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This Week on StockHouse July 2 – 6

The official start of summer arrived in a trading week shortened by the U.S. and Canadian national holidays. Falcon Oil and Gas (TSX: V.FO) occupied the top Bullboard spot in this week’s Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19920 ). After this week’s takeover…

By Douglas A. McIntyre
Published July 7, 2007, 8:08am ET · 3 min read

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The official start of summer arrived in a trading week shortened by the U.S. and Canadian national holidays.

Falcon Oil and Gas (TSX: V.FO) occupied the top Bullboard spot in this week’s Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19920 ).

After this week’s takeover offer for copper producer Aur Resources (TSX: T.AUR), Buzz on the BullBoards reporter Sean Mason recorded the discussion on the HudBay Minerals (TSX: T.HBM) board, and found takeover talk (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19927 ) dominated the discussion.

For the inside scoop (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19925 ) about company meetings and conferences, look to the Horse’s Mouth, this week’s Best of the Blogs.

New columnist Matthew McCall profiled a China-based private education company (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19912 ) that he said was a growth story with big untapped middle class expansion prospects.

For investors who want to get through summer school quickly, the Investor U column by the Investor Education Fund had a cheat sheet for SEDAR (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19909 ), the Canadian investment document repository.

The Resource Report noted that a much-delayed feasibility study was the first step to production at a copper and cobalt project (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19906 ) operated by Baja Mining (TSX: T.BAJ).

While Danny Deadlock conceded in his Micro-cap Monday column that times have been tough for small-cap companies, and he chose to highlight the security technology company (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19910 ) Bioscrypt (TSX: T.BYT), because the share price has recently moved to the highs of the year.

As a follow-on to last week’s interview with Simtrol (OTC: BB: SMTRL), CEO Rick Egan, Institutional Research Partners presented a more detailed profile (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19913 ) of the company.

This week’s Wizard, Mike Paulenoff of MPTrader.com, said that the drop in the value of the greenback (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19914 ) was helping Japanese stocks and propping up gold prices.

Inexperienced traders often get burned when they misread a gap up (or down). In his Trading Discipline column, Don Rodgers argued that the successful trader allows the longer trend (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19916 ) to serve as a guide.

In the realm of economics, Steven Saville argued that people who profess their belief in free markets cannot logically support the idea of a central bank (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19918).

Merck’s (NYSE: MRK) troubles with its pain medication Vioxx (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19919 ) are the subject of numerous lawsuits. The Bio Checkauthors forecast that a new study would both show the risks were higherfor patients taking the drug, and that its long-term effects werenegligible.

A comparison of the small-cap S&P600 index against the most widely held consumer staples exchange tradedfund showed markets are set to move higher (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19921 ) in 2007, according to Technical Speculator author Donald Dony.

Resourcex Dispatches looked at a deal that created the latest mid-size Canadian diamond producer (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19924), and noted that Winfield Resources (TSX: V.WWF) had lined up debt financing for its proposed Libyan refineries (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19926 ).

After the launch of the iPhone (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19930 ) this week, the Totally Technology columnists are even more enthusiastic about the prospects for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).

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Douglas A. McIntyre

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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