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52-week Date Mar. 30 Mar. 27 Mar. 26 Mar. 25 Mar. 24 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 945.20 961.02 974.02 949.04 924.29 2735.30 678.62 TSX Composite 8596.22 8821.06 8995.50 8797.44…

Date Mar. 30 Mar. 27 Mar. 26 Mar. 25 Mar. 24 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 1207/1245 1211/1250 1250/1280 1205/1240 1215/1…

Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15/09 (with changes from Feb. 28/09).

Note: Alcoa will pay $0.9375* on its $3.75* cmltv pr sh on Apr 1, rec Mar 13. Vale will payu $0.4795 for all shares on Apr 30 and Oct 30. Anglo American has suspended its dividend which totals $0.44* …

Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15/09 (with changes from Feb. 28/09).

as of 9 a. m. ET. March 31, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 0.75 Target overnight rate 0.50 Canadian Prime 2.50 U. S. Discount Primary 0.50 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime…

Featured Fund: CIBC precious metals as of 01/31/09 (in weighted order): Kinross Gold, Agnico-Eagle Mines, Goldcorp, Barrick Gold, Randgold Resources, Yamana Gold, Newmont Mining, Compania Minas Buenav…

Australia (A$) March 31 March 24 Change Bendigo Mining 0.25 0.23 0.02 Kingsgate Cons. 5.22 5.00 0.22 Lion Selection Ltd 1.04 0.93 0.11 Newcrest Mining 32.73 33.06 -0.33…

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Mar. 30 Mar. 27 Mar. 26 Mar. 25 Mar. 24 US$ in C$ 1.2590 1.2392 1.2330 1.2245 1.2262 C$ in US$ 0.7943 0.5070 0.8110 0.8167 0…

12-MONTH STOCK EXC BID ASK LAST HIGH LOW Agau Res V 0.03 0.12 0.05 0.25 0.02 Alder Res V 0.13 0.20 0.12 0.44 0.05 Aldrin Res V 0.09 0.18 0.17 0.49 0.07 Amer…