Spotted Cat and Claude,
It is a great nickle chart. However, note the late year rise in inventories - and the June expiration date on my UMJ wts. Me thinks once again - buy the stock - skip the wts. One can be right as rain - and loose on the timing with options and warrants.
I know some prosper on Wts. - but my luck stinks.
Bob
PS: Zimbabwe news below - oh - if the world only spoke out against Mugabe as they do against Bush - why is it that way?
Fom Reuters
yahoo.reuters.com
NB (poundmaker comments) all three are Zim citizens, not outside $hit disturbers
Journalists leave Zimbabwe after police probe
Mon Feb 21, 2005 01:15 PM ET
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Three journalists who covered Zimbabwe for foreign media organisations have left the country after being grilled by police last week over allegations of breaking the country's tough media and security laws.
The departure of the three, confirmed by their organisations on Monday, leaves just a handful of foreign media groups represented in Zimbabwe ahead of a parliamentary election on March 31.
Angus Shaw of the Associated Press, Brian Latham of Bloomberg News and Jan Raath of the Times of London and German press agency DPA, all opted to leave Zimbabwe after police interviews last week which focused on investigations of possible espionage, working without proper accreditation and violation of Zimbabwe's strict currency laws.
No charges were brought and none of the men, all of whom are Zimbabwean citizens, was detained.
Editors and press colleagues in South Africa said all three had since left Zimbabwe, gearing up for the March election which the opposition says is heavily loaded in favour of President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party.
Times Africa bureau chief Jonathan Clayton said Raath and the two others, who worked from the same building, "had several days of harassment" before Raath decided to leave.
"He left because he was tipped off they were going to be arrested for alleged spying," Clayton told Reuters.
In his personal account published in South Africa's Independent on Sunday, Latham denied contravening Zimbabwe's media laws and questioned the real motive for the action.
"Nothing I ever reported was untrue or biased. Which is why they could never raise a legitimate charge against me and instead had to manufacture some silly allegations," he wrote.
Mugabe's government has passed a package of strict security and media laws which require journalists to register with a state-appointed media commission and bar foreigners from working permanently as correspondents in the country.
The laws, widely criticised by overseas press freedom advocates, have been used to target a number of independent journalists in Zimbabwe where the state media remains firmly in support of ZANU-PF.
Only a few foreign news organisations continue to have representatives in Harare, including Reuters, Agence-France Presse and Britain's Telegraph newspaper. |
