Asia's Leading Companies

The REVIEW 200 is an annual readership survey of the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine that ranks which companies in Asia best exemplify selected qualities of corporate leadership.

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Ranking of Nanotech stocks:
Percentage of increase since 24-November/3-December prices.

Symbol	Perfor mance		Theme
BIPH.OB	253%		nanomagnetic MRI shielding
PFCE.OB	145%		fuel cell carbo nanotubes
TINY	150%		Cap invest in nanotech
USGA.OB	117%		nanotech armor plate
NGEN	113%		key patent nano
CTT	87%		Hi risk -nanoparticle bone biomaterial
JMAR	107%		laser nano chipmaking spintronics
NANX	88%		nanocrystals nanomaterials
MFIC.OB	96%		nanoparticles microfluidizer equip
OBDCF.PK	63%		spintronics
ACO	60%		owns Nanocor plastic clay composite
NNOS.OB	47%		Nanosignal ATF
PCOP	45%		research
TGAL	51%		possible nano-etching technology
ELN	47%		hi risk
WEDX	38%		owns Nucryst - nanocrystaline metals
ROBE.OB	38%		particle nanocluster mfg process
ALTI	43%		-
SMMX	33%		research
NANO	31%		not nano microscale mfg losing
SPHRF.PK	31%		drug delivery
NPCT.OB	9%		electronics connection system Nanopierce
NVEC	19%		MRAM Josh Wolfe
AGNT	10%		nano purification & bioanalytical analy
FEIC	15%		Supplies advanced microscopy tools
NVMI	13%		possible nano-etch
HDWR	12%		hydrogen peroxide using nanocatalyst
HPQ	15%		molecular transistors & switches
GE	9%		Fort500 player nanoaluminum
NNPP.OB	3%		carbon nanotube nanoflat tv June04
VECO	8%		Supplies advanced microscopy tools
UTEK	5%		nanolithography
MDT	6%		Med equip maker may benefit
CBT	5%		Bought Superior MicroPowder
FLML	3%		French pharma nice pipln nanodrug delivr
DD	4%		Fort500 player
INTC	-1%		Fort500 player
IBM	5%		nano storage & nanotube transistors
SKYE	-6%		-

An interesting TASR report:

From the Rubin Investment Group.

One way bet: gold, up.

That is what says Dr. Steve Sjuggerud:

"Fortunately, the Fed is not hiking rates, and with the recent (reported) inflation numbers at 40-year lows, it doesn't appear that Greenspan will raise rates for a while.

Mainstream investors still aren't (though perhaps not for much longer): gold.

With interest rates close to zero, gold actually poses competition to paper money...

When given a choice between government-printed paper money paying 5% interest, and gold paying no interest, most folks take the paper money - they figure it's a risk worth taking.

But when the government-printed paper money pays no interest, and the government behind the money is in debt somewhere between $80,000 and $400,000 per household in America, then gold looks more attractive.

Right now, the government does not look likely to raise interest rates in the near term. And based on that, gold will continue to be a one-way bet - up!

The "one-way bet" is a simple idea... if inflation is dead, the government will print money to create inflation (really to prevent deflation), causing the price of gold to rise. And if inflation appears, gold will rise even more, as the dollar continues to fall, until the Fed seriously starts hiking interest rates multiple times.

There is plenty of room for gold to move higher, even though it has already moved significantly. Triple-digit gains are still possible."