Ten years ago, asensio.com reported on misleading statements made by Roy Carson aiding Crystallex International Corp.’s (AMEX: KRY $1.15) stock promotion that later failed. Ten years later, it seems Mr. Carson is still trying to […]
Feds Issue Timeout On Short Selling – National Public Radio
Today LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK $45.67) announced signing an agreement with GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR $10.76) to purchase polysilicon CVD reactors for $32 million. LDK will use the GT Solar equipment […]
Today LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK $48.74) made another questionable announcement concerning a supply agreement. LDK announced signing an agreement with Solartech Energy Corp. to supply 550 MW of silicon wafers over a five-year […]
Asensio’s LDK reports “have hardly tempered their scornful tone.” Kevin Kelleher The Street.com September 2, 2008
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK $50.85) today announced signing a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries. LDK made a nearly identical announcement on February 22nd. Today’s press release states that LDK signed a contract to […]
Veritas Investment Research, an independent equity research firm, issued an in-depth report on Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM $16.15) on August 20th. The report is the subject of at least three articles, which are included below. […]
Eric Sprott, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, continued to promote Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM $13.24) in an interview with Barron’s published August 18th, following the recent sharp decline in Timminco’s share price. To read the […]
An article on Stockwatch.com published August 14th states that Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $12.25) majority shareholder AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. made “false and misleading promotional claims” regarding Timminco’s planned $65 million capital expansion. (To […]
Sprott Asset Management was the second largest holder of Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $14.51) stock during 2007, when the share price increased 73-fold. As disclosed in an article from today’s Globe and Mail, Eric Sprott […]
On August 11th, Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM $12.25) released earnings for the quarter ended June 30th. Timminco’s share price then declined 38%, from $19.97 on August 11th to $12.25 on August 14th. Timminco’s production of […]
Hedge fund manager Francois Parenteau discusses his reasons for taking a short position in Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $21.23) stock in the July 31st edition of Value Investor Insight. Among the five reasons for Parenteau’s […]
Francois Parenteau, a Canadian hedge fund manager, has taken a short position in Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM $21.23), as he stated in an interview with Value Investor Insight published July 31. Parenteau discusses five reasons […]
An article in today’s New York Times states that the CEO of Freddie Mac, Richard F. Syron, was warned about the firm “financing questionable loans that threatened its financial health.” Mr. Syron told the New […]
An article published by Stockwatch.com on July 31st raises questions regarding Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $23.00) financing for the planned expansion of its Becancour Silicon plant. In February Timminco announced its plan to spend $65 […]
In the June edition of Photon International, Rene Boisvert, the head of Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $23.70) subsidiary Becancour Silicon, states that Timminco’s customers are “declining to return the more highly contaminated ingot tops and […]
In an article published by Stockwatch.com on July 2nd, the head of Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $23.56) silicon division, Rene Boisvert, responded to questions from asensio.com on the company’s silicon purification process. Stockwatch.com forwarded questions […]
Another notable short-seller who does his homework is Manuel Asensio. Asensio publicizes some of his research as an aspect of his business model… the research also serves a public interest, throwing light on various unsavory […]
SEC Slams Sinister Short-Sellers – Investment Value Digest Blog
A story in today’s Financial Post reports that Heinz Schimmelbusch, Chairman and CEO of Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM $23.94), faces accusations of “being compromised” in his role as an independent director of Russian company Norilsk […]
The Wizards of Short Selling – Business Week
Asensio helped define “activist investor.” Rick McRoskey The Wizards of Short-Selling BusinessWeek July 8, 2008
Robert Dietrich, Timminco Limited’s (TSX: C$27.37) CFO and executive vice-president for finance, would not confirm that Timminco or its subsidiary Becancour forced a silicon industry conference to cancel Asensio’s invitation, according to a story by […]
Timminco Won’t Face Questions at Silicon Industry Conference Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM $29.70) Becancour Silicon subsidiary and Q-Cells AG (XETRA: QCE $70.50) have stopped Manuel P. Asensio from attending an industry conference where a Becancour […]
Scientific Debate Gets Complicated – GreenTechMedia
Metallurgical silicon meets Demolition Man – Photon International Magazine
“The shorts I know, on the other hand, perhaps because they’re often falsely accused of spreading “rumor and innuendo”, bend over backwards to be open and factual. Think Bill Ackman on Farmer Mac and MBIA, […]
Yesterday Wedge Partners published a research report on Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM C$ 34.50). The analysts discovered that Canadian Solar “this year has imported only 3 tons of UMG from Timminco.” The research report states […]
An article titled “Trading in Timminco shares probed” in the Financial Post published today, reported that “sources said the Ontario Securities Commission and the Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET) — a group of capital-markets crime […]
Timminco Limited’s (TSX: TIM C$32.90) lawsuit has served to put into the public record opposing statements. The articles available below refer to claims that Timminco is “virtually worthless” and that “there is no evidence that […]
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