.

If you are thinking large scale when doing this, prepare to spend a fair chunk of cash. These days land is not too cheap. But in comparison to what you can expect as a ROI in a few years it is well worth the time and money. If you live in an expanding area where housing is at a premium then buying land is a fantastic idea. It should only be a matter of time until the developers come knocking. Or, if you are so inclined, sub-divide your land yourself. The process does have some merit as a great profit can be realized from the sale of single home lots. When you get down to brass tacks, investing in land is a great way to make some profit and increase your wealth exponentially.

Tax Liens and Distress Sales – Opportunities for Real Estate Investing

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With the current real estate hiccup going on the U.S., more and more people are losing their homes because they failed to pay their home mortgages. But what happens to the homes is something few people think about. This can be a very good real estate investing opportunity for the shrewd, and one can quickly earn profits in a very short amount of time.

How To Earn Through Tax Liens

If a homeowner has defaulted on his payment, then the mortgaging bank will start the pre-foreclosure process. A tax lien will then be issued for the property, so that the right to retain the property can be gained. You can do real estate investing in tax liens for a certain property that has been issued a lien and put out for an auction sale. The way you can earn profit from this is that the state will pay fixed interest on a tax lien and there are others that will start the bidding price at auctions in the amount of the lien.

If the tax lien is unpaid during the duration of the redemption period, then all other mortgages and liabilities on the house are extinguished, and the title to the property will be cleared. The investor will now own his or her new property with a clean title. If the owner can pay the liability on his property however, the investor can still earn through interest earned on the lien. Real estate investing in this manner can lead to profits both ways.

Real Estate Investing Through Auctions

Sales of properties by tax-distressed owners can be quite a steal. However, you’ll need to find out if your real estate investing opportunity is going to be worth it. Check the property location beforehand, because you might be buying something worthless, like purchasing a piece of land that is routinely flooded. If you are able to acquire and own a piece of land legally, you can participate in property auctions as well. But, you’ll have to have ready cash on hand or in easy access, because auction sites will typically require that those who win the bidding on their chosen properties to pay a down payment or the full amount in a short span of time, if not cash up front. This is one of those investments not for those without capital.

Starting Up Your Own Real Estate Investing Business

You can always start up your own business in the real estate investing industry. Given that you have enough capital, and you have enough knowledge on the state rules on tax liens in your area, you can start investing in property tax liens immediately. One of the most important things to do when doing business in this nature is to check the property liens that you’ll be buying. Physical inspection is needed, but since it can be so time consuming, limit your searches to somewhere you can drive to. A real estate investing business will also require that you have adequate knowledge of the legal processes involved, since tax-distressed sales by homeowners will involve banks and other institutions, most notably the government. You can earn high profits with just a few pieces of properties sold, but you can also spread the profit out and sell properties for a smaller markup, provided that the turnover for those profits will be faster so you can move on to other properties for sale.

A distress sale is a great opportunity for investment, but one should always be careful since at auctions you won’t know if the property you’re buying is a good buy, and not a lemon. You should also check if the owner of the property is not on the verge of bankruptcy, because the IRS can override your lien and take first priority as well as your real estate investing opportunity away from you.