Silver's bear-market bottom was carved in November 2001 just over $4. That very month I started formally recommending silver bullion as a long-term investment to our newsletter subscribers. Soon after in early 2002 I started investing and speculating in silver stocks. Over the years since, we've been blessed with many awesome realized and unrealized gains in this silver realm.

But silver's manic-depressive bull sure hasn't been easy to trade. The metal's mighty parabolic surges are the stuff of market legend. If you are long the silver complex when they happen, you will make a fortune. But between these rare hyper-exciting episodes, the vast majority of the time this metal generally grinds along sideways in seemingly endless consolidations. Few other sectors are as psychologically challenging to traders.

Dion hints Liberals willing to let budget stand

Cue the personal attacks from the Harpercrite apologists.

Care to try and make your point without attacking his english (which is as good or better than Harper's french, IMO), his heritage, his physique, or other superficial and irrelevant things?

Can you do it?

Didn't think so.

Don't feel too bad....neither can the CPC. Their attack ads are all sizzle and no steak. And pathetic, to boot.

That's why your hero's party is basically in a tie with Dion's in the polls.

That's why Harper will never get his majority.

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MCX to support Microsoft's rural technology training programme

MUMBAI: Multi Commodity Exchange of India on Thursday announced its support to an ongoing computer literacy programme of Microsoft and Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals in rural Maharashtra.

This marks the launch of MCX's Corporate Social Responsibility initiative aimed at empowering the youth and women of rural areas of the state with technology skills.

Till now over 15,500 people have been trained and more than 24,000 people are using this service across 16 districts by the means of understanding the futures markets prices of the area specific commodities.

MCX's support will help in increasing deployment of laptop and desktop computers and thereby strengthen the ongoing technology training and adoption efforts through the project.

Brokerage's sale ends a local tale

Though the ink was still wet on their degrees from the University of Maryland law school, Sewell S. Watts Sr. and his friend William G. Baker Jr. decided their futures would be better spent in a bank than a courtroom.

Banking was not completely foreign to them. Watts was a bank teller while attending law school. Baker came from a well-known banking family in Frederick County. So on March 1, 1900, they hung out their shingle at Baltimore and South streets, starting a banking and investment house called Baker, Watts & Co. with $43,500 in mostly borrowed capital.

Four years later, that corner and much of downtown was devastated by the Great Baltimore Fire. Undeterred, they salvaged whatever papers they could and sought temporary space elsewhere.

NYMEX Announces Trading and Processing Schedule for Martin Luther King ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX) , today announced a complete trading and processing schedule for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (all in Eastern time):

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AEP Transmission Venture With Allegheny Files to Establish FERC Rate ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Electric Power today announced that Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline LLC, AEP's transmission joint venture with Allegheny Energy , has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish a transmission rate to recover costs for the approximately 290-mile, extra-high voltage transmission line that the companies propose to build from West Virginia into Maryland.

The companies are seeking a transmission cost-of-service formula rate, effective March 1, 2008, that will provide for annual updates to the amounts that PJM Interconnection (PJM), an independent regional transmission operator, will charge utilities to recover the costs of the project. The proposed rate includes recovery of a return on construction work in progress (CWIP) for the project and a return on equity of 14.3 percent, which includes an incentive award, consistent with federal policy to encourage significant transmission infrastructure and technology improvements.

Girls basketball all-league teams

F Elyse Bunger, Sr., North Sound Christian; G Lorissa Cultee, Sr., Lummi; F Melissa Castor, So., North Sound Christian; F Chelsey Graber, Sr., Highland Christian Prep.