 | | Thursday, July 28th, 2005 Baltimore, MD
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Missoula, MT | Nowhere To Go But Up |  - Nowhere to go but up: Cell phones
- Dr. Mark Wiley tells us how to never have a headache ever again
- Move over America... China and India want their share of the oil pie
- The Daily Energy Alert
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"America's relationship with China is a good relationship, but it's a complex relationship."
--George W. Bush |
Dear Wealth Daily reader:
 Here's a quick brain-buster for you:
Name one person you know, over the age of 18 and under 50, who doesn't have a cell phone.
Yeah, tell me about it. You can't do it. And if you were able to name somebody who doesn't have a cell phone, I guarantee it took you a few minutes to think about it, right?
It's understandable. There are 180 million cell phone users in the United States alone.
With that kind of market penetration, the cell phone companies have been making a killing on subscription services. especially because of their contract policies. And the competition between rival companies is hotter than ever.
Maybe you've notice this too. Every time I sign a new contract for cellular service, the subscription price goes down. In the great spirit of competition, cell phone companies are forced to lower subscription prices to keep existing customers and attracted new ones.
 But now the cell phone companies have hit bottom.
Subscription prices simply can not go any lower. So they must focus on different ways to compete against each other for customers.
One way they're doing this is by promising that their service has superior reception.
Recently, Cingular is running their "Allover Network; More Bars in More Places" campaign and Verizon has the "can you hear me now" guy.
Let's face it. A cell phone is only as good as its provider. Bad cell phone reception is something that has affected most every person who reads this article. I believe good reception is the most important feature a cell phone can have. And I know that there are some out there who agree with me. Each time I need a new cell phone I always ask around to see which company has the best reception.
 Behind all the hype and advertising schemes, premium cellular service is based on the quality and quantity of cellular antennas.
That's why the companies who hold these antennas are going to make a massive fortune over the next few years.
Companies like Global Signal Inc (GSL), SpectraSite Inc (SSI), Crown Castle International Corp (CCI), and American Tower Corp (AMT) all stand to make a huge profit within the coming years.
I know, James Cramer loves the tower business. He may be nuts, but this time he may also be right.
You see, cellular antennas are too expensive to build. It's much cheaper to lease space on existing antennas. If Cingular or Verizon really wants to provide their customers with a better reception, they'll have to go to these companies to lease space on there existing antennas.
Like anything else, as the demand for space increases so will the leasing cost.
None of us can look into the future. But we can speculate what to expect given our prior information. And my prior information tells me that the cell phone industry is a cash behemoth.
-Luke Burgess
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This Week's Edition of Health Daily:
Never Headache Again! A recent news study reported that "12 million Americans currently suffer from migraines or chronic headaches." Which is unfortunate, since nearly all migraines and headaches can be completely cured - and never return again, simply by following a few basic steps that Dr. Mark Wiley has discovered.
Forget Pain Management....Try Pain-None!
Editor's Note: In the coming weeks, our own optimal health professional and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Dr. Mark Wiley, will focus on the top 10 ailments of our time.
He'll address how to structure your life for optimum health and longevity with simple, easy-to-use techniques he's learned from his extensive training in Asia.
This week Dr. Wiley centers his discussion on chronic headaches and migraines. If you have any suggestions for topics, please feel free to contact brooke@wealthdaily.net. If you would like to receive up-to-the-minute health advice from Dr. Wiley and our other health experts, sign up for Health Daily, a free daily health e-letter.
Drug-Free Headache Relief:
Small Lifestyle Changes Could Conquer Your Pain
By Mark V. Wiley, OMD, PhD(AM)
For the 41 million Americans who suffer from headaches each year, powerful drugs-many with dangerous side effects-are the standard treatment. Fortunately, other options are available. But you probably won't hear about them from your medical doctor.
The first step is to consult your primary care physician to rule out an underlying medical cause, such as meningitis or a brain tumor. Then try my seven drug-free steps, which I created to treat my own chronic headaches. Most people start to see results by the end of the first week. If you can cut out all triggers, your headaches, including tension headaches and migraines, should be gone after two weeks.
1. Breathe Deeply
Most of us breathe shallowly. The resulting low oxygen levels force blood vessels to widen in an effort to allow more blood flow through them, which can cause headaches. To bring fresh air deep into your lungs, practice an abdominal breathing exercise three times daily.
What to do: Lie on your back, knees bent and feet flat on the floor about a foot away from your buttocks. Rest your low back on the floor. Inhale deeply, allowing your abdomen to rise. Exhale, fully expelling air from your lungs as you abdomen sinks. Repeat 12 times.
2. Drink Plenty of Water
Keeping well-hydrated helps cleanse the colon and flush the kidneys, clearing headache-inducing toxins from the body. Only water can do this-not caffeinated coffees and teas, herbal teas or sugary sodas and fruit drinks. However: Not all water is fit to drink. Tap water may contain heavy metals, chemical toxins or naturally occurring contaminants, so stick to bottled spring or filtered water.
What to do: Aim to drink two quarts of bottled or filtered water daily. This should keep your urine light-colored or clear.
3. Eliminate Food Triggers
Certain foods are well-known as headache triggers-alcohol (especially red wine).caffeine.dairy products.processed and preserved meats (cold cuts, beef jerky).dried fruits.food containing the amino acid tyramine (aged cheese, pickled foods).chocolate.and the sweetener aspartame.
What to do: Eliminate all suspected food triggers from your diet for two weeks. Add them back one at a time, waiting a day before adding each new one. If you develop a headache, eliminate the food indefinitely.
Also helpful: Eat smaller, frequent meals-a one-third-sized portion every three hours-to prevent headaches due to overeating and extreme blood sugar fluctuations. Take a daily multivitamin that includes the B vitamins, which help prevent headaches.
4. Flush Out Toxins
When we take in more chemicals from food, water and drugs than our bodies can handle, they build up (causing constipation) and interfere with proper functioning of the liver, colon and lungs. The result can be headaches.
What to do: Avoid constipation by eating more whole grains, fruits and vegetables and drinking plenty of water.
Also helpful: Fast up to four times a year to give your digestive system a rest. A fast typically lasts one to three days and includes only liquids-water.fresh, organic fruit or vegetable juices. and/or broth.
Important: You may experience a headache on the first or second day. Be patient, it will pass.
5. Tame Stress with Meditation
Stress is a potent headache trigger. It also provokes lifestyle choices that cause chronic headaches-eating unhealthful foods, drinking alcohol and/or caffeine and taking painkillers. To short-circuit the effects of stress, I practice mindfulness meditation.
What to do: Sit or lie with your spine straight and head aligned. Close your eyes and take a deep breath through your nose. Then focus on your breath as it passes into and out of your nose. Repeat a few times. If thoughts enter your mind, release them without passing judgement. Practice daily for at least 15 minutes.
6. Stay Active
Exercise reduces stress and improves blood flow, which helps prevent headaches. Recommended exercises.
Brisk walking: Set aside some time each day, preferably up to 30 minutes, to walk at a brisk pace. Keep your mind clear of stressful thoughts by focusing on your breathing or on the sensation of your big toe lifting off the ground.
Qigong standing: For this ancient Chinese exercise, which increases blood flow and strengthens muscles, stand with your legs shoulder-width apart and knees slightly bent. Bend both arms at the elbow, forming a 90-degree angle. Keep your forearms parallel to the ground, palms facing down. Visualize that your arms are floating on water. Quiet your mind by letting thoughts pass without judgement. Breathe at a steady pace. Perform for five minutes, working up to a total of 40 minutes.
What to do: Perform each exercise daily until your headaches stop. Then do one or the other each day as a preventative strategy.
7. Cultivate a Deep Sleep
To battle insomnia, eliminate caffeinated drinks after 6pm and keep a note pad by your bed. When your mind races with things that need to be done, write them down. This should make it easier to let them go until morning. Also, practice progressive relaxation at bedtime.
 What to do: While lying on your back with arms at your sides, inhale fully for four seconds and exhale for eight seconds. Repeat 10 times, then resume normal breathing. Mentally focus on the toes of one leg. Will each toes to relax, maintaining your focus until the toe relaxes-it may begin to tingle or feel numb. Then relax to sole, ankle, calf and so on up to the hips. Do the same with the other leg-and with each part of the body.
-Dr. Mark Wiley
Oil moves by China, India challenge U.S. Energy-hungry powers making deals with nations that are often hostile to America
By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press
VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Syria - nations shunned by America as nuclear threats, insurgent havens or human rights violators are increasingly being wooed by China and India in a race for oil and influence that is challenging Washington on the energy and security fronts.
The most recent U.S. concerns have focused on China's bid for Unocal Corp. Congressmen, senators and former CIA director James Woolsey have described it as a threat to U.S. national security.
But less high-profile maneuvers by the two Asian powerhouses also are raising questions. Besides their involvement in energy projects worth billions of dollars in countries America views with concern, India and China also have bought into Russia's oil and gas sector. And Beijing, with Moscow's apparent blessing, is reaching out to former Soviet republics in central Asia where the Americans have military outposts.
As their reach grows, the two countries are receiving more attention in Washington.
President Bush last week said America's relationship with China is "a good relationship, but it's a complex relationship." Bush also feted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in clear recognition of that country's growing significance.
Big energy push
The all-out energy offensive by the two Asian powers was documented this year by the National Intelligence Council, the U.S. government think thank that advises the Central Intelligence Agency and senior U.S. policy-makers.
"The likely emergence of China and India as new major global players ... will transform the geopolitical landscape," the report said. "In the same way that commentators refer to the 1900s as the American Century, the early 21st century may be seen as the time when some in the developing world, led by India and China, come into their own."
In Asia's former Soviet republics, such moves threaten to hurt U.S. interests by skewing alliances in a key part of the world on the doorstep of the oil-rich Caspian basin and also close to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Uneasy governments
The governments of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are questioning the need for a U.S. military toehold, established during the Afghanistan offensive.
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry last month said that other than for overthrowing Afghanistan's Taliban regime, "any other prospects for a U.S. military presence ... were not considered by the Uzbek side." And Kyrgyzstan's president, Kurmanek Bakiyev, recently said it was time to "begin discussing the necessity of the U.S. military forces' presence."
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional alliance led by China and Russia, this month called on the United States to set a date for withdrawing forces from the two ex-Soviet republics.
Strategic maneuvering has always been a part of world rivalries and most nations aren't that choosy - Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, remains crucial to Washington despite its human rights record. But the imperative of making friends with energy-rich nations has grown over the past two years as oil prices rise and consumption grows.
Hostile oil producers
Much of the oil - a third of world output - still is pumped by the Vienna-based Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose powerhouse is Saudi Arabia.
But billions of barrels of the world's reserves are in countries hostile to the United States such as Iran, where U.S. sanctions have locked out its oil companies. Billions more are in countries and regions with uncertain loyalties.
These countries "are a magnet for oil-hungry countries," says Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency.
Chinese oil demand now is second only to America's and within 20 years is it is expected to increase to 21 million barrels a day. That's what America consumes now - and most of it will be imported. India's oil consumption over the same period is expected to double to a daily 5.3 million barrels.
Klare says China's worries about U.S. dominance in the Persian Gulf, and the Straits of Hormuz through which the tankers pass, have hastened its rush for oil rights elsewhere.
Beijing is also casting a wider oil net because the U.S. presence in Iraq has derailed Chinese attempts to establish a toehold there.
Chinese and Indian investments in countries and regions of U.S. concern include:
- A 50 percent Chinese stake in the sprawling Yadavaran oil fields of Iran, which the United States accuses of trying to make nuclear weapons.
- Majority Chinese control in the consortium dominating the oil industry of Sudan, which once sheltered Osama bin Laden and whose government is accused of human rights abuses linked to massacres in the Darfur conflict.
- Chinese ownership of 60 percent of a major Kazakhstan oil and gas enterprise and plans to build a pipeline for Kazakh crude into China.
- India's multibillion-dollar project to pipe in Iranian gas via Pakistan, a plan criticized this month by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
- Billion-dollar investments by India's main oil and gas enterprise in far-flung projects that include Syria - accused by Washington of failing to prevent insurgents from crossing its border into Iraq and of suppressing democracy in Lebanon. India has also signed a pipeline deal with Myanmar's hard-line military junta.
- Chinese and Indian interest in Venezuela, the fourth-largest U.S. oil supplier, whose president, Hugo Chavez, is a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy. Chavez is trying to rewrite concessions to U.S. oil companies and has invited China and India to participate in oil exploration.
Beijing and New Delhi deny that their efforts constitute a threat to the United States.
No harm to others
Alluding to concerns about Iran, the Chinese Foreign Ministry told the Associated Press that "China's development of friendly relations with another country ... won't harm any other country's interests."
And Sanjaya Baru, media adviser to India's prime minister, says the pipeline is nothing more than a "bilateral issue between ... India and Iran."
Still, such alliances have resulted in some U.S. setbacks.
Washington is believed to have used its influence with Panama in past years to reduce Chinese access to the Panama Canal. But China last year signed a deal with Venezuela and Colombia for a pipeline to bypass the Panama Canal and ship Venezuelan oil directly to Colombia's Pacific outlets for loading onto Chinese tankers.
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Today's Action To Take: (FILLED POSITION)
Bought Dec Crude Oil 50 Puts (CLZ05 5000P) at 75 ($750 dollar value) Current Positions
(All orders are Good Till Canceled (GTC) unless otherwise indicated.) Crude Oil: Long Dec 50 Puts (CLZ05 5000P) at 75 ($750 dollar value) Heating Oil: Buy Oct 125 Puts (HOV05 12500P) at 105 Limit ($441 dollar value) Crude Oil: Long Sep 45 Puts (CLU05 4500P) at 49 ($490 dollar value) Unleaded Gas (HU) Extends Bounce
$1.71/1.72 Band To Cap Gains
Sights Set On $1.56 Low From Late June Though Unleaded Gas (HU) action has been whippy in recent sessions, the tone has been generally bullish.
Since the minor low was set on Jul 18, the market has steadily taken back over half of the drop from the $1.78 highs.
However, we do not look for the trade to extend the recent peaks as Smart Money has turned against the rally.
Over the last few days, Funds have started selling Unleaded Gas (HU). (See Smart Money Watch)
Individual Traders and Commercials are carrying the rally and history suggests this will not keep the spin favorable for long.
Following a test of the $1.71/1.72 band, we look for the weaker tone to return, with a test of the $1.56 low from June 30 expected.
$61.00/barrel To Cap Crude Rally
Crude Oil (CL) prices have been firmer over the last few days as the market works off oversold conditions. Prices briefly cracked the $57 low from Jun 30, before running back to the thick of the 7 week range. We look for the market to extend the rally, with corrective sights on the $60/61 band. However, Smart Money has been selling, despite the recent rally. In fact, Funds have been selling since the middle of the month. If the market was going to remain in the recent directionless mode, we would see a reduction in Funds selling, not an increase. As a result, the stage is set for a more protracted retreat in prices and the lows from May appear to be the likely target. Look for selling opportunities on the rally, with sights on the $50/51 band. We look for a test of this zone over the next few weeks.
Smart Money Watch
The Power Position Ratio (PPR) for Unleaded Gas (HU) Funds is currently -37. This means that Funds are selling and the degree of that selling comes in at 37, on a scale of 0 to 100. The gold Power bar graphic (top right) give you a quick reference as to the positions of Funds. A rating of -100, with all bars showing on the left-side of the graphic, would be the heaviest degree of selling. So, a rating of -37 is not too notable. Only a few bars are "lit up" and we classify it as, simply, "mild selling".
However, more can be taken from this reading when you look at the recent history of Fund positions. Look at the price chart on the left. The gold line below the price bars represents the history of PPRs for Funds in recent months. Notice how the PPR rises into positive territory in early June and remains above this throughout most of July. During this period prices have been, generally, stronger. During the latest action, though, prices have been rallying but Funds have been selling. You know this because the PPR for Funds has dropped into negative territory (selling) over the last few days. This tells you that Funds are selling into the recent rally
If you are bullish Unleaded Gas (HU), this is not what you want to see. Smart Money should be endorsing the rally, rather than selling into it. As a result we look for the upside to be limited, with a full resumption of the down move expected over the next few days.
Sincerely,
Michael Schaefer
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