This was published on July 10/09.......might partly explain some of Clarus' new found interest.

TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Clarus Securities Inc. has bolstered its equity-research ranks, adding Robert Mantse to cover metal stocks for the small, Toronto-based dealer.

The multilingual analyst has previously covered mining and steel stocks for Alfa-Bank in Moscow as well as doing stints at Salomon Smith Barney, and in the New York office of WestLB AG. In Canada, Mantse, who has covered more than 75 mining and metals companies based in North and South America, Africa, Europe and Russia during his career of more than 10 years, worked as a debt analyst for Dominion Bond Rating Service, a debt-rating agency.

Clarus's hiring of Mantse follows the dealer's hiring earlier this week of institutional salesman Brentwood Strasler.

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