As we enter a new year, we marvel at the mass media for once again missing the boat when it comes to investment news stories for 2006.According to the mass media, the Dow breaking into a new high was the story or the year. The Dow was up 14.7% last year which was an excellent year for the index. But uranium was up almost 100% (97%) last year. We have had a number of readers ask us why we are not more heavily invested in the mainstream markets; our answer is that we prefer 100% gains to 14.7% gains.

Amazing at it may seem, the fact that uranium has jumped up over 600% in 3 years, you would think that the main stream investors and media would take notice. But to date, we have seen very little in the way of coverage of this amazing bull market. The fact that uranium has not had one pull back in this entire run, and there is virtually no media coverage tells us that we are still very early in this bull market.

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During the past 15 years, International Living magazine has calculated its Annual Global Retirement Index; a resource intended to assist retirees and future retirees in evaluating and comparing the world’s most popular retirement destinations. It is based on a number of criteria, giving various weights to each, depending on its importance to retirees. Listed below are those criteria considered with their individual weighting:

• Cost of Living-20%
• Health Care-20%
• Special Benefits-20%
• Real Estate-15%
• Entertainment, Recreation, and Culture-10%
• Climate-5%
• Safety and Stability-5%
• Infrastructure-5%

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Dubai is the first country in the United Arab Emirates that ventured away from oil as its main source of income. Today oil contributes only 6% of the nation’s GDP. Dubai has steadily and determinedly worked on transforming itself from an oil rich country into an important trade center and business port. It has done several things to attract western investors, both individuals and corporations, to set up shop there. Dubai is also the biggest banking and financial market in that area.

Besides business, Dubai has also worked hard to attract tourists and continues to develop on the theme to provide increasing number of options in terms of accommodations and also activities. There are some truly stunning resorts that have been and are being built in Dubai to attract tourists and business visitors. There are specific zones free zones in the city that have been set up to attract specific industries. Many international conglomerates like IBM, Oracle, CNN, Reuters, and Microsoft have substantial presence in Dubai.

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The measure of success – the difference between a killer website design and a standard, ho-hum website design, is the WOW factor. When someone looks at your website do you want them to say, “gee, that really looks nice.’ Or do you want them to say, “Wow!” There are 7 different steps in helping you command the WOW factor.

The Concept

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Whether you’re putting up pay-per-click ads or sending promo emails or newsletters, your goal is to get your readers purchase your product or register for a service. These ads and newsletters, which contain links to your website, serve as a bridge between the user and your main web pages. However, many readers are disappointed when they found out that the page in which they were bridged into does not contain any useful information at all.

What makes a good landing page? I will be giving you valuable tips on how to create a landing page that can make your sales soar high.

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So why do you want a website? Would you like to create a personal page to tell the world who you are and what you dream for? Or maybe you have a large family, with members living in different parts of the world and you’d like to keep the family together at least online. What about making a living online or promoting your business? No matter the reasons, here are a few tips that will help you create a professional website.

1. Design a website focused on a particular topic and then carefully categorize its contents. If it’s a family site keep it to the subject and don’t mess it up with unrelated issues. If it’s a business site and you sell flowers, don’t put in web design services, escort services and so on.

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Major investments were being made on high rise condo projects on the Las Vegas Strip. Today comes word from the Las Vegas Review Journal that Fountainebleau Resorts has secured $4 billion dollars in financing to complete their $2.9 billion Fountainebleau Las Vegas, currently under construction at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and the Riviera. The Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and Barclays are some of the financial institutions involved in the deal.

I’m thinking analysts at these major institutions probably know a lot more about the potential Las Vegas holds than does the national media, who continue to write articles behind their desks 2000 miles away saying how overvalued Las Vegas is.

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Molybdenum: Old and New Infrastructure

It’s not just new and replacement pipelines, which might create an avalanche of demand for the silvery metal. Molybdenum’s applications are wide, diverse and expanding. The metal is used in paint pigments, lubricants, catalysts and prosthetic legs; the radioisotope Molybdenum-99 is used in cancer treatment. Six-percent molybdenum is also used in stainless steel (S31254) for higher pressure piping in more than 30 desalination plants (sea water reverse osmosis) now operating in ten countries. As abrupt climate change impacts fresh water supplies, a great demand for desalination plants could emerge.

Because of the nuclear energy renaissance, condensers in the hundreds of planned and proposed nuclear power plants may need up to one million meters of four- to six-percent molybdenum stainless steel. The number of power plants under construction, planned or proposed rises weekly or monthly, and now approaches nearly 300. Aging U.S. reactors could require replacement over the next two decades. About 30 new reactors are in various stages of being moved forward in the United States. Not all will be of the size requiring a vast quantity of molybdenum, but sufficient growth in the nuclear sector should firm demand for the metal.

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