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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19 January 2009

Merv's Daily Commentary, 19 Jan 2009


After The Close, 19 Jan 2009

Merv’s Daily Uranium Index
Market Data

Open: 141.45
High: 145.88
Low: 136.60
Close: 141.96
Volume: 6114

Note that the volume is an average volume of round lot sales for the 5 0 component stocks. For total volume, multiply by 5000.

It was a so-so day for the uranium stocks but even with the holiday in the U.S. the volume of trading was respectable. The final numbers were on the plus side but nothing from the ratings had changed.

The Merv’s Daily Uranium Index closed higher by 1.97 points or 1.41%. There were 27 winners, 9 losers and 14 going nowhere. Most of these going nowhere were trading on the U.S. Exchanges and therefore there was no action due to their markets being closed for Martin Luther Jr. Day. Tomorrow I’m not sure what to expect. Even should the markets be open all the Obama fans will probably be occupied. Of the five largest stocks, Cameco was going nowhere, Paladin gained 8.1%, Uranium One gained 11.5%, Uranium Participation gained 1.1% and USEC went nowhere. The best daily performer was JNR Resources with a gain of 24.1% while the worst daily performer was Titan Uranium with a loss of 8.7%.

As mentioned above, nothing much happened today and the ratings remain unchanged. Both the intermediate and long term ratings remain BULLISH.

The immediate direction remains in a lateral path although the Index does keep inching up.

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