BASIC NOTES

Uranium Companies

There are very few pure uranium companies. Most companies, especially the small exploration type, are active in more than the uranium industry. This blog makes no attempt to guage the percentage of a companies activity that are related to the finding, mining or processing of uraniun. They all do, however, have some uranium activities (to the best of our review).

Merv's Uranium Indices

I have developed two Uranium Indices. They each have the same component stocks but are calculated using different methodologies. My weekly Index is based upon the average weekly performance of the component stocks. My daily Index is based upon the daily average of the component stocks open, high, low and close prices along with the daily average volume of all component stocks.

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27 November 2008

Merv's Daily Commentary, 27 Nov 2008


After The Close, 27 Nov 2008

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data

Open: 112.33
High: 116.89
Low: 108.68
Close: 113.77
Volume: 2927

Note that the volume is an average volume of round lot sales for the 50 component stocks. For total volume, multiply by 5000.

With the U.S. markets closed the trading in Canada was very light. Basically a holding day waiting for the next something to happen. As we see below the number of stocks that either did not trade because of the U.S. close plus just those that went nowhere was about the highest number in my recent memory. One should not place too much on today’s actions therefore.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed higher by a whole 0.41 points or 0.36%. There were 19 winners, 15 losers, 5 U.S. stocks that did not trade and 11 going nowhere. As for the five largest stocks, Cameco lost 0.6%, Denison gained 2.0%, Paladin gained 3.7%, Uranium One gained 9.8% and USEC did not trade. The best winner today was Trigon Uranium with a gain of 25.0% while the worst loser was Azimut Exploration with a loss of 18.1%.

As the action was quite benign today nothing has changed from the ratings standpoint. So, as a basically lazy individual I’ll just suggest you go to yesterday’s analysis and it’s the same today.

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